Jackson Touts Court Diversity as Boost to Public Confidence (1)

A diverse federal judiciary helps instill public confidence in the rule of law, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said, as federal courts face an historic test of their authority and as a new presidential administration rolls back diversity efforts in government.

“To the extent that the law is governing behavior, and it is of the citizenry at large, it instills confidence in the rule of law when the people who are governed by it understand that the judiciary and the people who are interpreting it come from different walks of life,” Jackson said Thursday in Miami.

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