Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Guantanamo clients an issue for GOP

By JESSICA GRESKO and MARK SHERMAN
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee will face sharp questions from Republican lawmakers this coming week about the work she did as a public defender representing four Guantanamo Bay detainees. Some Republicans say Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has a record of what they say is “defending terrorists” and they plan to raise questions about it at her Senate hearings that begin Monday. But some prominent Republicans have previously defended those who represented Guantanamo detainees, saying ensuring everyone access to a lawyer is a fundamental part of the American legal system. Jackson has written that under “the ethics rules that apply to lawyers, an attorney has a duty to represent her clients zealously,” no matter their own views