Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who, short of some unforeseen misstep, is almost sure to be elevated to the supreme court, hast left every Senate hearing speechless, or rather, she may as well have.
Even though Justice Jackson's judicial record is, as the Editorial Board of The Wall Street Journal put it, “thin,” it is clearly progressive. She has a soft-on-crime history dating back to her representation of Guantanamo Bay detainees and child molesters, where she was essentially advocating on the side of the criminal. She fully acknowledges the precedent of Roe v. Wade and is fully aligned with the pro-abortion movement.
All this, and by far one of her most dangerous attributes is that she holds to an “expansive” view of individual rights which spans “beyond those listed in the constitution;” In other words, she will vote whatever way the progressive left wants here to vote regardless of what the constitution says.
And if you still don’t get it, she will essentially be a legislator, not a judge/interpreter.
This was a top-tier qualification for any justice when the Biden Administration began its search, and we can be sure that the one they landed on will not fall short.
All this controversy topped with harsh interrogation by Republican representatives, and we know less about Ketanji Jackson than when the Senate hearings began. The Supreme Court nomination hearings are essentially a joke. A type of choreographed dance where the judge tries to seem interested, concerned, and responsive but doesn’t utter a single meaningful word.
She is everything a judge should not be, and yet, she will be seated on the highest court of the land within the month, where she will vote with the progressive wing of the Supreme Court every time, without fail.
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