Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson talks a lot. That’s not just a qualitative observation. She talks more than any of the other justices. That is strange considering she has no idea about the Constitution or the Bill of Rights.
During a Supreme Court hearing, Jackson made the case for rule by nationwide injunction:
“I would think we’d want the system to move as quickly as possible to reach the merits of the issue, and maybe have this court decide whether or not the government is entitled to do this under the law. Wouldn’t having universal injunctions actually facilitate that?”
Jackson isn’t much of an Article LL fan, which gives the president the power to run the federal government.
Jackson continued
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL“It seems to me, that when the government is completely enjoined from doing the thing it wants to do, it moves quickly to appeal that, to get it to the Supreme Court, and that’s actually what we would want.”
The Supreme Court’s stated role is to interpret law. Jackson’s interpretation of the court’s role would see America guided by the whims of the judiciary – whims which, as has become obvious under the Trump administration, are ideological to the bone. It’s a vision straight out of the Progressive playbook: arbitrary rule by elected officials with the right credentials (and by extension, the right politics). The administrative state isn’t sending their best, folks. Even her fellow liberal Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan has been critical of nationwide injunctions. “It just can’t be right that one district judge can stop a nationwide policy in its tracks and leave it stopped for the years that it takes to go through the normal process.”
Even her fellow liberal Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan has been critical of nationwide injunctions:
“It just can’t be right that one district judge can stop a nationwide policy in its tracks and leave it stopped for the years that it takes to go through the normal process.”
But that was when Biden was president. I bet she votes for them against Trump.
She certainly doesn’t seem to understand other important concepts, like criminal justice. The U.S. Sentencing Commission, of which Jackson was a member, unanimously passed an amendment in 2010 slashing the prison terms of crack-cocaine convicts by as much as three years.
“It is always a challenge to follow Commissioner Jackson,” remarked fellow commissioner Judge Beryl Howell following Jackson’s defense of the amendment. Laughter followed, according to the court transcript. “And her poetry.”
Then-U.S. Attorney Stephanie Rose pressed Jackson on the decision in 2011. Jackson remained steadfast in her ignorance. “If we keep them in jail for the extra 36 months, or whatever, they’re going to recidivate at the same rate as if we released them early. So I don’t see how public protection is being affected one way or the other in that scenario,” Jackson said, according to Real Clear Investigations.
“Because during the three years they are in prison, they are not out committing new crimes, that’s the difference,” countered Rose.
As a D.C. District Court Judge, Jackson chose leniency in sentencing the worst of offenders: sex offenders accused of violating young children. Christopher Michael Downs appeared before Jackson in 2020. Downs had previously bragged about molesting his 13-year-old cousin, according to transcripts obtained by the New York Post. He also uploaded a video of a prepubescent girl being sexually abused. Though Jackson admitted Downs was at “risk of reoffending,” according to the Post, she only sentenced the man to 60 months – six years less than the prosecutors demanded. Jackson referred to federal sentencing guidelines for child porn as being “outdated” and “too severe” in several cases she presided over, writes the New York Post.
Jackson’s affinity for the sound of her own voice is a good thing, if only because she consistently lays bare her ineptitude for the public. It’s a fairly damning indictment of the selection process for the Supreme Court that Jackson – who appears better suited to the office of Theater Kid – made it there in the first place.
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