How Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson could restore the Supreme Court's credibility
There’s been no lack of comment lately on the public’s diminishing confidence in one of the cornerstone institutions of our democracy.public’s diminishing confidence in the Supreme Court, one of the cornerstone institutions
The court is charged with deciding contentious, difficult issues that Americans can’t settle in any other dispute-resolution mechanism in our society. The court decides high-profile issues like abortion and voting rights, but it is also charged with defining criminal conduct, the rights of suspects, how business is conducted and how much power the federal government has. And the court doesn’t have an army to enforce its decisions. It relies on the public’s willingness to abide by them.
For one, she would be the first justice since Thurgood Marshall to have experience as a criminal defense lawyer. She worked in the public defender’s office in the District of Columbia and is familiar with the defense perspective, a tremendous addition for a court that today includes only former prosecutors. She has a close family member who was sentenced to life in prison for a nonviolent cocaine conviction.
Her work with the sentencing commission, which shepherds the guidelines used by federal judges in criminal cases, gives her unique insight.
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