An online conservative commentator named Charlie Kirk logged on X to declare that Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is a “diversity hire” because she’s a Black woman. He was quickly reminded that, unlike being a professional rabble-rouser on college campuses, some jobs actually require paperwork.
In Justices, Presidents, and Senators by Henry Julian Abraham, there’s an exploration of how the Constitution doesn’t technically require any qualifications for Supreme Court Justices — Robert H. Jackson, for example, got there without a law degree. Still, Justice Jackson has two Harvard degrees and a long legal career, as one X user so eloquently pointed out. On paper alone, Ketanji Brown Jackson has one of the most impressive resumes on the bench in recent history.
