Religion News Service examines what Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson has said about her faith.
Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson listens during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday, March 21, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington.| Updated: March 22, 2022, 12:12 a.m.• When she spoke at the first day of her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing as a nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson stated her belief in God and her gratitude for divine blessings.
“Being a Black woman in the legal field, which can sometimes be hostile,” added Rutledge, “it does take faith.” “The way that we express our faith is not just through words but by actions,” said Rutledge, describing Jackson’s kind and supportive ways, including making sure Rutledge had enough pencils before a civil procedure exam. “And she certainly had the heart of a Christian.”
The Rev. Leslie Watson Wilson, national director of People for the American Way’s African American Ministers in Action, cited Jackson’s faith statement at the nomination announcement and said she hadn’t learned more about Jackson’s religious persuasion, adding she suspects Jackson or others who know her may be preventing her from being “stigmatized or put into a particular box” about her faith since critics are already casting her as liberal or radical.
On Monday, as Jackson’s confirmation hearings were set to begin, religious leaders joined others in rallying to support her, focusing on her record and expertise. “I am not here today to degrade or denigrate or put down the moral compass or perspective of the white men,” she said, “but rather to say that the integration of the perspective of the Black woman, who has rightfully been dubbed in this nation as the conscience of America, is long overdue.”
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