Ketanji Brown Jackson's Race to the Top

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags: The Ketanji Brown Jackson Story: In Conclusion, 

 

During the time she was "running" for a seat on the court there was all this clabber about Ketanji Brown Jackson being one of America's great legal minds from the leftist media.  That actually turned humorous because she couldn't give a definition for what a woman is. After all, she's not a biologist.  That came out so smooth it clearly had to have been rehearsed.  Which means one of the nation's "greatest legal minds" needed coaching?  Did I get that right?  I didn't miss anything there did I?

So then what is the definition of a "great legal mind".  Clearance Darrow was considered one such person.  He pridefully would debate anyone on anything, and would willingly take either position in the debate, and usually won.  But what did he believe in?  Did he believe some things really are right and some things really are wrong?  To quote Shania Twain:  "That don't impress me much."

Over at American Thinker Andrea Widburg posted this article, Justice Barrett gives Justice Jackson the nastiest judge-on-judge smackdown I’ve ever seen, saying:

With apologies to Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson must have been appointed based on her XX chromosomes (even though she doesn’t know what a woman is) and her melanin level. Take those away, and she is a truly dim bulb. But now that she’s on the Supreme Court, she’s a dim bulb with dreams of an all-powerful (leftist) judiciary.

However, showing that the more intelligent people on the Court have finally lost patience with her, in today’s excellent decision saying that lower courts may no longer issue universal (or nationwide) injunctions, Justice Amy Coney Barrett gives Jackson a smackdown the likes of which I’ve never seen in a Supreme Court decision.

In the article she links posts showing some public comments.  

• OMG Justice Amy Coney Barrett basically implied Ketanji Jackson is too dumb or unwilling to read "legalese" - literally her JOB description She is the most unqualified justice in Supreme Court history. DEI.
• Ketanji Brown Jackson is a great example of how DEI feeds racial prejudice. When you elevate morons just because of their skin color, people get the mistaken idea that all people of that skin color are morons. It's a terrible thing to do to people.
• Everyone on the Left loves to note that Biden made Ketanji Brown Jackson the first black female Supreme Court justice. But they never give him any credit for appointing the first mentally handicapped justice. That’s ableism, and it’s wrong.

Jackson has no desire to have her views, many of which are hardly based on any rule of law, impugned by a bunch of  “mind-numbingly technical query”.  C'mon man, all that legalese is really boring, and since she's absolutely sure the real job of the federal courts is to tell everyone, including the President to do as they're told and shut their mouths, the Constitution, and their sworn oath to uphold the Constitution, notwithstanding, there's no need to waste time on legalese. 

Anyone with a brain knew she was a dunderhead right from the beginning, and now I would love to see what former Speaker Paul Ryan, who’s related to her through marriage, and claimed she was an excellent choice to be a SCOTUS justice thinks now. Don’t hear much from him these days, and that's a good thing. 

However, there is one person who really appreciates her.  Sotomayor.  Now she’s no longer the dumbest member on the court.  In the race to be the courts number one nitwit she's reached the top, but it is a close race.   The fact is the only bench Jackson is qualified to sit on is a park bench.   

Update, 6/29/25: 

•  Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson: “What Good is the Constitution?” “Those things Americans call constitutional rights seem hardly worth the paper they are written on!” Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson is laughably unqualified for the position she was appointed on based on only three things: none of which had anything to do with her ability to understand the law, its history and the relevant precedents. Let alone the Constitution. But she is a radical leftist and what she lacks in reasoning ability, she more than makes up for in her dislike of America. Here’s where the two come together in her dissent.......
•  The Martian chronicles - Yesterday we took a look at Justice Barrett’s dismissal of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent in Trump v. CASA, Inc.. Justice Jackson’s overlong and underthought dissent seems to me most notable for its poor writing. It reads like a New York Times op-ed column, or rather like 10 of them. Times readers are probably her intended audience. On X James Taranto draws attention to “[a]n underappreciated passage of Justice Jackson’s dissent............Jonathan Turley assesses the merits of Justice Jackson’s dissent in “The Chilling Jurisprudence of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.”

Update, 6/30/25: 

•  Justice Jackson Is Even Worse Than We Thought - We’ve previously covered Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissent in Trump v. CASA Inc., yet it somehow manages to be worse than we initially thought. I think we can easily say that her dissent proves that she’s not a serious member of the Supreme Court...........The Supreme Court should be a fortress of reason — not a stage for activist grandstanding. At PJ Media, we’re exposing the radical rewrites and restoring common sense to the conversation. Become a PJ Media VIP today with the code FIGHT for 60% off and get privileged access to in-depth reporting, zero ads, and a community of true constitutionalists. The stakes have never been higher — join us and help keep the judiciary in check. Take action — join today!

Update, 7/1/25:  

•  Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Thunderclap Heard Around the Republic - Andrea Widburg called it “the nastiest judge-on-judge smackdown I’ve ever seen.” She wasn’t wrong. Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s rebuke of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in Trump v. CASA, Inc. was sweeping and ferocious—and for good reason. Jackson’s dissent did not merely differ in tone or jurisprudence. It was a judicial manifesto, a radical blueprint to recast the federal judiciary as the final, universal enforcer of national policy. Justice Barrett met fire with fire—and then buried the dissent beneath the ash.................
• Marlow: We Can’t Remove KBJ from SCOTUS, But We Can Mock Her for Being a ‘Dumb Libtard’ - Marlow said that Justice Barrett’s opinion that was essentially saying Jackson is “a dumb libtard” last week, “does usher in an era where we’re going to have to use mockery and ridicule for Ketanji Brown Jackson. … [T]here is, of course, nothing we can do. We can’t remove her from the bench or anything, but you can make fun of her and you can hold her up as an example of the problems with DEI hires.".......
• Constitutionally Illiterate Imbecile - This nasty, intellectually dull totalitarian that puppet Biden put on the Supreme Court has actually upheld the authority of lower level federal judges over the President of the United States.........Even this Constitutionally illiterate imbecile understands her own radical ideology: All things leftist are upheld; all things nonleftist are struck down. It’s really as simple as that. This is the dictatorship that “progressives” seek to impose. They will not stop until they get it.............

Update, 7/9/25: 

Just like the many hours long ramblings and mumblings of Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries, her multi-page dissents say nothing, but just like Booker and Jeffries, her dissents demonstrate dumb is infectious, and the desire to demonstrate that lack of smarts with an overwhelming attempt to explain how dumb is really a super power.  

• Ketanji Jackson’s wacko dissent to a Supreme Court order allowing agency heads to plan to trim their departments- It’s no secret that Joe Biden nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the United States Supreme Court because she is a black woman.* In other words, she was not chosen for her judicial acumen, but for her political identity. That goes a long way to explaining the absolutely lunatic dissent she issued to a Supreme Court order. That order stayed a California district court judge’s ruling blocking President Trump from ordering agency heads to produce plans for possible “Reductions in Force.” What makes Jackson’s dissent even crazier than its lack of any intellectual foundation is her open hostility to her fellow justices and the president...
• It Gets Worse for Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as She Gets Schooled by Sotomayor - Progressive Justice Sonia Sotomayor explained that the Court can’t declare an order of President Trump’s to be unconstitutional if the order does not actually exist. Sotomayor told Justice Ketanji Jackson that she agrees with her that President Trump can’t restructure federal agencies in a way that is inconsistent with constitutional mandates. However, that question is not before the Court...........
• First It Was Barrett - Now Even Sotomayor Embarrasses Ketanji Brown Jackson with Her Opinion in SCOTUS Ruling - It was bad enough for Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson when the court’s conservatives were shredding her legal chops to pieces in published opinions............Justice Sonia Sotomayor got attention for having to remind Jackson — whose opinion in a universal injunctions case decided last month drew widespread mockery — that her opinion didn’t actually deal with the the matter before the court...............