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Friday, June 27, 2025

Ketanji Brown Jackson's Race to the Top

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

 Political Cartoons by AF Branco

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...............

 

Friday, April 1, 2022

Who will vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson and why?

Based on the torrent of information that has been made public about Ketanji Brown Jackson, it is shocking that any member of Congress would vote to confirm her to the SCOTUS.  Add to this that thousands of documents from her four years on the Sentencing Commission have been withheld, presumably by Dick Durbin.  Those four years of her record must be damning, for never before has a nominee’s record not been made available to the Judiciary Committee.  

Despite this breach of protocol, and thanks to Mike Davis of the Article3 Project, the members of the committee and the public have been able to familiarize themselves with her judicial history.  Just in the last few days, an eighth case has come to light, withheld by the White House, that again shows Jackson’s penchant for handing out the briefest sentences possible.  In this one, the offender had 6,500 images of children being reprehensibly abused. If confirmed, she would be the most radical justice ever to sit on the Supreme Court...........To Read More.....


Saturday, March 26, 2022

The Ketanji Brown Jackson Story: In Conclusion

As most of you know I've been kept a running log on this event (See the Ketanji Brown Jackson story log) and many of the links are from that log.  Now, it's time for the conclusion.  

By Rich Kozlovich

 Political Cartoons by Tom Stiglich

Well, it looks like the hearings for jurist, Ketanji Brown Jackson, who has been nominated by the Biden Administration, are over.  A jurist who, according to Biden, has a brilliant legal mind, and she has been treated worse by Republicans than the Democrats treated Kavanaugh.  At least according to Cory Booker, the media, and of course the usual, or depending on you views of reality, the "unusual" Hollywood characters. 

Cory Booker slobbered all over himself about how badly she was treated, and how he's so proud of her.  Why? Because she's black?  Apparently! Booker is full of tears, full of emotion, full of horsepucky, and not one question about her judicial philosophy, or her rulings.  It was race baiting...period.  As for his claims she was treated worse than Kavanaugh.  Well the record shows something different.   Here, Here, Here. 

First, saying that to me is a serious error in judgement as I tracked all that filth, distortion and lies spewed out by the Democrats, the media and Hollywood about Kavanaugh. From my files, I know just how false that is:  Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here,  Here Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here. 

But this one, Kavanaugh/Ford Media Aftermath, lists another 28 articles on how vile and corrupt the Democrats were, and that's not the end of my list.

When I saw that look of moral outrage on the faces of contemptible people like , , , and I wanted to gag.  Their personal lives have been filled with corruption and tolerance of corruption.  The proven corruption of Democrats is a absolute indicator of how disgusting these people really are.  Democrats, and the left in general, have a serious problem with history, facts, integrity, decency, truth and consistency.   

For their own political gain they're willing to destroy a good man's reputation.  They created a big TV production of moral outrage, and yet it was nothing more than a conspiracy of lies, out right hypocrisy, perjury and leftist corruption, and they knew it.

So we shouldn't be surprised now.  Cory Booker is a blatant race baiting liar, making up stories about people in his life who never existed, and what his life was all about in order to milk the cow of race baiting to its limit.  

Not one Republican asked her about her sexual practices.  Not one Republican accused her of sexual misconduct.  Not one Republican questioned her about her alcohol use.  Not one Republican attacked her on a personal level at all.    So then, what did the Republicans do that was so terrible?  They actually challenged her knowledge of law, which at best seems to be sketchy, along with her judgement and her judicial philosophy, all of which bears serious scrutiny. 

She’s a graduate of Harvard and Harvard Law, yet couldn’t recall the core arguments in the pivotal Dred Scott case. How does she expect to converse intelligently with thoroughly prepared lawyers regarding precedent and relevance in cases that will appear before her in the Supreme Court? Judge Brown is no scholar. Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here,

She thinks the Constitution is racist, and the thrust of her rulings should leave everyone with serious concerns.  All of which the Democrats are desperately trying to hide by refusing to show 48,000 documents regarding her work and views.  

She can't define what is a woman, claiming she's not a biologist.  If you can't define something how can you rule on it?   This has become the pattern with all of these nominees by the Biden administration.  Using metaphors and abstruse logic to defend that which can't be defended with simple, plain and understandable use of language.  Their goal?  This is a sloppy misuse of language as a deliberate effort at obfuscation and deceit for political purposes. This piece by Matt Vesta shows how insane this has become, not only involving the judiciary, but science as well.  

She supports court packing, but I'm willing to bet if she was a Republican, nominated by a Republican President and supported by a Republican Congress who supported court packing the Democrats and leftists would be screaming insanely - "it's an outrage, an outrage I tell you"!

She supports abortion.  Here , 

She's not an originalist, which is the common lie spouted out by far left nominees, as did Elena Kagan, in spite of her latest claims that she is.  In fact it's clear she supports judicial activism, as is demonstrated by her sentencing child porn criminals. Here, Here, Here,Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here.  

It isn't just her lax sentencing that's at issue.  Its the idea she's going to supplant the guidelines with her understanding, injecting her views on "social justice" into the Constitutional view of "justice".  It's clear her views and likes are what will take precedence over law if she's confirmed.

She supports Critical Race Theory, the historically flawed 1619 Project, Marxism, and thinks the Constitution is racist, called the President of the United States a terrorist. All the while being weak on criminals and terrorists. Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here,  Here,  Here,  Here. Here.  

If that's what she believes she disqualifies herself because:

 “Every lawyer and judge promises to defend and protect the U.S. Constitution, but she cannot uphold this oath if she believes that the Constitution and the principles of America’s foundation are racist and inherently flawed. Neither can a judge remain impartial and administer justice independently if she holds a philosophy that correcting racism requires affording privileged classes less justice than oppressed classes”.....

Her views on immigration demonstrates she thinks her views should override the laws passed by Congress and the President.   Here 

Her smug and flip answers demonstrates she either fails to understand the laws she's supposed to be enforcing, or simply doesn't care what the law says.  All carrying a strong contaminating stain of judicial activism. Ketanji Brown Jackson wants to redesign the entire justice system based not on law, but on some ethereal, parameter-less and unendingly changeable concept of "compassion"!  And if confirmed, she will use her seat on the court to do it.

How can I be so sure of that? Because if she wasn't a believer and advocate of all the schemes of the far left she wouldn't have been nominated.  There's no doubt she subscribes to altering the Constitution based on a leftist agenda.  Biden's Chief of Staff, Ron Klain, is quoted as saying:

"We need to prepare for a complete reversal of the role the Supreme Court plays in our lives. ............Even in recent years, when the court has been less protective of individual rights and has chipped away at prior protections, advocates have clung to the hope that the Supreme Court might intervene whenever the nation's conscience and laws need a jolt in a progressive direction." 
 
Senator Kennedy asked her if she agreed with that, she punted saying: 
 
"Senator, that's a political statement made by someone in the executive branch."  

More, evasion, more misdirection in just another effort to avoid showing that in no way should she be seated as a justice on the Supreme Court, and in point of fact, she shouldn't be a judge at all. But, when you consider the federal judiciary is filled with political hacks, she fits right in, but in no way does that doesn't change the fact that any judge who doesn't believe in the Constitution, but believes in critical race theory, is unfit to serve as a jurist on the United States Supreme Court.  

As for the Republicans, there's only one thing they need to do and remember .....Never Ever Ring the Bell. 

Update:  This appeared today, 4/1/22 on American Thinker, and should add more shock to this judges rulings:   Who will vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson and why?

 

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Biden Court Pick Ketanji Brown Jackson. Not Looking Good Update!

Diversity without accomplishment is philosophy without form and incompetence without consequence. 

By Rich Kozlovich 

Update:  This appeared today, 4/1/22, on American Thinker, and should add more shock to this judges rulings:   Who will vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson and why?

 

Originally published on March 18th, however, I've added more links to this story and comments of my own.  I will keep updating this as a log for reference. Also, the number of links in this article is getting out of hand, so, I've reorganized the links by topic, starting with Overview and Qualifications and then the rest are listed alphabetically:  

Abortion, Child Porn, Democrat Corruption, Democrat treatment versus Republican Treatment, Gender, Media Corruption, Immigration, Judicial Activism, Media Corruption, Racism-Marxism-CRT, Terrorists.  Finally at the end:  The Conclusion!

On February 27th I posted my commentary, The Federal Judiciary is Not About the Rule of Law saying:

For weeks I've been watching these YouTube hearings on Biden's nominees to the judiciary, and other positions.  One thing, and one thing only seems clear from their answers:  They must have all gone to the same school of clabber as they started all their answers with "Senator, Thank you for that question", and then failed to answer it.  

It amazes me the people that are being chosen by Biden ...or whomever.... since they're are so stunningly unqualified it's almost as if they have a conservative spy in their midst finding and trying to appoint the most distasteful people to important positions, especially to the federal judiciary, in order to expose who and what the left is, and what they want. 

Editor's Note:  Now we know who is responsible for these picks.  Look for the answer under the topic, Dark Money. RK

Now this SCOTUS nominee, who Biden thinks is a "top flight legal mind", and who Paul Ryan is so thrilled about because she's so "obviously qualified"....... is coming under scrutiny...... and she's not looking good.  Will she be confirmed?  

As of right now, a substantial majority of Democrats support her nomination, a little over 20% of Independents support her, and there's a poll showing (I have no confidence in polls) 29% of Republicans say she should be confirmed. There's a reason the Republican party is called the Stupid Party.  But what I find interesting is 75% of Americans don't like the idea of Biden choosing someone simply because of their gender or race. 

If all this is true, it makes you wonder at the cause of such cognitive dissonance in the American mind, let's explore this whole story and the difference of reprehensible abuse and treatment Democrats heaped on Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, versus the tough questions on judicial philosophy, public policy and law the Republicans are taking. 

Let's try and get this....just once.... please.  Conservatives don't care that this nominee is a woman or that she's black.  Conservatives don't care about the gender, race, or ethnic origin.  There's not a conservative I know that doesn't think Justice Thomas is one of the truly extraordinary jurists of SCOTUS history.  This identity qualification clabber being imposed on the nation is racist. Racism falls under the purview of America's historical party of racism.  Democrats, and nothing has changed.

Conservatives only care if they believe in the rule of law, and that the Constitution is what is says, not what they think it should say.  If this nominee filled those requirements, she would have had no issues with the Republicans on that committee, but make no mistake: If she was an honorable jurist and filled those requirements, she wouldn't have been nominated.  That has been the pattern of each and every one of Biden's picks for every job in his administration and the judiciary.   Why should be we think it's any different now?  Answer?  We shouldn't.

Overview and Qualifications 

Jackson is not highly regarded as a judge. Inquiries I have made recently of folks knowledgeable about her work confirm that she continues to have a middling reputation. This criticism, I’ll emphasize, is on grounds of quality, not ideology. Indeed, she is not regarded as ranking high among the ten or so district judges that President Obama appointed to the federal district bench in D.C. . . .Jackson has a striking record of reversals by the D.C. Circuit—including by liberal judges—in her high-profile rulings:.........The D.C. Circuit reversed Judge Jackson. All three judges on the panel agreed that she got things very wrong. They differed only on which error required vacating her injunction.........

There is a good chance, then, that Judge Jackson is an affirmative action nominee for the D.C. Circuit. In other words, she was selected because of her race, which trumped her mediocre record.............it’s unsettling to think that the quality of the appellate bench — especially that of the all-important D.C. Circuit — might be diluted in the name of diversity..........


Harris: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson ‘Understands the Experience of Real People’ - Pam Key
 
Grassley: White House Covering Up 48,000 Documents on SCOTUS Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson (VIDEO) - By Cristina Laila March 21, 2022 - Senate confirmation hearings for Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson began Monday morning.Senate Judiciary ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on Monday revealed the White House is covering up 48,000 documents on Ketanji Brown Jackson....
 
Exclusive—Alan Dershowitz: My Encounter with Ketanji Brown Jackson at Harvard in 1991 -  Alan M. DershowitzWhen Ketanji Brown Jackson was at Harvard 30 years ago, a white student whose family had supported the Confederacy despite their opposition to slavery, decided to fly a Confederate flag from her dorm window. She said her motivation was to stimulate a conversation about the complexity of the Confederacy. As you can imagine, her action stimulated outrage among many students of all races and ethnicities. One African American student responded to the Confederate flag by flying a Nazi flag from her dorm window—not to show support for Nazism but to make students whose families were victimized by Nazis better understand why the descendants of slaves react so strongly to the flag that symbolizes their enslavement. I hope Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will be questioned about her general views regarding the centrality of the First Amendment to our constitutional system............ 
 
With Friends Like These…—On Conservative Supporters of KBJ - By - I therefore find it baffling that some conservatives—including folks I like and admire—have urged Senate Republicans to vote for Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination on the basis (as one group letter* puts it) of “her breadth of experience, demonstrated ability, and personal attributes of intellect and character” and to set aside their “disagree[ments] with many of Judge Jackson’s legal views.”............. 
 
Blackburn: Jackson Is to Ginsburg’s Left on Gender, Won’t Oppose Court-Packing Like Ginsburg Did - Ian Hanchett 23 Mar 2022 - On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) argued that “everything is so woke” that Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is to the left of former Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on gender because Justice Ginsburg argued that “Physical differences between men and women…are enduring” and cited a prior ruling that “the two sexes are not fungible” and that Jackson won’t state her opposition to court-packing like Ginsburg did.  Blackburn said Jackson’s answer on the definition of a woman “shows you how politicized this process has become and how the left-wing dark money groups are feeding into this to the point that everything is so woke, she will not even give me the definition of the word ‘woman.'”......

Pollak: Ketanji Brown Jackson Proves Conservatives Have Won the Legal Argument -  Joel B. Pollak 24 Mar 2022 - Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson had trouble defending her sentencing record in child pornography cases during her Senate confirmation hearings this week. She also evaded questions about her judicial philosophy, insisting that she had a judicial “methodology” instead.  Curiously, however, Judge Jackson seemed to identify herself as a judicial “originalist,” criticizing “judicial activism” and claiming that she did not even know what the left-wing view of a “living Constitution” meant........

“I believe that the Constitution is fixed in its meaning,” Jackson said. “I believe that it is appropriate to look at the original intent, original public meaning of the words when one is trying to assess [a constitutional provision] because, again, that is a limitation on my authority to import my own policy views.”.......

What Cornyn discovered next, though, revealed that Judge Jackson is not an “originalist” at all............. Judge Jackson is pretending to be a originalist because conservatives have won the argument over legal philosophy, and because the public will reject a judge who admits pursuing what Judge Jackson once called “personal hidden agendas.”........
 
Fr. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, told Breitbart News that President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson “cannot even see that partial birth abortion is wrong” and asserted that the Democrat Party has become an “arm of the abortion industry,” despite the fact that most Americans oppose such extremism.........
Senator Kennedy Stumps Supreme Court Nominee with One Question
  As for whether or not she supports abortion: If she didn't she wouldn't have been nominated. 
 
40 Pro-Life Leaders Expose Biden Supreme Court Justice Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s ‘Pro-Abortion Extremism’ -  A coalition of nearly 40 national pro-life leaders sent a letter to the chairs of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Monday specifying the radical pro-abortion record of Biden Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson.  Led by the Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List), the coalition’s letter was addressed to the committee’s chairman, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), and ranking member Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) as confirmation hearings began for Jackson, who was chosen by Biden following the announcement of his commitment to nominate a black woman to the nation’s highest court. The letter explains how the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade has been harmful to the fabric of the country.............

Democrat Treatment Versus Republican Treatment

Let's start with: “You stop for a moment and you see the exchanges that we have seen so far and the way the day has gone so far for this nominee, and you are reminded what, you know, Brett Kavanaugh went through, Amy Coney Barrett, and the stark difference in the way that the nominee is being questioned by in this case Republicans of the nominee.”  “There’s no question there is a huge difference in tone and tenor. She has not been asked even whether she drinks beer, let alone what beer she drinks”.

 Political Cartoons by Bob Gorrell

The lady should answer a few questions - By Silvio Canto, Jr. March 22, 2022 - Don't expect anyone to appear out of the blue with a story about what Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson did when she was 17 or some crazy college parties that she went to.    Do expect some serious questions about her judicial philosophy or her attitudes about the U.S. Constitution. I found this analysis from Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America to be on target:..........

How Is ‘Boofed’ Pronounced? And Other Vital Questions Ketanji Brown Jackson Must Answer - I & I Editorial Board March 22, 2022  - By all evidence, Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court will be a shoo-in. Not because she’s supremely qualified, but because her nomination — as the press reminds us in every headline — is “historic.”......Nevertheless, if Democrats want to at least give the appearance of fairness, they should ask Jackson the same questions they asked the last two Republican nominees to the court ...........Questions such as these (which are taken directly from previous Supreme Court nomination hearing transcripts):...........

Gender

Jackson says she can't define what a woman is at confirmation hearing - by Kate Scanlon, Political Reporter March 22, 2022 - Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden's nominee to the Supreme Court, said during her confirmation hearing Tuesday that she could not define the term "woman."  Senator Blackburn: "Can you provide a definition for the word woman?" Judge Jackson: "No. I can't...I'm not a biologist."......To Read More....

Judge Brown Jackson Tore Down One of the Progressive Left's Major Dogmas - Larry O'Connor  Mar 23, 2022 - I think it's fair to say none of us saw this one coming... certainly not Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson..........Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) asked the good judge to perform the simple task that most pre-schoolers can accomplish. The exchange reflects a level of intellectual stupidity that only can be attained at America's leading graduate schools... in this case, Harvard.   Blackburn asked, "Can you provide a definition for the word woman?" Jackson responded, "No. I can't...I'm not a biologist." ........How is this relevant in a SCOTUS confirmation hearing?   Oh, I don't know... maybe it's possible that at some point in the not-too-distant future, the court will have to make a determination about Title IX protections for women's sports............
  •  The Freeport Question of Our Time - The “Freeport Question” refers to Abraham Lincoln’s devastating question posed to Stephen Douglas in his second debate against Douglas on August 27, 1858, held in Freeport, Illinois. The question was seemingly simple: “Can the people of a Territory in any lawful way, against the wishes of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from their limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?” Douglas’s answer split the Democratic Party in half.......Today’s Freeport Question—the question that has the potential to split the Democratic Party off from a majority of voters—is: what is a woman?
Watch – Ted Cruz: Can I Decide ‘I Am a Woman’ and Sue, Then Change My Mind? -  Wendell Husebø  23 Mar 2022 -  Sen. Ted Cruz (D-TX) questioned Ketanji Brown Jackson on Wednesday during her Senate confirmation hearing if a plaintiff could alter his or her gender or race and continue to hold legal standing during a lawsuit involving race or gender.  “Yesterday, under questioning from Senator Blackburn you told her that you cannot define what a woman is — that you are not a biologist, which I think, you are the only Supreme Court nominee in history who has been unable to answer the question — what is a woman.” Cruz prefaced.........“Under the modern, leftist sensibilities, if I decide right now that I am a woman, then, apparently, I am a woman, does that mean I would have article three standing to challenge a gender-based restriction?” Cruz asked. Jackson refused to answer the question. “Those kinds of issues are working their way through the courts, and I am not able to comment on them,” she claimed........
 
USA Today's Op-Ed About Judge Jackson and What Defines a Woman Is Outright Insane -
Matt Vespa Mar 25, 2022 -   When did this happen? When did science cease to become absorbed into the minds of liberals? By default, they’re idiots, but this is different. This is now a mental defect that prevents them from determining things that are grounded; things that are true on its face. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson had difficulty defining what is a woman. She wouldn’t say. Her answer was that she’s not a biologist. So, she doesn’t know herself? Is her daughter a female? C’mon, judge. You know the answer. Yet, this is ‘woke’ America. It’s the supplantation of facts for feelings. This is snowflake syndrome but in its second phase of evolution—and it’s horrifying....

My Take - One of my 200 Rules is:  Definition leads to clarity.  Clarity leads to understanding.  Understanding leads to good decision making.   More and more writers keep asking: If you can't define something how can you possibly rule on it?  One writer asked it she really is the "first" black woman to be nominated to the court?  After all, if "woman" is indefinable, perhaps "black" is also indefinable. Since the left now demands we can self identify to whatever we wish to be, and society "MUST" accept that, perhaps she's not black or a woman?  How's this.  Not only can someone self identify, everyone else can identify them as they please, and they "MUST" accept that?  

The first black woman...or is she? March 24, 2022 Even she, if she is a she, cannot explain why she's a she. And the gobbledygook is, in her mind, a reasonable response ..........does she have a definition for "black"?.........The SCOTUS is not a jobs program for political activists.  Let her go work for one of George Soros' businesses if that's her goal.......She is historic in one sense — that of giving the stupidest answer ever to a simple question...... More

When we lose sight of the basics there's no end to the insanity.  

The left destroys us with our own values, and for the left, there are no boundaries, barriers or foundational values to which they subscribe.  They use every emotional tactic possible and lie, making accusations they know are false.  They will embrace the philosophical flavor of the moment with great enthusiasm and self righteous fervor, until that no longer works, and then embrace a view that's diametrically opposed to their previous position with equal fervor if needs be to get and hold power.   

The left isn't wrong, it's evil!  Anyone picked to be a part of the federal judiciary by the Biden administration supports all their evil, or they wouldn't have been nominated, and they share in that evil.   

President Joe Biden’s nominee to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, apparently refuses to use the term “illegal alien” in her court opinions, opting instead for “noncitizen.” In a handful of immigration-related cases that Jackson has ruled on U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, she has made a note to employ the term “noncitizen” or “undocumented non-citizens” rather than the terms “alien” or “illegal aliens” that are regularly used in court and in federal statutes. For instance, in Make the Road New York v. McAleenan, Jackson wrote a footnote in her ruling stating:.........

   "To my mind, he's also like the liberal's purported view of American history—irredeemably evil," Jackson wrote of Feder, whose column also attacked black civic leaders such as Louis Farrakhan. The judge disclosed the letter in a questionnaire for the Senate Judiciary Committee.  Law clerks seldom share political opinions in a public forum during their terms..........To Read More....

Ketanji Brown Jackson Accused of Judicial ‘Activism’ for Halting Deportations of Illegal Aliens -  John Binder - President Joe Biden’s nominee to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, was accused of judicial “activism” for a ruling where she halted quick deportations for newly arrived illegal aliens despite federal law............. Jackson issued a preliminary injunction to halt the policy on the grounds that the administration violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and did not sufficiently weigh the impact that the policy would have on illegal aliens.  “That, to me, is exhibit A of activism,” Graham said. “… you’re not convincing me that it is anything other than activism.”.......

Judicial Activism 

 Cruz Challenges Left-Wing SCOTUS Nominee: 'Will You Protect Freedom or Restrict It?' - Michael W. Chapman | March 21, 2022 - In his opening statement about Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson before the Senate Judiciary Committee today, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) indirectly alluded to her long history of  left-wing judicial advocacy by raising questions about abortion, gun rights, religious liberty and free speech.

Bushrod League - March 21, 2022 — Steven Hayward The confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson are off to a predictable start, with Sen. Ted Cruz mentioning the forgotten late 18th-century Justice Bushrod Washington, who was confirmed to the Supreme Court in 24 hours, provoking a spasm from the left, which may have been Cruz’s intent. Gillian Brockwell, a staff writer for the Washington Post‘s “history blog,” found this all too much to take: Ted Cruz told Ketanji..............

 Ketanji Brown Jackson College Thesis Argued Judges Have ‘Personal Hidden Agendas’ - Sean Moran -  Supreme Court Justice nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s 1992 Harvard University thesis argued that court officials, including judges, have “personal hidden agendas,” which may raise questions about her alleged tendency to be soft on criminals as a federal district court judge. Jackson’s thesis, “‘The Hand of Oppression”: Plea Bargaining Processes and the Coercion of Criminal Defendants,” argued that defendants sometimes are “being coerced into relinquishing their constitutional rights as a prerequisite for sentencing consideration” through the use of plea bargains. Jackson wrote:...........Jackson’s argument that court officials have “personal hidden agendas” regarding plea bargains raises questions about her time as a federal district court judge, as many Republicans have accused her of being soft on criminals........

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Caught in Contradiction over Judicial Activism - Joel B. Pollak Cornyn began in disarming fashion, telling the judge that he planned to “nerd out” with her over obscure matters in legal doctrine. Often, Senators use such discussions to preen about their own supposed legal expertise on national television.  This time was different. Cornyn asked Judge Jackson about the Supreme Court’s past decisions on gay marriage, when it discovered a right that was not explicitly written into the Constitution, and superseded dozens of state laws, for and against.........

Sen. Graham Shows Judge Jackson How Her Ruling Flouted Congress’ ‘Sole and Unreviewable Discretion’ Proviso - Craig Bannister March 23, 2022 - At Wednesday’s Senate confirmation hearing of Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) reminded Judge Brown of one of her rulings that was overturned because a higher court determined that she ignored the crystal-clear intent of a statue. In a case regarding the administration’s authority to employ expedited removal of illegal aliens, Judge Brown’s ruling ignored a statute’s declaration that the U.S. Attorney General has “sole and unreviewable discretion” in the matter, Sen. Graham explained:.........“So, this is an example to me, and you may not agree, where the plain language of the statute was completely ignored by you. You reached a conclusion because you disagreed with the Trump Administration.”.............

Media Corruption
 
That’s Racist: The Morons On The View Hype Ketanji Brown Jackson - Derek Hunter Mar 22, 2022 - Ketanji Brown Jackson is the smartest woman in the world. That’s not a controversial statement, it’s science…or something. At least according to the morons who make up The View. The View was always dumb, but at least when Barbara Walters started it she brought some semblance of intelligence and reality to it.  If she were dead now, the current show would have her rolling over in her grave. But Walters isn’t dead, she’s just retired. Hammering checks – mailbox money – from the idiot factory she started. And everyone who watches it is getting dumber every single day.................the idiots who now make up the goon squad over on The View believe that because of that skin color, Judge Jackson is the brightest legal mind the world has ever known…or something.......Goldberg, who once insisted Jill Biden should be Surgeon General because she’s such an amazing doctor, only to discover Jill has an Ed.D. and is no way qualified to put on a Band-Aid, let alone offer medical advice, continued, “Her abilities are outstanding. I mean, she's outstanding. So, you put in Amy Coney Barrett, you put in the other one, you know, and you're questioning her?”.......... Hosts of The View don’t know much of anything, they simply bark out what they’re told by producers and the Democrat establishment like good dogs.................. 
Racism, Marxism and CRT 
 
Biden SCOTUS Nomination Fueled by Statistical Ignorance - By Hans Bader | March 18, 2022 - President Biden has nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, following through on his campaign vow to name a black woman. Three-quarters of Americans disagreed with Biden's decision to consider only black women for the Supreme Court vacancy; in an ABC news poll, they wanted Joe Biden to consider "all possible nominees," regardless of their race or gender. Progressives support this race-based appointment based on the assumption that blacks are underrepresented on the Supreme Court. But Jackson's confirmation would make the Supreme Court 22% black, even though America is only 12%-13% black, and the legal profession is less than 5% black. One of the nine Supreme Court justices is already black (Clarence Thomas); Jackson will be the second. Two out of nine justices is 22%, well above the percentage of Americans who are black................ 
 
 Confirmation Hearing Flares Up As Questions Raised on Jackson’s View of Critical Race Theory - By Mark Tapscott March 22, 2022 - Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, attended Harvard Law School at the same time as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and the two had, he said, a “very friendly and cordial” relationship despite their conflicting views. “You and I had a very positive and productive meeting in my office,” Cruz also noted at the outset of what became one of the most intense question-and-answer sessions on the second day of Jackson’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Judicial Committee.   At issue was Jackson’s understanding of and apparent enthusiasm for Critical Race Theory (CRT), the view that America is an inherently and irredeemably racist society, and the New York Times’ controversial “1619 Project” that is based on CRT.  The Times project claims the American colonists declared independence primarily to protect the institution of slavery..........
 
Pollak: We Cannot Have a Supreme Court Justice Who Thinks Constitution Is Racist - Joel B. Pollak Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is an admirer of Critical Race Theory, the “1619 Project,” and Black Lives Matter, all of which hold beliefs about the United States and its laws that make it impossible for her to serve in good faith on the Supreme Court.  Her beliefs were revealed in a recently unearthed lecture delivered to the University of Michigan Law School — not as a young student, but as a sitting federal judge in 2020, confirmed a year later to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Somehow Judge Jackson’s radical beliefs escaped close scrutiny in previous confirmations, but the Supreme Court defines the central principles of our republic, and its nominees invariably receive more careful attention, and quite deservedly so.  Moreover, Judge Jackson is the first Supreme Court nominee to be selected explicitly because of her race and gender. President Joe Biden declared that his first nominee would be a black woman, thereby invoking the kind of discrimination that the Supreme Court itself has said is unconstitutional.........
 
SCOTUS Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson Inspired by Critical Race Theory, ‘1619 Project’, Black Lives Matter Protest - Joel B. Pollak - Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is President Joe Biden’s nominee for the Supreme Court seat being vacated by retiring Justice Stephen Breyer, cited Critical Race Theory founder Derrick Bell and the controversial “1619 Project” as inspirations in 2020.....
 
Pre K-12 School Where Judge Jackson Sits on Board Pushes Cultural Marxism on Kids - Emma-Jo Morris
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