Judge Jackson and Critical Race Theory
The issue of critical race theory has been raised repeatedly in the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, specifically her passing mention of it in a 2015 speech on federal criminal sentencing.
On the second day of the hearings, Jackson said critical race theory has not been a part of any decisions she has made as a judge. She said her speech seven years ago was about “sentencing policy and all of the different academic disciplines that might relate to it.”
is the study of institutional racism as a means to better understand and address racial inequality. It has become a hot-button political issue among Republicans who oppose it being taught in public schools, though as Jackson noted in one of the hearings, it’s typically “an academic theory that’s at the law
