Justice Jackson: Dangerous Loon.
Ketanji Brown-Jackson is a frighteningly dangerous woman.
The fact that she is only 55 years old and has a lifetime appointment to America’s highest court may the best argument ever made for term-limiting Supreme Court justices.
It’s also a reason to pray that Democrats never again control both the White House and Senate lest we find her penning majority opinions rather than radical, half-baked, borderline-insane, dissents.
Yesterday, for instance, she was the lone dissenter in an 8-1 case that overturned a Colorado law that forced therapists to affirm mentally ill chuildren who believe they can change sexes.
It was a clear First Amendment case and Jackson displayed appalling ignorance of the meaning of free speech.
She was appointed by the virtue signaling mid-wit, Joe Biden, who wanted to be the president to appoint the first black woman to the Court, and the best he could find was Jackson, a left-wing activist.
Jackson was confirmed by a 53-47 vote. All Democrats voted for her and they were joined by three Republicans: Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney.
As a lone extremist on the court, which is comprised of six conservatives, two liberals and her, Jackson serves as a living, breathing cautionary tale against the appointment of far-left radicals.
During her senate confirmation hearing Jackson famously said she couldn’t define the word “woman” because she wasn’t a biologist. The correct follow-up would have been to ask if she could define the word dog without being a veterinarian.
Alas, that didn’t happen. And her apparent stupidity proved no barrier to her appointment.
The issue decided by the court this week in Chiles v. Salazar was an over-reaching Colorado law that forced therapists to engage in gender affirmation of confused youngsters and prohibited them from helping children accept their sexuality using what’s known as “conversion therapy.” That’s an unfortunate term, suggesting that trans is a natural state and therapists are trying to wrench kids away from their entirely normal desire to change sexes, when exactly the opposite is true.
Jackson prefers a system were therapists are forced to pretend that men can become women and vice versa. That’s compelled speech and a scary concept.
Newsweek explained yesterday’s ruling this way:
Colorado’s law at the center of the Chiles v. Salazar Supreme Court case bars licensed counselors from engaging in “conversion therapy” with minors, broadly defined to include any talk therapy that seeks to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, while expressly allowing counseling that affirms identity exploration or gender transition. In a major First Amendment ruling, the Supreme Court said that distinction amounts to unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination when applied to speech‑only therapy, holding that states may not dictate which perspectives counselors can express to willing clients—even in the name of regulating professional conduct—without meeting the Constitution’s most demanding free‑speech standards.
This decision is so common sense that both liberals and conservatives came together. Only the sole loon objected.
Last year, in another 8-1 decision, Jackson argued that the president should not be allowed to reduce the federal workforce. Jackson’s dissent was so bizarre that Sonia Sotomayor wrote a separate concurrence, taking aim at Jackson’s flawed arguments.
Jackson is what happens when far-left ideologues gain power.
We cannot let that happen.
