Ketanji Brown Jackson will not only be the first black woman, she will be the first former public defender to be the Judge of the Supreme Court of the USA
she will be the first person to have defended criminal defendants and people charged with criminal offences, the founder of the legal defence fund, and the first black associate justice.
she now stands in line with people who helped to diversify the ideology and professional experiences of the court. and her arrival could not be more welcomed at this moment when we are deeply challenged by what the court represents and the integrity and the crisis of confidence that the public has in the court. it has the lowest approval ratings we have known in modern history.
It is hoped that she will change the alchemy of the court in some ways and she will be a stabilizing agent at the centre of the court and along with some of the other justices who are Believed to have a more rational view of how to interpret the constitution and fundamental rights.
it’s strange to see one justice pass the torch to another one. usually, we have a long gap.
one minute Stephen Breyer was justice Breyer and as soon as she took the second only, he was no longer a justice and she became a justice. this sort of fast handover of the reigns.
it does give her the chance to spend all summer getting prepared for the cases. that’s something that a lot of justices, for example, Stephen Breyer, did not have that opportunity.
they were not justices until just before the term started. she will have all summer to get accustomed to the place.
The USA have at least 17 cases where election deniers are running for governor or secretary of state in league with Republican state legislatures.
