Numerous conservative legal leaders have been tweeting, quite correctly, that Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson began the interrogation part of her hearings sounding almost like a conservative’s dream nominee.

Her record and some of her writings, of course, say otherwise. Nobody should believe Jackson will be anything other than a very liberal justice. Still, the degree to which she answered questions by adopting textualist or originalist thought processes is a testament to how conservative jurisprudential approaches now frame most constitutional law discussions. Even liberals are now arguing within parameters set by jurists such as Justice Clarence Thomas and the late Justice Antonin Scalia. That’s a good sign.