Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson and Alienable Rights

In a written response she presented to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson put herself at odds with a 2,000-year-old understanding of the nature of the law and the foundation of human rights.

A half-century before Christ was born, the Roman senator Cicero plainly explained the foundation of a just law.

"There is a true law, a right reason, conformable to nature, universal, unchangeable, eternal, whose commandments urge us to duty, and whose prohibitions restrain us from evil," he said.

"It is not one thing at Rome and...