When the time came to pick a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, then-President Joe Biden made it very clear that his selection would not be based on merit, but identity politics. And since stepping into the role, Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has done her best to drive that point home.
On Thursday, the junior justice participated in a sit-down interview at an event hosted by the Indianapolis Bar Association. While a significant portion of the discussion reportedly focused on her life story, the most compelling part of the back-and-forth came when Jackson was asked by Obama-appointed District Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson about “what keeps [her] up at night.”
Pausing momentarily, the justice proceeded to give the answer of a stereotypical left-wing activist.
“I would say the state of our democracy,” Jackson said, eliciting applause from Magnus-Stinson and the audience.
Of course, the Biden appointee didn’t offer specifics, only adding that she is “really very interested in getting people to focus and to invest and to pay attention to what is happening in our country and in our government.”
It doesn’t take a law degree to decipher that Jackson’s “democracy” remark was in all likelihood a dig at sitting President Donald Trump. The junior justice took an indirect jab at the Republican president for his criticisms of leftists’ judicial coup at a separate event earlier this year.
“The threats and harassment are attacks on our democracy, on our system of government. And they ultimately risk undermining our Constitution and the rule of law,” Jackson said at the time.
What’s become fairly evident during her short time on the high court is that Jackson has little interest in even trying to feign the appearance of impartiality that’s required of judges. At nearly every turn, she’s allowed her personal “feelings” to dictate her public conduct and jurisprudence.
Consider her Saturday remarks at the Global Black Economic Forum, in which she openly attacked her colleagues’ recent decisions as an “existential threat to the rule of law.” That’s not the language of a serious justice, but a radical left-wing activist who views it as her job to advance leftist orthodoxy from the bench.
It’s not uncommon for SCOTUS’s most junior justices to display some semblance of deference to the body’s senior members early in their careers. As even Jackson acknowledged during Thursday’s interview, the high court boasts a long-standing tradition of respect and collegiality spanning decades.
But none of that seems to matter to the Biden appointee, who has gone out of her way to annoy her fellow justices with her unprofessional conduct and court writings. So much so that the court’s majority in Trump v. CASA dismissed her unhinged dissent as being “at odds with more than two centuries’ worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself.”
Even Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor — a radical leftist — has expressed her frustrations with Jackson clearly being out of her depth on the high court. In a “Dude, this is a Wendy’s restaurant” moment, the Obama appointee reminded her fellow leftist in an order issued earlier this week that the issues she described in her dissenting opinion were not what the justices were ruling on.
While Jackson’s antics are certainly unbecoming of a justice, they should actually be viewed as a positive development. For all the glowing media coverage trying to portray her as a bold, independent justice, the Biden appointee’s behavior makes it obvious that the only reason she’s on the high court — aside from her race and sex — is to push a left-wing agenda.
The more she opens her mouth and pens social justice warrior-style opinions, the more clear it becomes that she has no business being on the Supreme Court.