Changing one-ninth of the Supreme Court docket inevitably adjustments the dynamic, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wasn’t shy this week at her first oral arguments. All three of the liberals have been aggressive questioners, as they joined to battle conservative authorized arguments like a Greek phalanx.
What deserves extra reflection is Justice Jackson’s soliloquy on the unique intent of the 14th Modification, which she says isn’t colorblind. Her goal was to refute the concept the Equal Safety Clause could be impinged if the Supreme Court docket requires Alabama to gerrymander by race to provide the state a second majority-black Home seat.
