Supreme Court nominee Jackson says she will recuse herself from affirmative action case if confirmed

[former9thward]

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s nominee to the Supreme Court, said Wednesday that if confirmed, she would recuse herself from a case examining Harvard University’s admissions policies. Jackson, whose term on Harvard’s Board of Overseers expires this spring, previously had not said publicly what she would do.

Jackson’s statement came as she testified for nearly 10 hours before the Senate Judiciary Committee, with several Republicans sharply criticizing her as too lenient in her sentencing as a federal trial judge.

Jackson countered that it was unfair to solely focus on a subset of cases and emphasized that she had handed down tough sentences. Later, as Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), the only Black senator on the panel, came to her defense and praised her, Jackson became visibly emotional.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/23/ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court-hearing-live-updates/

[ecstatic]

1. why??? nt

[JohnSJ]

2. I suspect because that is her alma mater. She really shouldn't have said that though, and

reconsider reversing that statement.

After she is confirmed and seated though

[PoliticAverse]

5. She's on the Board of Overseers at Harvard not just an alumni. n/t

[JohnSJ]

7. A very important point. Thank-you. She did the right thing without question

[elleng]

4. Facial conflict of interest.

She'll piss people off for being FAIR.

[Groundhawg]

8. potential conflict of interest.

[kacekwl]

3. Of course she will cause

Democrats do the right thing while getting trampled underfoot daily by racists and traitors. Fighting or voice raising is not in their dictionary.

[bamagal62]

6. If that one thing gets

Her confirmed, I’m okay with that. It’s one case. Just get her confirmed.

[Qutzupalotl]

9. Whew, misread the headline as recuse from all AA cases.

But it's just this Harvard one.

[Bettie]

10. She'll do the right thing

while the cons on the court never recuse.

[former9thward]

12. Justices regularly recuse themselves on the court.

Ideology is not a factor. Chief Justice Roberts has recused himself 9 times because of stock ownership. Other Justices have done the same. Both Sotomayor and Kavanaugh recused themselves in cases where they had heard arguments as a lower judge. Thomas recused himself in a case involving a military school because his son had gone there. It is not uncommon.

[BSdetect]

11. So anti abortion Catholics should recuse from those cases?

What's the difference?