Ketanji Brown Jackson: “I have no doubt that, if judges must allow the executive to act unlawfully in some circumstances, executive lawlessness…”

Despite his longstanding endorsement of a ‘colorblind’ Constitution, Justice Thomas, now surprisingly suggests that the Citizenship Clause was a race-conscious remedial measure, relating only to ‘freed slaves such as Dred Scott’ — but that…

And, so, you have to then navigate all the sources that could make for an appearance of partiality, which you want to avoid.

I try to be very, very mindful and scrupulous with respect to that because, as you say, our obligation is to be unbiased in our approach.

I would say the state of our democracy.