Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents are better 'clickbait' than legal scholarship, experts say

While Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson made a splash during her first term on the bench, her "strident rhetoric" is unlikely to influence the court in the long run, experts say.

Jackson came in with expectations from some progressive Democrats that she would emerge as a liberal champion on the court, similarly to how Justice Antonin Scalia became a symbol for conservatives with far-reaching influence. However, some critics said Jackson's high-publicity opinions are not likely to prove a path forward to reshape the court. "Are you writing separately just to make a point or are you writing separately because you are sort of laying the groundwork for potentially in the future, turning that dissent into a majority[?] Brianna Herlihy is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.

"It seems like more she's writing to make a point to suggest that she disagrees with the majority or to the public audience, identifying problems with what she sees [with] the majority rather than views that that seems to be laying groundwork for future courts to adopt. But that's hard to say from one term," Notre Dame law professor Derek T. Mueller said in an interview with Fox News Digital. 

Mueller said while it is hard to tell from one term how Jackson will make her imprint on the court, it seems her dissents are designed to make a point to the public audience rather than laying groundwork for future cases.