Is Ketanji Brown Jackson very liberal?

[David Hume]

I was under the impression that Kruger is more moderate than KBJ. We know Kruger is moderate on criminal justice. But is there any solid evidence that KBJ is more liberal?

She was (likely intentionally) omitted by DemandJustice's first short list. She had served on the board of a very religious school.

According to
https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/supreme-court-candidate-ketanji-brown-jackson/

"The only plausible explanation I can come up with for why Demand Justice did not have Jackson on its initial list is that it was alarmed by her service as an advisory school board member for the Montrose Christian School in Rockville, Maryland, before she became a judge. The school is now defunct. But as I documented five years ago, the school’s website (now also defunct; Wayback Machine link from June 21, 2011) proclaimed that the Montrose Christian School provides “Christ-centered education for the glory of the Savior and the good of society.” In addition to a statement of the truths that “[w]e uncompromisingly hold,” the school directed the reader to the “fuller understanding of what we believe” on the Montrose Baptist Church’s website. That fuller statement of beliefs (Wayback Machine link from Feb. 18, 2010) included these forthright propositions (emphasis added):

Man is the special creation of God, made in His own image. He created them male and female as the crowning work of His creation. The gift of gender is thus part of the goodness of God’s creation . . . .

All Christians are under obligation to seek to make the will of Christ supreme in our own lives and in human society. . . . In the spirit of Christ, Christians should oppose racism, every form of greed, selfishness, and vice, and all forms of sexual immorality, including adultery, homosexuality, and pornography. We should work to provide for the orphaned, the needy, the abused, the aged, the helpless, and the sick. We should speak on behalf of the unborn and contend for the sanctity of all human life from conception to natural death. Every Christian should seek to bring industry, government, and society as a whole under the sway of the principles of righteousness, truth, and brotherly love.…

Marriage is the uniting of one man and one woman in covenant commitment for a lifetime. It is God’s unique gift to reveal the union between Christ and His church and to provide for the man and the woman in marriage the framework for intimate companionship, the channel of sexual expression according to biblical standards, and the means for procreation of the human race.

The husband and wife are of equal worth before God, since both are created in God’s image. The marriage relationship models the way God relates to His people. A husband is to love his wife as Christ loved the church. He has the God-given responsibility to provide for, to protect, and to lead his family. A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ. She, being in the image of God as is her husband and thus equal to him, has the God-given responsibility to respect her husband and to serve as his helper in managing the household and nurturing the next generation.

Children, from the moment of conception, are a blessing and heritage from the Lord."

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

When was the first shortlist? If it was before just now I can imagine she wasn’t on the list because she wasn’t a circuit judge yet.

[Greedo punched first]

She’s probably more conservative than Thomas and Alito are liberal.

[politicallefty]

It seems to me like a hit job from the National Review, not that the White House is likely paying attention to them. All I can say is that you should be careful what you wish for. For all we know, President Biden might pull one completely out of left field and nominate someone around the age of then-Judge Clarence Thomas (43 years of age). Liberals may be in the minority right now, but the Supreme Court is always the long game.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

She's from the 9th Circuit Cruz is on the Judicial Committee and Rs will stonewall Kruger if she is nominated

[Thank you for being a friend...]

idk it's never too late to choose a non-black person or a man that's really, really good.  What about Jacquline Nguyen?  Or Carlton Reeves?  Or even a white dude that's actually going to be a great Supreme Court Justice?

And if ya want to do right by a black woman, my god  - you could have supported Anita Hill, Grandpa.  But ya didn't.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

The cat is out of the House it's HON MICHELLE CHILDS

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

It seems that the GOP wants it to be Kruger, so I’d assume so.

[brucejoel99]

It seems to me like a hit job from the National Review, not that the White House is likely paying attention to them. All I can say is that you should be careful what you wish for. For all we know, President Biden might pull one completely out of left field and nominate someone around the age of then-Judge Clarence Thomas (43 years of age). Liberals may be in the minority right now, but the Supreme Court is always the long game.

To think that there were only as many conservatives on the Court following Thomas' confirmation as there are liberals on it today. If Biden looks close to home & nominates Delaware Supreme Court Associate Justice Tamika Montgomery-Reeves (40 years old), then with a little luck, she could very well be heading up the next liberal majority before she's even 70.

[brucejoel99]

When was the first shortlist? If it was before just now I can imagine she wasn’t on the list because she wasn’t a circuit judge yet.

DemandJustice's first shortlist was this 32-person lineup that they put out in Oct. 2019 during the Democratic primaries. For a list that significantly touts its hyping-up of women, people of color, & public defenders, the apparent exclusion of KBJ is a bit notable, given that this list was released more than 3-&-a-1/2 years after KBJ was one of only 2 women (along with fellow former public defender & now-circuit judge Jane Kelly) on Obama's 5-person 2016 shortlist, & the younger & only one of the 2 to be a PoC at that, yet the other, older, white one of the 2 was short-listed by DemandJustice, while KBJ herself wasn't. The reason for her exclusion also can't be that she was still a mere district court judge at the time, as not only did that prevent her from having already been short-listed for-real by Obama in 2016, but it didn't prevent DemandJustice from short-listing Judges Boulware or Reeves on this list here either.

For the record, among those reportedly being considered by President Biden to replace Justice Breyer, DemandJustice's list happens to include - in order of arguable likelihood - Justices Kruger & Earls, profs. Alexander & Murray, & LDF Pres. Ifill.

[Donerail]

For a list that significantly touts its hyping-up of women, people of color, & public defenders, the apparent exclusion of KBJ is a bit notable, given that this list was released more than 3-&-a-1/2 years after KBJ was one of only 2 women (along with fellow former public defender & now-circuit judge Jane Kelly) on Obama's 5-person 2016 shortlist, & the younger & only one of the 2 to be a PoC at that, yet the other, older, white one of the 2 was short-listed by DemandJustice, while KBJ herself wasn't. The reason for her exclusion also can't be that she was still a mere district court judge at the time, as not only did that prevent her from having already been short-listed for-real by Obama in 2016, but it didn't prevent DemandJustice from short-listing Judges Boulware or Reeves on this list here either.

The list is pretty explicit about its winnowing criteria: "the list does not include any lawyers who have served as partners at corporate law firms." Kelly and Boulware were career PDs; Jackson, by contrast, spent a few years at MoFo.

At any rate, the relationship between Demand Justice's list and the lists that may have been put together inside the administration is dubious. Don't think anyone in the administrator was crossing off Jackson (or Watford (Munger Tolles), or Srinivasan (O'Melveny), or Koh (Wilson Sonsini)) b/c of a few years in the private sector.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Lol why are we looking at age no one has died on the Crt except for Ginsberg and she had Cancer and Scalia died from Sleep Apnea at 86 yrs old Michelle Child's is 55 yrs old and she will live all the way up till she is 75 yrs old that's 2042 so that's long Enough, I have members in my family that lived until they were 75 and the females died first because of colon cancer

[David Hume]

For a list that significantly touts its hyping-up of women, people of color, & public defenders, the apparent exclusion of KBJ is a bit notable, given that this list was released more than 3-&-a-1/2 years after KBJ was one of only 2 women (along with fellow former public defender & now-circuit judge Jane Kelly) on Obama's 5-person 2016 shortlist, & the younger & only one of the 2 to be a PoC at that, yet the other, older, white one of the 2 was short-listed by DemandJustice, while KBJ herself wasn't. The reason for her exclusion also can't be that she was still a mere district court judge at the time, as not only did that prevent her from having already been short-listed for-real by Obama in 2016, but it didn't prevent DemandJustice from short-listing Judges Boulware or Reeves on this list here either.

The list is pretty explicit about its winnowing criteria: "the list does not include any lawyers who have served as partners at corporate law firms." Kelly and Boulware were career PDs; Jackson, by contrast, spent a few years at MoFo.

At any rate, the relationship between Demand Justice's list and the lists that may have been put together inside the administration is dubious. Don't think anyone in the administrator was crossing off Jackson (or Watford (Munger Tolles), or Srinivasan (O'Melveny), or Koh (Wilson Sonsini)) b/c of a few years in the private sector.

IIRC Kruger was in a law firm representing oil companies, but still on the list.

[Donerail]

The list is pretty explicit about its winnowing criteria: "the list does not include any lawyers who have served as partners at corporate law firms." Kelly and Boulware were career PDs; Jackson, by contrast, spent a few years at MoFo.

At any rate, the relationship between Demand Justice's list and the lists that may have been put together inside the administration is dubious. Don't think anyone in the administrator was crossing off Jackson (or Watford (Munger Tolles), or Srinivasan (O'Melveny), or Koh (Wilson Sonsini)) b/c of a few years in the private sector.

IIRC Kruger was in a law firm representing oil companies, but still on the list.

She spent a couple years as an associate at WilmerHale. Not a partner.