President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, while testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee last year after being nominated for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, was asked by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) how she defined judicial activism. She replied: “I think judicial activism is when a judge is unable or unwilling to separate out their own personal views of a circumstance or a case and they view consistent with those views rather than the law, as they’re required to do.” But if the history of Supreme Court nominations has taught us anything, it is that there’s no such thing as a judicial activist who admits to being a judicial activist. When in 2009 then-Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) asked Obama-appointed Justice Sonia Sotomayor to define judicial activism during her confirmation hearings, she replied: “I don’t describe the work that judges do in that way … hopefully judges—and …