Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes Her Mark Early, Often as US Supreme Court Work Begins
- She spoke more than any other justice in term’s first two days
- Jackson staked out positions in voting, environmental cases
Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on the steps of the Supreme Court following an investiture ceremony in Washington, on Sept. 30.
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It didn’t take long for Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to find her voice on the US Supreme Court.
Four arguments into her new job, the court’s first Black female justice has emerged as an active, forceful questioner, willing to directly lay out her views and even take on her more conservative colleagues. She spoke more than any other justice in her first two days on the bench.