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Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee that March, Jackson, then a Court of Appeals judge, denied any desire to graft her views onto the law.
'I do not believe that there is a Living Constitution in the sense that it's changing and it's infused with my own policy perspective or, you know, the policy perspective of the day,' she testified. 'Instead, the Supreme Court has made clear that when you're interpreting the Constitution, you're looking at the text at the time of the Founding and what the meaning was then…I apply that constraint.'