Judging Freedom - Supreme Court nominee - Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson_

Episode Date: February 25, 2022

President Biden’s reported Supreme Court nominee is a conventionally qualified judge with a strong background in criminal justice reform.#supremecourt #Biden #SCOTUSSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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the Supreme Court of the United States. Who is Judge Jackson? Well, Judge Jackson obviously is the president's choice. President Obama put Judge Jackson, a Harvard law graduate, on the federal district court, the trial court in Washington, D.C., and President Biden himself, here's my little Chris, President Biden himself put her on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. So she was just vetted by the FBI and by the Senate Judiciary Committee less than a year ago when she was promoted from the trial court, the district court, to the appellate court, the circuit court. She is a liberal Democrat, no surprise. She is a gifted legal scholar, and she brings a couple of traits that's Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Justice Jackson was a, or Judge Jackson was a public defender in Washington, D.C.,

and represented many criminal defendants. She was also a member of the United States Sentencing Commission. She actually shares the views of President Donald Trump, that sentences are too harsh and that there are too many people in federal prison that really don't believe there because they are there for victimless crimes, crimes that are crimes on paper only, because a Victorian-era Congress decided that something like, for example, the personal use of marijuana, which is legal in 37 states, somehow warranted a lengthy prison sentence. She replaces Justice Stephen Breyer, a liberal Democrat. So a 51-year-old liberal Democrat will be replacing an 83-year-old liberal Democrat. I think her voting record would probably be comparable to

Justice Breyer's. But to all my libertarian friends, which is probably the vast majority of you watching and listening now, there's a silver lining to this cloud. Justice Jackson on civil liberties issues is one of us. She is a civil libertarian. She is excellent on the rights of criminal defendants, on the Fourth Amendment, and on surveillance. So a little bit of a surprise, I think, once she's on the court and those cases come. You might see her agreeing with my friend Justice Neil Gorsuch more than she'd be agreeing with Chief Justice John Roberts. Judge Napolitano, judging freedom.