ABA Gives Judge Brown Jackson Top Rating
The American Bar Association on Friday rated President Biden nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as “well qualified” – its highest rating – to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States of America.
The association’s Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary was unanimous in its evaluation of Judge Jackson’s professional qualifications.
“The Standing Committee is of the unanimous opinion that Judge Jackson is ‘Well Qualified’ to serve on the United States Supreme Court,” Ann Claire Williams, the committee’s chair, wrote in a letter (pdf) to the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will conduct the hearings.
The American Bar Association “confines its evaluation to the qualities of integrity, professional competence, and judicial temperament,” Williams says in the letter.
The association’s website notes it has been evaluating the professional qualifications of Supreme Court nominees for more than 60 years and that it does not take into consideration a nominee’s “philosophy, political affiliation or ideology” when making its determinations.
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