It was clear during Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing Tuesday that she did not want to come across or sound like a leftist. She affirmed her support for the Constitution and the limits it places on the judiciary, vowed not to abuse her role and go outside of those limitations, and steered clear of a number of policies associated with the Left, such as critical race theory.

As my colleague Quin Hillyer wrote on Tuesday, Jackson sounded a bit like a conservative nominee — and that’s important insofar as it affirms the originalist judicial philosophy championed by many conservative judges over the years.