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United States Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson continues to demonstrate why she always has been, and remains, unqualified for the job of being a Supreme Court justice.
Both Justice Barrett (joined by four additional justices) and Justice Sotomayor (the second least-qualified Supreme Court justice) have expressed their opinions on how off-base Justice Jackson is.
In a recent interview with ABC, Justice Jackson “doubles down” on the erroneous idea that her job is to express her personal feelings, rather than to interpret the law considering history and details.
Justice Jackson seems to think that her role is to offer her free-wheeling thinking about what she thinks should be, rather than what is. In other words, she thinks she should be some type of super-legislature, rather than an appellate judge.
Ketanji Brown Jackson should have spent her time and energy running for Congress instead of plotting a path to the Supreme Court.
But maybe it’s not entirely her fault. United States law schools since at least the 1970s have taught a misguided and erroneous view of the role of courts. A view that Justice Jackson seems to have absorbed.
Nonetheless, that Justice Jackson clings to those discredited views does not reflect well on her analytical thinking. Analytical thinking being a key requirement for Supreme Court justices.
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By judge standards she is an activist , plane and simple. Thats why she is there. We all know how she will rule on anything that’s a political issue.
Shame on any Republican that voted for her.
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With full knowledge that this is my cynical view developed from being in and around Washington, those wishing for a conservative SCOTUS should be happy that Justice Jackson appears not up to the task. Biden had a choice to make in replacing Stephen Breyer, a legitimate and generally well thought of (liberal) Justice. But he chose someone who appears not to be an intellectual leader and may, in fact, be unable to express serious views that can forge a left-of-center consensus. That’s not a bad thing.
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If all we care about is political appearance, Jackson is great because she appears so poorly. But she may be on the court for another 25 years. That is a long time for our country to absorb such a poor choice. I've said it here before. This is Biden's legacy.
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This is what lawyer, Hugh Hewitt said about Jackson: "She's not a scholar."
There was a brief streak about five months ago that I thought I could follow most of this lawyer stuff. I can't. The thing broke me was when the National Archives had some BS lawyer talking about why it was OK for Bill Clinton to have some cassette tape tapes in a sock drawer, but it was really bad if Trump had some papers in the basement of Mar-a-Lago. I couldn't follow either side at all. I don't know what those words put together mean. I was just in a 90 minute meeting with the lawyer and you could tell the guy just loves this stuff and I think we got about 70% of it. lol
One thing that I've noticed from personal experience. My dad and my grandfather pressured me on college and job choice. Neither one of those guys had even abilities to be what I had to be or make any judgment about what they were pressuring me to do. You can be really good at anything, but you have to make sure that your skills are a certain degree of even enough to go into it. Mine were all over the place.
I found it really interesting that Republican lawyers really liked the last Attorney General when he was a judge. They thought he was really fair and he listened. Patient. Etc. He sure was a mess when he became the AG.
Government force just sucks. Be advised.
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I can't get over how all of these lawyers and people in government think they can do anything about Trump just because they don't like him. What are they thinking? I was horrified at the thought of him being president, but he hasn't been that bad to be that freaked out about it. Except for the tariffs, I really like all of it
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