Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says boxing helps her work out her frustrations as one of the court’s three Democratic appointees.

Often in the court’s minority on rulings, she said, however, that she finds common ground where possible.

“I take boxing lessons,” Justice Jackson told The Associated Press on Wednesday. “And I think that helps you to really get out any frustrations.”

Justice Jackson has written several dissents in her nearly three terms on the court since being nominated by former President Joseph R. Biden as the first Black female justice and confirmed in 2022 to replace retiring Justice Stephen G. Breyer, for whom she had clerked.

She dissented notably in the high court’s move in 2023 to overturn affirmative action and in 2024 to grant presidents absolute and presumptive immunity for official conduct.

But she surprised some court watchers last June by siding with a Jan. 6 defendant in a challenge to one of the felony charges he faced. She joined five of the GOP appointees to rule in the defendant’s favor, batting down prosecutors overreach of a statute used for evidence destruction against the protesters who rioted at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

In Justice Jackson’s memoir, “Lovely One,” she referred to the Jan. 6 rioters as a “marauding mob.”

She said that putting aside personal views when judging sometimes “leads to surprising results.”

• Alex Swoyer can be reached at aswoyer@washingtontimes.com.