Jackson’s Guantanamo Work Prompts Republican Criticism (2)

Ketanji Brown Jackson’s work supporting alleged terrorists’ legal claims could become a flashpoint in her Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

Her public-defense experience “in the trenches,” as she put it, means Jackson brings a different perspective than the justice she would replace as Republican senators have criticized defenders and civil-rights lawyers in recent hearings, including taking aim at a federal trial-court nominee who worked to exonerate people for the Innocence Project. If confirmed, Jackson would be the court’s first former public defender.

“When you have been on the receiving end of some of the actions of the government, or your ...