Ketanji Brown Jackson in Vox Media


On Crime: On US Sentencing Commission, helped reduce drug sentences

She is also a leading expert on federal sentencing policy, having previously served as vice chair of the United States Sentencing Commission. While Jackson was on the commission, it retroactively reduced sentences for many crack cocaine offenses in 2011, permitting about 12,000 incarcerated individuals to seek reduced sentences and making an estimated 1,800 inmates eligible for immediate release. It also cut sentences for most federal drug offenders during her last year as a commissioner.
Source: Vox.com on Supreme Court nominee Feb 25, 2022

On Government Reform: Executive privilege not absolute; Presidents are not kings

In Committee on the Judiciary v. McGahn Jackson rejected the Trump administration's claim that "a President's senior-level aides have absolute testimonial immunity" from a subpoena, after a House committee subpoenaed former Trump White House counsel Don McGahn. Jackson's opinion in McGahn may be best known for one of its most widely quoted lines: "Presidents are not kings," Jackson wrote, and "they do not have subjects, bound by loyalty or blood, whose destiny they are entitled to control."
Source: Vox.com on Supreme Court nominee Feb 25, 2022

On Principles & Values: Thanked God, one can only come this far by faith

Jackson's own speech introducing herself to the nation at a White House event emphasized traits that are likely to appeal to conservatives. Jackson opened by "thanking God for delivering me to this point in my professional journey," and stating that "one can only come this far by faith." She also mentioned her parents' 54-year-long marriage, and the fact that her brother and two of her uncles worked as police officers; one of those uncles, as chief of police in Miami, Florida.
Source: Vox.com on Supreme Court nominee Feb 25, 2022

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