Jackson's willingness to break with her liberal colleagues are an indication she is amenable to legal arguments, experts say.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court decisions are a 'promising' sign that she is open to different legal arguments, even when they may not align with the Democratic Party's views.'Jackson called herself an originalist at her confirmation hearings and has shown a willingness to use history and text in her rulings,' Dan Urman, the director of the law and public policy minor at Boston's Northeastern University of Law, told Newsweek. 'That's promising.
Alison LaCroix, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, told Newsweek that Jackson may not be as pro-Democratic Party across the board, but that her votes are still politically liberal.LaCroix said observers may have found it surprising that Jackson broke with Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan in Fischer, but that her concurring opinion would likely come from a liberal justice 'who would think about the rights of criminal defendants.
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