{"id":1356509,"date":"2022-03-03T04:47:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T09:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1356509"},"modified":"2022-03-03T09:52:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T14:52:59","slug":"who-is-ketanji-brown-jackson-everything-you-need-to-know-about-bidens-scotus-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/who-is-ketanji-brown-jackson-everything-you-need-to-know-about-bidens-scotus-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Ketanji Brown Jackson? Everything You Need To Know About Biden\u2019s SCOTUS Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwho-is-ketanji-brown-jackson-everything-you-need-to-know-about-bidens-scotus-pick%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1356509&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/Readers-Pass-Johnson-Everything-You-Need-To-Know-About-Ketanji-Brown-Jackson16x9.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/joe-biden-to-nominate-ketanji-brown-jackson-to-supreme-court-report\">selected<\/a> Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. Progressive legal groups hailed the nomination as a groundbreaking historical first, while conservatives say Jackson is a judicial activist who will substitute her own views for those of the Founding Fathers. Ketanji Brown Jackson has worked as a lawyer in private practice supporting the abortion lobby, served as a public defender, and helped lead a federal board that reduced sentences for criminals.<\/p>\n<p>Who is Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, how has she ruled, and what does she believe? Here are the facts you need to know.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ketanji Brown Jackson\u2019s views on controversial issues<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abortion<\/strong>: Ketanji Brown Jackson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2022\/02\/profile-of-a-potential-nominee-ketanji-brown-jackson\/\">represented<\/a>\u00a0NARAL Pro-Choice America, the League of Women Voters, and the Abortion Access Project of Massachusetts during her time in Boston\u2019s Goodwin Procter law firm. In 2001, she helped <a href=\"https:\/\/casetext.com\/case\/mcguire-v-reilly-7\">write<\/a> an <em>amicus <\/em>brief supporting a Massachusetts law that barred pro-life advocates from setting foot within six feet of any individual or vehicle that is within 18 feet of an abortion facility. Jackson\u2019s record has earned her the fierce opposition of female leaders in the pro-life movement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect her to be a reliable vote for the far left and the Biden administration\u2019s radical abortion agenda,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/marchforlife.org\/\">March for Life<\/a> president Jeanne Mancini.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have no doubt she will work with the most pro-abortion administration in history to enshrine abortion on demand nationwide in the law,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/sba-list.org\/\">Susan B. Anthony List<\/a> president Marjorie Dannenfelser. \u201cWith the Court\u2019s decision in <em>Dobbs<\/em> expected this summer, the stakes have never been higher in the fight to protect unborn children and their mothers and let the people decide this issue through their elected representatives, not unelected judges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crime<\/strong>: Ketanji Brown Jackson served as vice chairman of the U.S. Sentencing Commission during the Obama administration. In April 2014, the commission propounded the \u201cDrugs Minus Two\u201d rule, which lowered the punishment for all drug-related crimes by two offense levels. The rule, which applied to an estimated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarshallproject.org\/2015\/07\/23\/federal-prisons-could-release-1-000-times-more-drug-offenders-than-obama-did\">46,000<\/a> convicts, allowed judges to reduce convicts\u2019 drug sentences <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ussc.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/pdf\/amendment-process\/materials-on-2014-drug-guidelines-amendment\/20140724_FAQ.pdf\">by an average of two years and one month<\/a>. \u201cThe result of the Sentencing Commission\u2019s proposal will be to reward drug traffickers and distributors who possessed a firearm, committed a crime of violence, or had prior convictions,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2015\/07\/22\/thousands-of-violent-felons-to-be-released-in-november-under-new-sentencing-guidelines\/\">wrote<\/a> Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and then-Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) at the time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Immigration<\/strong>: In September 2019, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/show_public_doc?2019cv2369-40\">120-page ruling<\/a> (<em>Make the Road New York v. McAleenan<\/em>) that the Trump administration could not expand its use of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2019\/09\/28\/judge-blocks-trump-fast-track-deportations-007717\">expedited removal<\/a>\u201d: that it could not fast-track the deportation of illegal aliens who had been in the country less than two years. Jackson ruled that the Trump administration should have considered the \u201cpotentially serious implications\u201d its order would have on illegal aliens and not merely focus on \u201cthe perceived shiny bright spots\u201d of the policy.<\/p>\n<p>She also said the administration did not hold a public comment period on the policy, it had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2019\/09\/28\/judge-blocks-trump-fast-track-deportations-007717\">effectively<\/a> engaged in \u201cdecision making by Ouija board or dart board, rock\/paper\/scissors, or even the Magic 8 Ball.\u201d The D.C. Circuit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cadc.uscourts.gov\/internet\/opinions.nsf\/F398C868A41E007D85258590004E10B3\/$file\/19-5298-1848499.pdf\">overturned<\/a> her decision. Immigration and Nationality Act Section 237 (a)(1)(B) explicitly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fairus.org\/issue\/border-security\/illegal-immigration-crime\">states<\/a>, \u201cAny alien who is present in the United States in violation of this Act or any other law of the United States is deportable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Funding teen sex programs<\/strong>: When the Trump administration cut off $200 million in federal funding to the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, which teaches <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-cuts-funding-teen-pregnancy-programs-left-paul-bois\">children as young as 10 to use condoms<\/a> and other contraceptives without emphasizing abstinence, Judge Jackson <a href=\"https:\/\/casetext.com\/case\/healthy-futures-texas-v-dept-of-health-human-servs\">ruled<\/a> that the funding must continue. In April 2018, Judge Jackson questioned the right of the elected leaders to deny grant recipients and \u201csuddenly say \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/the-real-reason-president-trump-is-constantly-losing-in-court\/2019\/03\/19\/f5ffb056-33a8-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html\">too bad, so sad<\/a>.\u2019\u201d She called the Trump administration\u2019s argument that the government should be able to determine who receives government grants \u201cweird\u201d before ordering the funding be restored.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Government bureaucracy and labor unions<\/strong>: In 2018, President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/hiring-retention\/2018\/05\/what-changes-and-doesnt-under-trumps-new-employee-removal-executive-order\/\">issued<\/a> three executive orders that would reduce the power of public sector unions and make it easier to fire employees for poor performance. They also ordered employees to spend at least 75% of their time on \u201cagency business.\u201d Trump limited the use of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/budget-and-spending\/commentary\/trump-cracking-down-wasted-time-and-money-the-va\">official time<\/a>,\u201d which allows government bureaucrats to use government resources to conduct union business during working hours, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/jobs-and-labor\/commentary\/trump-executive-orders-are-surprisingly-popular-federal-employees\">at taxpayers\u2019 expense<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He also said the government would not negotiate with labor unions on issues where it was not legally required to do so. In August 2018, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/show_public_doc?2018cv1261-58\">119-page decision<\/a> eviscerating those orders, denying most of Trump\u2019s actions (<em>American Federation of Government <\/em><em>Employees v. Trump<\/em>). She admitted that, while Trump\u2019s action did not \u201cspecifically and directly conflict with individual statutory prescriptions\u201d (i.e., he did not violate the law), it so \u201cdiminishes the scope of bargaining\u201d that, it seemed to Jackson, Trump\u2019s orders are no longer \u201ca good-faith effort.\u201d The D.C. Court of Appeals once again <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cadc.uscourts.gov\/internet\/opinions.nsf\/81BFA36379FFE7A185258439004F8C8A\/$file\/18-5289-1797318.pdf\">overturned<\/a> Jackson\u2019s decision, ruling that Jackson lacked jurisdiction to rule on the case.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cadc.uscourts.gov\/internet\/opinions.nsf\/7B60B8352A5EE0A9852587DC00533AA7\/$file\/20-1396-1933161.pdf\">first appellate opinion<\/a>, issued in February on behalf of a three-judge panel, compelled government agencies to negotiate working conditions with labor unions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Judge Ketanji <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/biden-taps-ketanji-brown-jackson-for-supreme-court-11645797644\">Onyika<\/a> Brown Jackson was born in Washington, D.C., on September 14, 1970, and raised in Miami. The 51-year-old is related by marriage to former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI), who introduced her during her 2012 confirmation hearings to the federal bench. She earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in government and her law degree from Harvard. From 1999 to 2000, she clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer, whom she would replace if she is confirmed. She is married to Georgetown surgeon Patrick Jackson and has two daughters, Talia and Leila.<\/p>\n<p>President Barack Obama named Jackson to the federal bench in 2012, and the Senate approved her nomination by a voice vote in March 2013. She authored <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/biden-taps-ketanji-brown-jackson-for-supreme-court-11645797644\">more than 550 opinions<\/a>, which were <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/us-law-week\/circuit-pick-jacksons-reversals-a-likely-target-for-senate-gop\">frequently overturned<\/a> on appeal. President Obama interviewed her for the 2016 Supreme Court vacancy but settled on Merrick Garland.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden nominated Jackson to take Garland\u2019s seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in March 2021. The nomination marked her as a likely Supreme Court nominee, as Justices Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, former justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia, as well as Chief Justice John Roberts, had all served on the D.C. circuit. The U.S. Senate confirmed Jackson to the appeals court last June 14 by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_votes\/vote1171\/vote_117_1_00231.htm#position\">53-44 vote<\/a>. Three Republicans \u2014 Susan Collins of Maine, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska \u2014 voted to confirm Jackson. Jackson wrote her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/bench-memos\/judge-ketanji-brown-jacksons-first-appellate-opinion\/\">first appeals court decision<\/a>\u00a0last month.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Biden kept his campaign promise to name the first black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court, a pledge that proved pivotal to winning the support of Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) during the South Carolina primary. Although Clyburn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-clyburn-floating-south-carolina-judge-for-future-scotus-vacancy\">preferred<\/a> the more moderate J. Michelle Childs, a South Carolina native, Jackson has other \u201cfans within the Congressional Black Caucus, the influential group of lawmakers who also has the president\u2019s ear,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/02\/23\/who-is-ketanji-brown-jackson-bio-facts-background-political-views-00010970\">according<\/a> to Politico. Jackson was also on the <a href=\"https:\/\/demandjustice.org\/supreme-court-shortlist\/\">short list<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/demand-justice\/\">Demand Justice<\/a>, which has been called a \u201cliberal dark money\u201d group and is focused on packing the nation\u2019s courts with judicial activists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the intended nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson, Joe Biden has made it clear that his top priority is paying back the left-wing dark money network that spent over one billion dollars to help elect him and Senate Democrats,\u201d said Carrie Severino, the president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/judicialnetwork.com\/\">Judicial Crisis Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Competence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Judge Jackson\u2019s supporters point to her Ivy League education, recent bipartisan confirmation, and experience on the bench as proof she is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/content\/dam\/aba\/administrative\/government_affairs_office\/webratingchart-117.pdf\">well qualified<\/a>.\u201d But many others question Jackson\u2019s abilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople on the right don\u2019t think Brown Jackson is stellar intellectually,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/feb\/11\/conservatives-target-judge-brown-jackson-worst-cho\/\">said<\/a> Curt Levey, president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/committeeforjustice.org\/\">Committee for Justice<\/a>. Ed Whelan, who holds the Antonin Scalia Chair in Constitutional Studies at the <a href=\"https:\/\/eppc.org\/\">Ethics and Public Policy Center<\/a>, said that \u201cJackson is not highly regarded as a judge\u201d and has \u201ca middling reputation. This criticism, I\u2019ll emphasize, is on grounds of quality, not ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republicans will have to contend with remarks from then-Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/26\/us\/politics\/ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court.html\">called<\/a>\u00a0Jackson (whose husband is the twin brother of Ryan\u2019s brother-in-law) \u201cclearly qualified\u201d and \u201can amazing person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prospects of confirmation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jackson appears to face little or no Democratic opposition inside the evenly divided Senate, even from its more centrist members. Before Jackson\u2019s nomination, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), who calls himself \u201cpro-life,\u201d has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/everything-joe-manchin-has-said-about-bidens-supreme-court-nomination-1674984\">said<\/a> he is \u201canxious\u201d to fill the Supreme Court vacancy, even with someone \u201cmore liberal than me,\u201d provided the nominee has \u201ca sound thought process.\u201d Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) has also <a href=\"https:\/\/kyma.com\/news\/2022\/02\/25\/politicians-comment-on-judge-ketanji-brown-jacksons-nomination-for-supreme-court\/\">signaled<\/a> her openness to voting for Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) has said he plans to confirm Brown before the Senate\u2019s Easter break in April.<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives continue to warn against the dangers of confirming Judge Jackson to the Supreme Court. \u201cShe is by all accounts a liberal judge. I think she\u2019s the choice of the radical Left,\u201d said former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden is selecting a judicial activist for the Supreme Court,\u201d said Kelly Shackelford of the <a href=\"https:\/\/firstliberty.org\/\">First Liberty Institute<\/a>. \u201cHer record from the beginning of her career shows hostility to religious liberty, free speech, and other constitutional rights. The American people do not want a liberal extremist on the Supreme Court. If confirmed, Judge Jackson\u2019s judicial activism will place the constitutional rights of all Americans in jeopardy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden selected Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. 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