Yesterday, I pointed out that every Senate Democrat voted to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson despite her documented career decline as a lawyer.

Michael Smith - Not a typical path that recognizes the level of drive and intellect one expects for a Supreme Court Associate Justice.

...detailed Jackson’s downward trajectory:

“After clerking for Justice Breyer on the Supreme Court, she joined a prestigious law firm - nothing unusual there. But after just 18 months, she left for a small practice specializing in dispute resolution. A year and a half later, she moved to a staff lawyer role at the U.S. Sentencing Commission.”

Not a typical path that recognizes the level of drive and intellect one expects for a Supreme Court Associate Justice.
Jackson’s SCOTUS seat came down to one thing: Joe Biden (or whoever was pulling the strings) promised Jim Clyburn, the powerful Democrat Representative from South Carolina, a Black female nominee if he stepped in to rescue Biden’s faltering 2020 primary campaign...