Supreme Court confirmation hearings have become a mostly pointless exercise, characterized by bloviating senators asking rambling and frequently incoherent questions while the squirming nominee dutifully recites case law and tries to avoid revealing any of his or her own legal views.
But every now and again the judicial confirmation process does shed a little light on what a justice-to-be actually thinks. One such moment may have occurred in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday when Sen. Ben Sasse (R–Neb.) asked Ketanji Brown Jackson to elaborate on what she has called her "judicial methodology."
