Ketanji Brown Jackson Won’t Change a Politicized Supreme Court, but She Was Made for This Moment

When Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman ever appointed to the Supreme Court, reflected on what it was like to serve alongside Thurgood Marshall, the first Black man so appointed, she acknowledged how much she was able to learn from someone “who saw the deepest wounds in the social fabric and used law to help heal them.” Her personal experience as a person raised in Arizona, she admitted, was nothing like the racial apartheid that Marshall worked hard to dismantle in the law. “At oral arguments and conference meetings, in opinions and dissents, Justice Marshall imparted not only his legal… Read Full Article