Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s pick to replace outgoing Justice Stephen Breyer, fielded over a dozen hours of questions during three hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Here are some of the key takeaways from those hearings. Jackson Backs Off From Committed Judicial Philosophy On various occasions throughout the hearings, Republicans on the Judiciary Committee pushed Jackson to elaborate on her judicial philosophy, but Jackson backed away from these pronouncements. Many liberal Supreme Court justices express belief in the idea of a “living Constitution,” a theory which holds that the Constitution should be adjusted to fit the issues of the time while leaving intact the spirit of the document. Conservative justices tend toward “originalism”—which says that the Constitution should be interpreted as the Founders interpreted it—and “textualism,” which calls for a relatively strict interpretation of the text of the Constitution itself. Jackson did not commit …