Supreme Court nominee Jackson’s judicial philosophy still mysterious after marathon hearings, Republicans say

After two marathon days of testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Republicans still say they don’t know enough about Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s judicial philosophy. 

“I believe we still haven’t heard your judicial philosophy. And I wish I’d made more progress with you on that,” Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., told Jackson toward the end of Wednesday’s hearing. 

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Jackson told Republican senators in the hearing that less than a judicial philosophy, she has a judicial methodology that helps her decide cases. That methodology, she said, starts with approaching the case from a neutral point of view. Then she ensures she’s getting information and input from all sides, Jackson said, and applying the law with an eye on “the constraints of my judicial authority.” 

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“Senator, I do have a philosophy,” Jackson told Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, Wednesday. “The philosophy is my methodology.”

Grassley wasn’t satisfied with that answer. 

“No, no. It’s kind of like, how can you not have a judicial philosophy?” he told Fox News Digital. “Like that’d be saying – how can I run for office [when] I don’t have a political philosophy?”

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., left, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the ranking member, confer as Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson begins the final day of her confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 23, 2022.
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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