Ketanji Brown Jackson on VoteMatch

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Strongly Favors topic 1: Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right (+5 points on Social scale)	2018: Keep Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program: Strongly Favors topic 1 Co-authored a pro-choice friend-of-the-court brief: Strongly Favors topic 1
Strongly Favors topic 2: Legally require hiring women & minorities (-5 points on Economic scale)	Follows precedent in workplace racial discrimination cases: Favors topic 2 Upheld program for disadvantaged small businesses: Strongly Favors topic 2 Prisons must evaluate and accommodate deaf prisoners: Strongly Favors topic 2 Lengthy discovery needed in employment discrimination cases: Strongly Favors topic 2 Wheelchair anti-discrimination laws do apply to Uber: Favors topic 2 OpEd: does affirmative action apply to qualified nominees?: Favors topic 2 Race doesn't play a role in the kind of judge that I've been: Opposes topic 2
Favors topic 3: Comfortable with same-sex marriage (+2 points on Social scale)	Nomination endorsed by the Human Rights Campaign: Strongly Favors topic 3 Served on board for school that condemned LGBTQ people: Opposes topic 3
Strongly Favors topic 4: Keep God in the public sphere (-5 points on Social scale)	Don't require religious employers to cover contraception: Strongly Favors topic 4 Thanked God, one can only come this far by faith: Strongly Favors topic 4 Religious liberty is foundational tenet of our government: Favors topic 4
Favors topic 5: Expand ObamaCare (-3 points on Economic scale)	Continue pandemic-related eviction moratorium: Favors topic 5
No opinion on topic 6: Privatize Social Security (0 points on Economic scale)	(No votes on which to base response)
No opinion on topic 7: Vouchers for school choice (0 points on Economic scale)	(No votes on which to base response)
Strongly Opposes topic 8: Fight EPA regulatory over-reach (+5 points on Social scale)	Rejected challenge to forest management regulations: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Judges should defer to expert opinion of federal agencies: Strongly Opposes topic 8
Favors topic 9: Stricter punishment reduces crime (-3 points on Social scale)	Miranda warning not required outside of police interrogation: Favors topic 9 No expectation of privacy when not in your apartment: Favors topic 9 Denied release of child pornographer as risk to community: Favors topic 9 Decide child pornography based on intent, not just actions: Favors topic 9 Pushed to commute uncle's sentence under "three strikes" law: Opposes topic 9
Opposes topic 10: Absolute right to gun ownership (-3 points on Economic scale)	Has never affirmed individual right to guns: Opposes topic 10
Favors topic 11: Higher taxes on the wealthy (-3 points on Economic scale)	Use only government data to set tobacco import subsidies: Favors topic 11
Favors topic 12: Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens (+2 points on Social scale)	Due process for immigrants regardless of legal status: Favors topic 12 Trump administration set asylum seeking standards too high: Favors topic 12
No opinion on topic 13: Support & expand free trade (0 points on Economic scale)	(No votes on which to base response)
Strongly Opposes topic 14: Support American Exceptionalism (-5 points on Economic scale)	Defended accused terrorist while her brother was in Iraq: Opposes topic 14 Executive privilege not absolute; Presidents are not kings: Strongly Opposes topic 14
No opinion on topic 15: Expand the military (0 points on Social scale)	(No votes on which to base response)
Favors topic 16: Make voter registration easier (+2 points on Social scale)	No executive privilege for Trump's Jan. 6 documents: Favors topic 16
No opinion on topic 17: Avoid foreign entanglements (0 points on Social scale)	(No votes on which to base response)
Opposes topic 18: Prioritize green energy (+2 points on Economic scale)	Can't use EPA review to stop oil pipelines: Opposes topic 18
Opposes topic 19: Marijuana is a gateway drug (+2 points on Social scale)	On US Sentencing Commission, helped reduce drug sentences: Opposes topic 19 100-to-one crack-powder penalty distinction unwarranted: Opposes topic 19
Favors topic 20: Stimulus better than market-led recovery (-3 points on Economic scale)	Don't blame car sound systems for illegal music copying: Favors topic 20 Reversed narrowing of federal collective bargaining rules: Favors topic 20

Ketanji Brown Jackson is a Moderate Liberal
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