Clarence Page: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s defense background matters too
When Mitch McConnell, the Senate’s Republican leader from Kentucky, suggested that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson had “a special empathy for criminals,” he was not speaking as though that was a good thing.
He was speaking about the years when the federal judge and Supreme Court nominee worked as a public defender, a job in which a little empathy with one’s clients is almost part of the job description.
Yet, in
