Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson removed any shred of – Latest News
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson continues to dismay.
Her attendance on the rancidly partisan anti-ICE Grammy Awards on Sunday was a joke.
The 55-year-old Biden DEI candidate was nominated for a Grammy for narrating the audiobook of her memoir “Lovely One,” which she unashamedly believes herself to be.
But she ought to have stayed home reasonably than laughing and clapping within the viewers with a bunch of virtue-signaling luvvies ranting “F–k ICE” each time they received on stage.
It ought to have been apparent to Jackson that the occasion could be politically charged.
She has to sit down in judgment on numerous Trump administration immigration enforcement circumstances.
How can she be seen as impartial?
Answer is: she will’t, any more than she will be neutral on transgender-related circumstances after she refused to “define” a lady during her 2022 Senate affirmation.
“I’m not a biologist,” she replied to Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s (R-Tenn.) query, presumably probably the most embarrassing reply ever offered to Congress by a judicial nominee.
Using the identical rule e-book Democrats have used of their extended assaults on conservative-leaning justices, Jackson ought to recuse herself from all immigration circumstances resulting from her enthusiastic involvement within the anti-ICE Grammys.
Left’s double customary
After all, the left has waged a years-long marketing campaign to get Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito thrown off the courtroom for such sins as holidaying with a buddy who occurs to be rich, in Thomas’ case, or in Alito’s case, having a spouse who flew a patriotic flag outdoors their home.
Liberals are sticklers in regards to the look of propriety — however just for their perceived ideological opponents.
Of course, Jackson gained’t recuse herself or endure any efficient undermining from Republicans even supposing she is a left-wing activist in judicial robes, who gabs inanely during oral arguments and writes nonsensical dissents attacking her fellow justices.
The actual drawback with Jackson is her incapacity to suppose logically or in any approach that departs from the liberal soup that she has swum in her whole privileged life.
It’s probably not her fault that she’s on this place.
She doesn’t know any higher, having been advised all her life how particular she is, when she seems to not be something however a diligent lady who has adopted a golden path.
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From her upbringing within the prosperous Jewish suburb of Palmetto in Miami because the daughter of two high-achieving skilled dad and mom — a college principal and an legal professional — to her inevitable ascension into Harvard, graduating to a prestigious clerkship with liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, after which getting the nod from Barack Obama to function a district choose for DC, her life was foreordained.
Ironically, she was chosen by Joe Biden completely as a result of she is black and a lady, supposedly to make the courtroom look “more like America.”
Yet the one group she represents is the privileged elite who hang-out the halls of Harvard.
Again, we will blame Biden for the landmine he inserted into the nation’s legal DNA.
When he was a determined straggler within the 2020 Democrat major, it was his promise to South Carolina kingmaker Rep. Jim Clyburn that he would appoint a black feminine to the Supreme Court that clinched his nomination.
Boastful kingmaker
Clyburn later boasted about his function to The Washington Post: “Not a single time has a black woman ever been seriously considered. And so I took that issue up with then-candidate Biden back in 2020 . . . How many times have you heard it said that black women are the backbone of the Democratic Party? Well, you just can’t say you’ve got to show it.”
The unscrupulous Biden had no qualms about drastically narrowing the sector of candidates and spurning benefit within the choice course of, simply as he did when he selected the disastrous non-entity Kamala Harris as his DEI VP — his insurance coverage coverage in opposition to being pressured out of workplace till it was too late.
Dems have been pressured to run the unelectable, self-deluded Harris in 2024 resulting from her protected-identity standing.
The similar lack of humility and sense of entitlement is obvious in Jackson, who, as a substitute of being a minimum of barely embarrassed by the character of her appointment and resolving to knuckle down and show herself on her deserves, got here out of the gate sizzling.
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In her first two weeks on the courtroom, she spoke more than twice as many phrases as any of her colleagues, in response to statistics compiled by the Empirical SCOTUS weblog.
Ignoring the adage that “it’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt,” she has persevered with that unenviable file.
In the 2024-2025 Supreme Court time period, for example, the junior choose spoke more than 76,000 phrases in oral argument.
She spoke seven instances more than the least loquacious — and wisest — choose on the courtroom, Clarence Thomas, whose 11,000 phrases have been polished gems.
Her fellow liberal females on the courtroom are the subsequent most speakative after Jackson, however at 50,000 phrases from Sonia Sotomayor and 49,000 from Elena Kagan, she leaves them within the mud.
Jackson was twice as voluble as the opposite 5 justices, who spoke an average of 32,000 phrases every.
We can solely guess how irritating her fixed chatter is to her colleagues on the bench.
But we received a clue final yr in a majority opinion written by Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
“We will not dwell on JUSTICE JACKSON’s argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries’ worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself,” wrote Barrett.
Labeling all as ‘victims’
But probably the most searing criticism of Jackson got here in 2023, from Justice Clarence Thomas’ concurring opinion in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard.
“Justice Jackson makes use of her broad observations about statistical relationships between race and choose measures of health, wealth and well-being to label all blacks as victims . . .
“[She claims the legacy of slavery and the nature of inherited wealth] locks blacks into a seemingly perpetual inferior caste. Such a view is irrational; it’s an insult to particular person achievement and cancerous to younger minds searching for to push by way of obstacles, reasonably than consign themselves to everlasting victimhood.
“Her dissent is not a vanguard of the innocent and helpless. It is instead a call to empower privileged elites, who will ‘tell us [what] is required to level the playing field’ among castes and classifications that they alone can divine.”
Yes, Jackson could also be a good lady with an impeccable pedigree whose ill-advised resolution to attend the politicized Grammys will be excused as naivete or childhood theatrical ambitions.
But her formation by probably the most elite establishments within the nation as an insufferably entitled far-left ideologue is certainly “cancerous” to younger minds, to the courtroom, and in the end to the nation.
Of course, that’s precisely what Democrats like Biden desired.
