“KBJ has become the equivalent of a hand grenade that Joe Biden threw into the Supreme Court”
My observation after Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch finally respond to her barbs: “She attacks [the majority Justices] integrity. She attacks their credibility. She attacks their good faith”
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has been issuing increasingly vitriolic solo dissents directed at the majority on the Supreme Court. The issue is not so much her simplistic and ideologically driven substance, but that she insults her colleagues.
We have covered multiple prior instances:
- Clarence Thomas Reading His Epic Takedown Of KBJ’s Affirmative Action Dissent Left Her “Visibly Angry”
- SCOTUS Grants Trump Another Stay, KBJ Issues Another Fiery Solo Dissent, Drawing Rebuke Even From Sotomayor
- KBJ Angry Dissent After Unable to Convert Any Other Justice To Her Side in Conversion Therapy Case
Her most recent outburst came in the Louisiana redistricting case, where she lashed out after all the other Justices granted a request to expedite entry of judgment in light of the election calendar. She was so over the top that a rebuke was issued from Justice Alito, joined by Thomas and Gorsuch. We covered it in Alito Obliterates Jackson’s Dissent: ‘Groundless and Utterly Irresponsible’.
I had a chance to discuss KBJ’s tactics on the Tony Katz show (transcript excerpt, may contain transcription errors, lightly edited for transcript clarity):
WAJ:
…. There’s only one person who objected to [the Court’s ruling expediting entry of judgment], and that’s Ketanji Brown Jackson. In a scathing dissent in which she basically called the majority names …. hich she’s done many times before. She’s very derisive towards her colleagues. She’s very offensive towards them.
She calls them names. It’s really unbecoming a Justice of the Supreme Court to do that. And so, Alito, Gorsuch, and Thomas felt the need to write something responding to her. And in it, they basically said, nothing we did is unprincipled, but you are, and it was just a really awkward sort of situation.
But the important thing is they felt the need to do that, because they said that” the dissent levels charges that cannot go unanswered.” They’ve ignored her in the past, but she’s just gone so out on the limb and so offensive towards people always questioning their good faith. Not just disagreeing on the merits. That’s one thing. But questioning the good faith of the other justices, she does it all the time. She’s a problem. And the other justices are finally beginning to speak up about it….
Katz:
… You think there’s something very important to the fact that in this response to Justice Jackson, that it comes from not only Alito, not only from Clarence Thomas, which you could almost describe as the usual suspects But it comes from Neil Gorsuch. Why is that important to you?
WAJ:
Well, because Gorsuch is somebody who, I don’t know if I would call him a swing vote, but he does go to the side that conservatives don’t like from time to time. Like on the famous employment law decision about whether “sex” [in employment anti-discrimination legislatoin] includes sexual orientation, he was the decisive vote there. So he is somebody who is a little harder to predict. You’re right, Alito and Thomas, they’re great, but they are the usual suspects, okay? And Gorsuch is not. And so the fact that he joined that statement, I think is highly significant. And the fact that none of the other two left-wing Justices, Kagan or Sotomayor joined with KBJ, and that’s becoming a pattern. She’s increasingly writing solo dissents…
Sotomayor is as liberal as they come, Kagan is close to that, although she appears sometimes to be more centrist, but they don’t engage in the name calling.
KBJ has become the equivalent of a hand grenade that Joe Biden threw into the Supreme Court and she explodes at people. She tries to cause damage. And again, the issue is not that she disagrees with them on the substance, but she attacks their integrity. She attacks their credibility, she attacks their good faith.
This is not the sort of sniping you’re used to seeing on the Supreme Court. I don’t think she’s going to be impeached. I disagree with you. There is no way she’s going to be impeached in my estimation. But she’s unfit for the court. I mean, she really is.
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Her wearing a mask and glasses is definitely an improvement. Cover up as much face as possible.
Biden is a POS. The best he could produce under any circumstances is more excrement.
KBJ should be cited in history books as THE textbook example of the fruits of DEI, as the Soviet Union is cited as THE textbook example of a police state, or as the Maginot Line is cited as THE textbook example of unimaginative military incompetence.
I wouldn’t cite the Maginot Line, since its reputation as “the textbook example of unimaginative military incompetence” is undeserved.
Milhouse – leave that poor damn tree alone and let’s get back to discussing the forest.
The point here is that all his examples show unintended consequences when you try to force specific outcomes.
In the Maginot Line example (from your ‘source’)
” The line was to deter invasion by Nazi Germany and force them to move around the fortifications through Belgium.
The Ardennes were thought to be impassable to any significant military force.
Now, where were we?
Really? Fixed emplacements where all you have to do is walk around them? That is rather textbook
I did say textbooks, and I stand by it.
I didn’t say the most politically ephemeral will-o-the-wisp on the Internet.
“KBJ has become the equivalent of a hand grenade that Joe Biden threw into the Supreme Court”?
More of a judicial fart in an elevator.
Speaking of whom: he sure has disappeared from the news. Completely!
Speaking as someone dealing with an aging parent, America is fantastically lucky nothing worse happened under Biden.
For those who know about dealing with caregivers, 7 in 10 are going to steal from your parents, 6 of them will just neglect them and let them fester with UTIs.
Kamala represents the worst of the worst scenarios of what America was facing.
There’s a place in hell for every person who was serving in White House for those 4 years.
You are over looking the spineless Rs who voted for her! Of course she is a POS but without Republicans she would have never been confirmed.
Surely she isn’t one of those lib freaks STILL wearing a mask.
Let her, those masks serve as a remote notice of extremely low intelligence
The photo is likely from early 2022, when she was nominated, roughly eight months after most people with brains had decided to tell the CDC to shove their masks up their backholes. This was well into the months when backholes were continuing to self-identify, but apparently nobody twigged to this. Or perhaps they just ascribed her behavior to déférence oblige for the backhole at the podium.
President autopen might have nominated her but the Senate approved her. Let that sink in. Those intellectually challenged anti-American socialists from the democratic crime family voted for her and were joined by a few globalists Republicans just because. Disgraceful that she made it through law school and a previous vote to land on the district court. Oh by the way, it was the anointed one who nominated her to the district court. Another turd left behind by him.
In a 9-0 I concur with you. People that keep harping on “Biden’s installation of KBJ” ignore the fact that all the President does is nominate someone. The Senate voted her in. It’s the Senate’s fault she is there acting all DEI with stupid activist opinions and dissents that have zero to do with the Constitution and all to do with an agenda.
Just a reminder that KBJ was confirmed by a 53-47 vote, with the horrible Romney and Murkowski joining Collins (a squishy Republican who’s probably the most conservative Senator we could be from Maine) and all of the Democrats. She would have been confirmed on a party line vote without the “Republican” support–but there was no reason to give her “bipartisan” support–she was clearly unqualified. Oddly, Romney voted against her nomination to the DC Circuit (but Lindsey Graham voted to confirm her to the DC Circuit). Too many RINOs–we need to expand the Indiana cleansing of the Republican Party. In particular, thanks Alaska–a quite conservative state gives us the worst Republican senator.
All sorry white people who thought that denying the first black woman a seat on the Court was a greater sin than actually keeping a stupid emotional woman who revealed herself to be a stupid emotional woman off the bench.
The sin was nominating someone who was incompetent. There are actually competent Black women judges. The problem is Brown Jackson, not Black women.
Yes, but when your precondition is that you’ve reserved the seat for a black woman, you can achieve your goal with or without the travail of finding a competent one.
Like with AOC and the new breed, these are know-nothing know-it-alls, with so little experience of real life they are ignorant of how ignorant they are. Their sanctimony is laughable when they are being ignorant without even knowing. Some have more brains than others, of course, or more charisma. Jackson’s ignorance is off-putting and divisive because it never goes away. And she is just getting started. Maybe she will get frustrated eventually and choose to go after the money. It would not be a surprise.
We should be so lucky. In my 8th decade, I don’t know that the Lord will allow me to hang around long enough to see her off the court, but it surely would be gratifying.
Anyone who has been around enough liberal black woman know they are the loudest most uncouth creatures on earth.
Best to cut ties with this hag.
Watch a few 2:00 am Waffle House rumble videos for more key insights.
We will look back fondly at the sublime incompetency of KBJ if the Democrats ever take control of Congress and the Presidency. Right now in VA they’re scheming to force retiree the entire state S.Ct. and replace it with new appointees to rubber stamp their radicalism. Consider every insane nightmare agenda you can think of as on the table for the democrats if they regain federal power. Their civil war didn’t work but looks like they’ve never really abandoned the dream of destroying this country.
Yeah, that’s not going to fly. If they try to arbitrarily and suddenly change the mandatory retirement age for judges from 73 to 54 there will be a federal lawsuit under the equal protection clause, and Gregory v Ashcroft will not help them. The arguments that decision used to uphold Missouri’s limit of 70 will work against them here.
Suits there may be but who knows if any successful arguments could be made and if relief would be timely.
Although Gregory v Ashcroft would not be of any help, except for the rabidly power obsessed democrats. Va voters put that out of control nut Spanberger into power so, like NY and Mamdani, they get to enjoy the consequences.
I wouldn’t worry about this too much. Reading the NYT and other pieces on this, it basically comes down to 1. Progressive newsletter had a dumb idea, 2. Dumb idea was brought up at a Dem strategy meeting, 3. Dumb idea was not accepted at the meeting.
Nobody but nobody in office is going on the record saying that this is their strategy. Only a handful are willing to say that they’re having their lawyers look at it. But the NYT got clicks and that’s all that matters these days.
4. NYT hoping to incite our side to democrat-style violence.
They accepted the push through redistricting by any means dumb idea. Just sayin.
Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas, the two black justices I know of, were worlds apart, really diametrically opposite, in their legal philosophies and jurisprudence, but both were always respectful of their colleagues and the Court. This KJB appointment is so egregious, she never should have been confirmed as a district court judge in DC but there you go. The “comity” Republicans are the ones to blame..
I’d argue that KBJ is diametrically opposed in many ways to Thurgood Marshall. That’s how far down the rabbit hole the left has gone.
Yes. Comity gold.
KBJ displays not only a lack of personal courtesy, but also professional courtesy. This shouldn’t be personal, it’s business, but she makes it personal in an attempt to drag them down to her level, at which point they can be shamed and blamed. This is an all too familiar tactic from the left, and one that is not compatible with a civilized society.
I suspect that in the back of her mind, she considers ALL the rest of them as rayciss.
Memo for KBJ: When even Sotomayor and Kagan are rolling their eyes at you, maybe you should just STFU.
1. Ketanji Brown Jackson is unfit for the court.
2. But she’s not going to be impeached
3. We’re stuck with her
I sincerely, most sincerely hope you’re wrong.
Sorry I didn’t make it more clear. I was summarizing the article:
“There is no way she’s going to be impeached in my estimation. But she’s unfit for the court. I mean, she really is.”
You are absolutely correct, Ketanji Onyika Brown-Jackson is psychologically and intellectually unfit for the SCOTUS, unfit for any bench and unfit to be allowed to be a member of the bar.
If by “impeached” you mean “removed,” dream on. Even if we had 55 solid GOP votes, we’ll never get enough Dem votes in the Senate to remove her, especially when doing so means PDT gets to appoint her replacement. So while it is at least theoretically possible that the House might have the stones to impeach her (and hacks like Boasberg), at the end of the day it’s a waste of time because we simply do not have the votes in the Senate to finish the job.
Now, can the House severely cut the budget of the judiciary (though not the judges’/justices’ individual salaries) to get their attention? Yup, and being a budgetary matter, it could get through the Senate via reconciliation. Just saying. . . .
For experience has already shown that the impeachment [the constitution] has provided is not even a scarecrow… The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist, and shape into any form they please.
–THOMAS JEFFERSON, TO SPENCER ROANE
Absent some new, exceptionally egregious behavior I think you’re correct. Maybe we’ll get lucky and she’ll throw a temper tantrum during an oral argument and start calling the other justices names. You could probably justify an impeachment on her inability to perform the duties of her office and hindering the ability of her coworkers to do the same. It just might work.
She could pull a gun on Clarence Thomas and shoot him, and we *still* wouldn’t be able to get enough Dem senators to vote to remove (nor would a DC jury ever convict her on any separate criminal charges). Unless all her colleagues make it so uncomfortable for her that she chooses to leave (not happening), we are stuck with her.
When a vicious dog bites me I direct my anger toward the owner.
But she’s now permanently off the chain.
She’s:
1. off the reservation
2. off the rails
3. gone rogue
4. beyond the pale
5. in never never land
But sadly, not an ex-parrot.
Along with the dog’s body.
“KBJ has become the equivalent of a hand grenade that Joe Biden threw into the Supreme Court”
While the Senate said, “Shiny!”
“KBJ has become the equivalent of a hand grenade that Joe Biden threw into the Supreme Court”
Or a broken sewage pipe.
Biden wasn’t above breaking pipelines when it suited him.
The disgraceful and embarrassingly infantile non-biologist lacks the temperament, intellect and character to sit on the SCOTUS bench.
“… the issue is not that she disagrees with them on the substance, but she attacks their integrity. She attacks their credibility, she attacks their good faith.”
That’s because, like all liberal hacks, she has nothing else.
If the other eight justices joined together to recommend her impeachment to the House, I wonder what would happen. If there’s “bad behavior” in a justice, it’s in a willingness to ignore the Constitution and laws in defiance of their oath of office. False swearing shouldn’t be tolerated by any judge.
Again, in what reality would >15 Dem senators EVER be willing to vote to remove her, especially when PDT would get to appoint her replacement?
And without such votes, impeachment is a waste of time.
She is a glaring example of someone trying to fit the law into her agenda not her agenda into the law.
There is nothing that screams Affirmative Action as elevating a mental midget to the Supreme Court. For her lifetime, no less!
I’ve witnessed better legal arguments from sovereign citizens during traffic stops on YouTube than this bloviating idiot.
Ouch.
Reminder that she presided over the case of the Comet Ping Pong “shooter” who came in with an assault rifle to fire a single shot through a wall into the hard drive of one of the business’s computers.
To a conspiratorial mind, it would almost seem like she put a patsy in prison after allowing him to destroy evidence of various wrongdoings, and was given a SCOTUS position based off of political quid pro quo.
“after allowing him to destroy evidence of various wrongdoings”
Through a wall? That’s one damn competent patsy.
KBJ reflects the law school that allowed her to pass with absolutely no understanding of the constitution that she reportedly studied. She reflects the application of the law through the lens of emotion. At some point she will do something out of emotional rage that will make it easier to impeach and remove her. The Senate will be hard pressed not to impeach her if the other 8 justices applaud the action of impeachment. Yes I know they wouldn’t on a practical level, but KBJ is an emotional time bomb that will explode like a grenade in a bonfire.
The thing that worries me is that she may understand the constitution enough to pass law exams. Which means, given the chance, she would manipulate court rulings to subvert the constitution to her whims. And if that’s the case, what does that say about the integrity of all the other law school graduates that are now “fully armed and operational”.
Have you seen a law school text book recently (or any time in the last 45 years)? I lived near Brown University and its bookstore was a regular haunt for me back in the 80s. Whenever I saw a new law text book, I’d look up certain SCOTUS decisions that I knew well. Invariably, they were misrepresented in the books. Knowing law students don’t have the time to verify the characterization of every case in their text books and simply accepted what they were taught, the authors of these books were uniformly misrepresenting key court decisions.
For instance, every law text book that characterizes Brushaber vs Union Pacific RR and/or Stanton vs Baltic Mining Co. (if they mention either case at all, both seminal 16th Amendment/income tax cases) as having given Congress “new powers of taxation,” when both said exactly the opposite. Referring to Brushaber, SCOTUS stated in Stanton, “…(in) the previous ruling, it was settled that the provisions of the Sixteenth Amendment conferred no new power of taxation…”
If they lied about this (and they did and I suspect they still do), what else have they been lying about? What other false “facts” have been presented to students in law schools? How much of the dysfunction in our courts stems from the misinformation that has been taught to law students for decades?
This is so bad, even Google AI gets it right:
Key Aspects of the 16th Amendment:
Purpose: It was ratified in response to the 1895 Supreme Court decision Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan and Trust Co., which ruled that a federal income tax was a “direct tax”* that had to be apportioned among the states based on population.
Legal Interpretation: Subsequent rulings, such as Stanton v. Baltic Mining Co. (1916), clarified that the amendment did not create a new tax, but instead took income taxation out of the “direct tax” category, placing it back into the category of indirect taxation, which did not require apportionment.
Essentially, the 16th Amendment removed a constitutional roadblock that had made collecting federal income taxes nearly impossible, allowing Congress to exercise its taxing authority more effectively.
*Actually, SCOTUS ruled the earlier income tax was administered as if it were a direct tax, and therefore had to be considered by the court as such. The court admitted that a tax on incomes was, in fact, an indirect tax (this was affirmed in both Brushaber and Stanton).
I think you have something there. This demographic is prone to emotional blow outs. A Richter 7 or above could get her colleagues to insist on her removal.
Would be a show for the ages.
She’s one-a-them black people who is inventing American Democracy
Everyone should stop the usage of the moniker KBJ because it actually sounds endearing. Start calling her JACKSON BROWN. Everyone does that with Alito or Gorsuch or Kavanaugh. Soon the left will claim calling her Jackson Brown to be racist, or sexist, or a conservative dog whistle for racism. It will be great. Better yet would be to refer to her as plain ol’ BJ since she cannot differentiate the sexes.
To early in the morning or a senior moment. I meant BROWN JACKSON. Call it Brown Jackson. KBJ sounds to cute for this creature. Say it a few times and it fits perfectly. Brown Jackson.
Well, she is “Running On Empty,” so your first idea isn’t as off as you think.
She’s certainly been a “Fountain of Sorrow.”
3 Republicans voted to confirm this dullard.
Murkowski, Collins and Graham. The RINO 3 stooges.
Wouldn’t have mattered
Would have been 50/50 and the drunk would have broke the tie in her favor
They were just trying to show their street crud
Biden? No, it was engineered by Obama with the intention of destroying the constitution:
Garland was appointed AG and vacated his seat on DC Appeals;
KJB was nominated to fill that vacancy;
Confirmed by the Senate;
Nominated to SCOTUS.
Since she had already undergone the Senate confirmation process for DC Appeals it became nearly impossible for Republicans to push back and not to confirm for SCOTUS.
What we are seeing today is the grenade going off exactly where Obama threw it.
She will never be successfully impeached because the Democrats would never be able to replace her with someone better suited for their purposes. Imagine what a majority of Supreme Court Justices like her would allow Democrats to do.
She isn’t any kind of problem for the Democrats. It is the other eight who are their problem.
Black, Asian, white, whatever, is not the issue even for Dems: that is merest appearance. Dems put one of their own on the Court. It is up to Republicans to ensure she isn’t the first of a majority. If Democrats have their way she will be exactly that.
I did a quick CTRL + F in the above to search for Roberts, and surprise, surprise, he was nowhere to be found.
It seems to me that as the head of the court, he is responsible for the health of the organizational culture in the court. True leaders do what needs to be done.
Roberts’ “sound-of-crickets” behavior on this is but one in a long and complex series of failures on his part. He owns the problem. He needs to be called out … loudly and regularly.
What say you?
meanwhile…….
the kjb’s gain more and more control
just read where there are some 500k from africa waiting to enter greece/eu which means the welfare state grows and grows stronger
we must be in charge long before elections occur….the mail in vote is the but one of many control mechanisms lefty uses…rcv …the threats of violence etc
we know how to combat it and take it back but the gop keeps feeding the left more power
Please, let’s stop pretending that Biden made any decisions during his installed tenure as pResident. He did whatever Valerie Jarrett instructed Obama to tell JB’s handlers what to say and do. I’m pretty sure that Jarrett got her orders from her “higher ups” who demand to remain anonymous.
Bide made headlines for stating, “I’ll get in trouble if I say that” and “I better not start the questions or I’ll get in trouble.”
“I’m not ap-posed to do this!”
He did whatever Valerie Jarrett instructed Obama to tell JB’s handlers what to say and do. I’m pretty sure that Jarrett got her orders from her “higher ups” who demand to remain anonymous.
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imagine the ruckus when karma presents the check to jarrett and obama
Republicans should run on impeaching this imposter and tell the public to vote for them if for no other reason than to dump this abberation!
Has KBJ attacked Kagan for being Jewish yet?
Obama put her in place for the purpose of discrediting the court. The congress is already quite disfunctional, and the government runs by rule bending at the executive. (Not by law-making in congress.) How else to make the executive branch even more powerful? Make the court irrational and impotent by putting ignorant lazy people on the bench, but claiming they are saints with unparalleled judicial excellence.
If you wanted a long-term plan to turn the US toward dictatorship, what else might you do?
Predictable that that mockery of the president would place a mockery of a judge
So KBJ can tell the rest of her SCOTUS colleagues what the future will bring with one poorly, likely AI-written dissenting opinion (based on the totality of what even her other lefty colleagues have chided her about openly), but she can’t tell the basic biological differences between a man and a woman without a biologist? Uhm…that’s “tell the dummy to pee in the corner of the round room” territory.
The Kenyan’s 3rd term has been a profound disaster
She is both deeply stupid and highly partisan. She also seems incapable of learning.
As I often say:
I disagree with Kagen’s interpretation of the law. But I understand them. She is liberal law professor.
I disagree with Sotmayor’s emotional appeals. But I understand them. She is a law student.
I disagree with Ketanji Brown, and don’t understand anything she is saying. She is a liberal arts major who watched one too many episodes of Law and Order.
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