Professor Jonathan Turley on ‘The Judicial Calvinball of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’
“Jackson’s sense of liberation has increasingly become the subject of consternation on the court itself, as she unloads on her colleagues in strikingly strident opinions.”
Professor Turley of George Washington University has written a new column examining Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and her odd approach to rulings.
From The Hill:
The judicial Calvinball of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
“I just feel that I have a wonderful opportunity.”
Those words of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson came in a recent interview, wherein the justice explained how she felt liberated after becoming a member of the Supreme Court “to tell people in my opinions how I feel about the issues. And that’s what I try to do.”
Jackson’s sense of liberation has increasingly become the subject of consternation on the court itself, as she unloads on her colleagues in strikingly strident opinions.
Most recently, Jackson went ballistic after her colleagues reversed another district court judge who issued a sweeping injunction barring the Trump Administration from canceling roughly $783 million in grants in the National Institutes of Health.
Again writing alone, Jackson unleashed a tongue-lashing on her colleagues, who she suggested were unethical, unthinking cutouts for Trump. She denounced her fellow justices, stating, “This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist. Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this administration always wins.”
For some of us who have followed Jackson’s interestingly controversial tenure on the court, it was crushingly ironic. Although Jackson accused her colleagues of following a new rule that they must always rule with Trump, she herself is widely viewed as the very embodiment of the actual rule of the made-up game based on the comic strip of Calvin and Hobbes. In Jacksonian jurisprudence, it often seems like there are no fixed rules, only fixed outcomes. She then attacks her colleagues for a lack of integrity or empathy.
To quote Calvin, Jackson proves that “there’s no problem so awful that you can’t add some guilt to it and make it even worse.”
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I don’t care about her opinions. Just rule on the constitution you stupid entitled coddled twit.
Diversity is our strength.
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DEI pours sand in the bearings of society.
since the foundation of the blmplo squad is false equality
nothing can be done or said unless it supports what happened in Africa thousands of years ago
black rulers over lighter skinned/white people
see it our big blue cities as their glory days come back
feel it in your bones as their street armies mangle you
read it in your scrolls aka laws/regs
even defending yourselves from their onslaught leads to incarceration over and over
we all know fjb was the GREAT WHITE DOPE
and that djt IS THE GREAT PEOPLES HOPE
the left dismantled trump during #45 with their DemVid19 takeover
they are once again beating down the doors using a mixture of street thuggery and fdr>>lbj>>obama>>fjb laws to circumvent common sense
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She has got to be the worst selection for SCOTUS ever. SCOTUS Justices are supposed to rule on issues before them based on the Constitution, not their feelings.
If she is incapable of doing that, she should resign and start her very own podcast so she can share her “feelings” and rail against the 80%+ of the American people who don’t share them. Of course, only lunatics with blue hair, tattoos and piercings would listen to her, but that would be as it should be.