{"id":1398873,"date":"2022-03-24T15:45:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T19:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1398873"},"modified":"2022-03-24T15:45:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T19:45:16","slug":"law-professor-kbjs-vague-judicial-philosophy-leaves-door-open-for-expansion-of-governmental-power-erosion-of-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/law-professor-kbjs-vague-judicial-philosophy-leaves-door-open-for-expansion-of-governmental-power-erosion-of-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"Law Professor: KBJ&#039;s Vague &#039;Judicial Philosophy&#039; Leaves Door Open for Expansion of &#039;Governmental Power,&#039; Erosion of &#039;Liberty&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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%2Flaw-professor-kbjs-vague-judicial-philosophy-leaves-door-open-for-expansion-of-governmental-power-erosion-of-liberty%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=1398873&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><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Jennifer Mascott, an associate professor of law at George Mason University\u2019s Antonin Scalia Law School, warned on Wednesday that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson\u2019s refusal to clearly embrace the judicial philosophy of originalism raises concerns about the Supreme Court nominee\u2019s possible reluctance to apply constitutional limitations on government power if confirmed to America\u2019s highest court.<\/p>\n<p>Mascott was invited by Republicans to offer her analysis during the Senate Judiciary Committee\u2019s confirmation hearings for Brown, President Joe Biden\u2019s Supreme Court nominee.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>She said, \u201cWhen asked about judicial philosophy, Judge Jackson has declined to identify express commitment to a particular philosophy, instead focusing on a multi-step interpretive method, highlighting the steps she had taken deciding cases, such as looking at briefs, the factual record, congressional intent, purpose, and precedents.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Mascott noted how Brown\u2019s ambiguous subscription to originalism and textualism may provide the judge with a jurisprudential ideology of \u201cflexibility\u201d relative to Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney\u00a0<span>Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and the late Antonin Scalia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s challenging to definitely discern or predict a jurist\u2019s future methodological approach in the Supreme Court on the basis of service on a federal district court, but hesitance to commit to a particular judicial philosophy could leave flexibility for incorporation of various interpretive approaches during Supreme Court service,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She concluded, \u201cThe interpretation of law consistent with originalism and textualism as traditionally applied is important to maintain limits on governmental power and to preserve liberty.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Mascott, an associate professor of law at George Mason University\u2019s Antonin Scalia Law School, warned on Wednesday that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson\u2019s refusal to clearly embrace the judicial philosophy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1398873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}