Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told a group of lawyers and judges on Thursday that "the state of our democracy" is what keeps her up at night.

Re “Justice Jackson makes herself heard, prompting a rebuke” (Page A13, July 6): I, for one, appreciate that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is “breaking the fourth wall,” as one observer put it, in an effort to draw Americans into the debates on the Supreme Court.