Dullard On The Court. Part II.
Ketanji Brown Jackson is a dullard. Part II.
Yep, this was her argument for bestowing citizenship on the offspring of illegal aliens.
“I was thinking, I, a U.S. citizen am visiting Japan. And what it means is that if I steal someone’s wallet in Japan, the Japanese authorities can arrest me and prosecute me,” Jackson said. “It’s allegiance meaning can they control you as a matter of law. I can rely on them if my wallet is stolen to, under Japanese law, go and prosecute that person who had stolen it. So there’s this relationship, even though I’m just a temporary traveler, I’m just on vacation in Japan, I’m still locally owing allegiance in that sense.”
“Is that the right way to think about it? And if so, doesn’t that explain why both temporary residents and undocumented people would have that kind of allegiance just by virtue of being in the United States?”
No, that is not the right way to think about it, Justice. Are you SURE you went to Harvard?
If you go to Japan and steal a wallet you do not owe allegiance to Japan. And you certainly aren’t a citizen. You are a foreign thief about to be prosecuted by Japanese authorities and unceremoniously deported.
(By the way, Japan does not have birthright citizenship. For a baby to be a Japanese citizen that child must have Japanese blood and at least one parent must be a Japanese citizen.)
Following Jackson’s logic, if someone breaks into your home and refuses to leave your property, they are now a member of the family and entitled to their share of any inheritance.
It’s worth remembering that before Joe Biden put her on the Supreme Court Jackson spent eight years on the DC District Court. More of her rulings were overturned than nearly two-thirds of her peers.
Any wonder?
Look, chances were always slim that Trump’s executive order, declaring that the offspring of illegal aliens should not be granted citizenship, would be upheld by the highest court.
But Jackson’s idiotic analogy ought to fill every American with dread. This woman is 55 years old and has a lifetime appointment. She’s going to be a problem for decades.
Frankly, if this is the best argument you have for giving every illegal alien or tourist who crosses the border and drops a baby here automatic American citizenship, your side should lose.
It probably won’t. Unfortunately. But Justice Jackson did the “magic dirt” crowd (those who believe there is something miraculous about having a baby on American soil) no favors with this specious argument
According to Jackson and her ilk a wealthy Chinese communist can visit the U.S., drop a baby, take the baby back to China and in 18 years this newly minted member of the CCP can vote in American elections.
Lucky us.
Common sense should tell us that this is not what the framers of the 14th Amendment intended when they crafted an addendum to the Constitution that guaranteed citizenship to freed slaves and their offspring.
You know it. I know it. Jackson knows it. But that’s where we are.
Wait, who was it who coined the phrase, “Our Constitution is not a suicide pact”?
Well, whaddya know, that it was another Jackson: Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson. This brilliant jurist is best known for presiding over the Nuremberg trials. In a 1949 dissenting opinion in a free speech case styled Terminiello v. Chicago Jackson wrote that the U.S. Constitution is not a "suicide pact.” Jackson argued that constitutional rights, such as free speech, should not be interpreted to force the government to allow actions that destroy society or the state itself.
It’s a pity that Ketanji Brown Jackson lacks the wisdom of the earlier Justice Jackson.
