Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s pick to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer, fielded over a dozen hours of questions during three days of her confirmation hearing 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 during the hearing, 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 that holds that the Constitution is an evolving document that adapts to 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 …