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Ketanji Brown Jackson, the appeals court judge nominated by President Joe Biden to the U.S. Supreme Court, has extolled the virtues of Critical Race Theory and once urged that it be considered during sentencing of defendants, according to evidence submitted to the Senate.
Jackson was confronted by Republican senators during her confirmation Tuesday about her past advocacy for CRT, her praise of the controversial 1619 Project by the New York Times and her role on the board of a private Washington, D.C. school where racial equity is engrained in the curriculum.
She insisted her support for CRT — which teaches a person’s skin color detemines whether they will be oppressors or oppressed — would not affect her decisions as a judge. CRT “doesn’t come up in the work that I do as a judge,” she told Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) during a pointed exchange.
However, according to Jackson’s Senate Judiciary Committee Questionnaire , Jackson lectured in 2015 on “fairness in sentencing,” during which she mentioned how she believes CRT plays a role in sentencing.
“I also try to convince my students that sentencing is just plain interesting on an intellectual level, in part because it melds together myriad types of law — criminal law, of course, but also administrative law, constitutional law, critical race theory, negotiations, and to some extent, even contracts,” she was quoted as saying.
“And if that’s not enough to prove to them that sentencing is a subject worth studying, I point out that sentencing policy implicates and intersects with various other intellectual disciplines as well, including philosophy, psychology, history, statistics, economics, and politics.”
Jackson also noted in a 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr., Day lecture that a book by Derrick Bell, “the godfather of Critical Race Theory,” had been on her parents’ “coffee table for many years.”
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