… Just 51 years old, Jackson will likely spend decades at the center of the gathering conflict between the deeply conservative inclinations of the GOP-appointed justices and the preferences of a diversifying America, particularly the massive millennial and Generation Z cohorts born since 1980, which constitute the most racially and culturally diverse generations in American history. …
The Supreme Court’s docket is crowded with cases that threaten the priorities of those younger generations. …
In polling by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute, Americans younger than 40 express views far more liberal than those of most Republicans — especially those who also identify as White evangelical Christians — on virtually every cultural and civil rights issue imaginable, from abortion to whether immigrants threaten or benefit American society to requiring transgender people to use the bathrooms of the sexes they were assigned at birth to whether police killings of black men are isolated incidents or part of a systemic pattern, according to previously unpublished results provided to CNN. On most of the cultural disputes it is deciding, the court majority “is clearly going against the tide of general public opinion,” especially among the young, says Robert P. Jones, the institute’s founder and CEO. CONTINUED
Ronald Brownstein, CNN
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