Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nomination, Ketanji Brown Jackson, has credentials enough to justify her nomination to the highest court in the land. She is a graduate of Harvard, she was previously a district, and most recently appellate federal judge. White serving as district judge, appointed by then-President Obama, she was involved in several major cases involved with the Trump administration.
In these key rulings, she demonstrates a willingness to bend the law and the constitution to fit into any frame that supports the clearly leftist ideology she seems to uphold. Her rulings to attempt to prevent the Health and Human Services Department from removing funding of abortions being conducted by Planned Parenthood clearly demonstrate her willingness to go outside the bounds of law and constitution to use the court to support her factional political worldview rather than be a true steward of Constitutional American Law.
Here are some highlights of some of her key rulings:
‘Presidents are not kings’: 5 notable decisions by Ketanji Brown Jackson
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In November 2019, Jackson issued a decision in the case of Committee on the Judiciary, United States House of Representatives v. Donald F. McGahn II, ruling against then-President Donald Trump’s attempt to prevent an administration figure from testifying before Congress.
“In 2018, Jackson made headlines when she invalidated three executive orders issued by then-President Trump, which were designed, in her words, ‘to restrict the scope and effectiveness of federal employees’ right to collective bargaining,’” they noted.
…. At issue in the case was if the Department of Homeland Security could, in keeping with an announcement from July 23, 2019, designate people who have been in the U.S. illegally for up to two years for “expedited removal.”
….. In 2017, Jackson ruled against an environmentalist organization’s efforts to get a federal body to expedite possible additional regulations on offshore oil drilling.
Known as Center for Biological Diversity v. Ryan Zinke, et al., the case involved an environmental group trying to get the Department of the Interior to complete a review on policies regarding oil drilling.
Jackson ruled against the group, concluding that the activists could not compel a federal agency to complete its ongoing review, “much less demand that an agency publicly announce its decision to decline to revise its existing rules.”
….This included the 2018 decision in Policy and Research, LLC v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in which Jackson concluded that the effort violated federal law.
“Jackson held the Department of Health and Human Services unlawfully terminated plaintiffs’ grant funding without explanation, thus violating the Administrative Procedure Act,” explained the Center for Reproductive Rights.
“A month after this decision, Judge Jackson issued an opinion in Healthy Futures of Texas v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, again ruling in favor of grantees who brought a class action lawsuit that similarly challenged the early termination of funding.”
The general thrust of the MSM support of the Biden nominee seems to be in portraying her as a woman of the people who will bring the spirit of the people back to the court, a shining light of immigration producing great Americans, and being a black woman face that can finally make black women in America feel validated. Finally.
The GOP will most likely focus on her being the face of leftist quotas over substance, an argument that is based on a presupposition that being a Judge on this High Court requires skills that few humans possess, but, really, these judges have demonstrated throughout human history that they themselves don’t meet the standards of this mythological skilled and unbiased jurist.
Perhaps finding jurists that reassure the people that we all have representation in this great American experiment is something that might ‘allow’ for something like a general quota on our high court. The problem is more in finding people, whether they have ethnic diversity or not, that will limit their rulings to the literal and original intent of the Constitution, or will they demonstrate willingness to apply sophistry to ‘justify’ ruling to advantage their faction rather than rule as a neutral judge based on our Rule of Law.
On that front, it goes without saying that a party who stands in open opposition to the very idea of America itself, an America they simply call white supremacism, would not nominate one of what are probably plenty of black women willing to rule as an American and not a DNC party member.
The RNC as token opposition will vote against the confirmation as much as they need to for the tokening, but, be assured DNC, there will be 2-3 GOPers willing to confirm another leftist whose very political identity is anathema to an American Rule of Law Constitutionally Limited Representational Republic.
She gets confirmed 52-48
MSM Narrative
Ketanji Brown Jackson could bring public defender background to Supreme Court
From www.wmra.org
2022-03-05 21:51:00
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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:
Here’s another way that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will bring diversity to the Supreme Court – the fact that she’s a former public defender. Those are lawyers who represent people who are accused of crimes but cannot afford their own representation. In fact, she is the first nominee to the high court with this background and one of only a handful to sit on the federal bench. In fact, only 7% of all active federal judges are former public defenders. That’s according to the Federal Judicial Center, a research agency that keeps track of things like this. We wondered why so few public defenders go on to become federal judges, so we called Martin Sabelli. He is a former federal public defender and now trains public defenders in San Francisco. He’s also the president of the board of directors of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Jackson, in high court mix, traces law interest to preschool
From www.newstribune.com
2022-02-07 10:02:35
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WASHINGTON (AP) — When Ketanji Brown Jackson’s younger daughter was 11, she drafted a letter to the president suggesting her federal judge-mom for a vacancy on the Supreme Court.
“Dear Mr. President,” Leila Jackson wrote. “She’s determined, honest and never breaks a promise to anyone even if there are other things she’d rather do. She can demonstrate commitment and is loyal and never brags. I think she would make a great Supreme Court justice.”
Jackson wasn’t nominated for the vacancy her daughter was writing about, one created by the 2016 death of Justice Antonin Scalia. And Republican lawmakers blocked then-President Barack Obama’s ultimate nominee, Merrick Garland, who is now President Joe Biden’s attorney general.
Biden picks ‘daughter of former public school teachers’ for SCOTUS- POLITICO
From www.politico.com
2022-02-28 15:00:00
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BIDEN HIGHLIGHTS KBJ’S PUBLIC EDUCATION TIES: Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s pick for the Supreme Court, will head to the Senate this week as she begins the traditional charm offensive to kick off her nomination process.
— On Friday, Biden introduced Jackson, the first-ever Black woman selected for the high court, as “the daughter of former public school teachers,” calling her “a proven consensus builder, an accomplished lawyer and a distinguished jurist on one of the nation’s most prestigious courts.” He also noted her parents graduated from Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
— Jackson serves on the board of several educational institutions. She is a member of Harvard University’s Board of Overseers and serves on the board of trustees at Georgetown Day School. She previously served on the advisory school board of Montrose Christian School in Maryland.
GOP Prognostication
Republicans weigh approach for Ketanji Brown Jackson nomination fight :: WRAL.com
From www.wral.com
2022-03-07 10:03:38
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CNN — Republicans are bracing for the next Supreme Court confirmation battle, signaling that they’re eying a measured but “painstaking” approach to an historic nominee who would not change the lean of the court and who could be confirmed without any GOP support.
For Republicans, the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who currently serves on the prestigious DC US Circuit Court of Appeals, may be inevitable. But the way they handle the confirmation hearing — particularly in the context of her being the first Black woman nominated for the high court — could have far reaching implications in the midterm elections.
“It’s going to be a very good election for Republicans and one of the ways we can screw this up is to go scorched earth on Judge Jackson’s nomination,” said Mike Davis, former chief counsel for nominations at the Senate Judiciary Committee who is now informally…
GOP Sen. Rick Scott signals he is willing to consider voting for Jackson
From thehill.com
2022-03-05 21:22:40
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Republican Sen. Rick Scott (Fla.) signaled he is willing to consider voting for President Biden
Scott said he is looking to meet Jackson and discuss how she sees the role of the judiciary branch.
“Do you understand you’re not the legislative branch, your job is to interpret the law, enforce the law, but not make new law? And so, that’s what I’ll be asking her. And on all judges, that’s the only thing I really care about. Are you going to do that? And are you…
Conservative Opposition
In Search for Supreme Court Nominee, Biden Champions Discrimination
From www.dailysignal.com
2022-02-24 21:33:23
Deroy Murdock
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President Joe Biden promised to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer with a black female jurist.
“The person I will nominate will be someone with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience, and integrity. And that person will be the first black woman ever nominated to the United States Supreme Court,” Biden said Jan. 29 in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. “It’s long overdue in my view. I made that commitment during the campaign for president, and I will keep that commitment.”
Biden reportedly has spent recent days interviewing prospective nominees—specifically, U.S. District Court Judge Julia Mitchell Childs, U.S. Circuit Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, and California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Reid Kruger.
All three of these contenders satisfy Biden’s two demographic requirements. White, Hispanic, and Asian-heritage women have been invisible during Biden’s judicial powwows. Men—including black men—need…
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Harvard group hosted ‘anti-Semitic’ speaker
From www.foxnews.com
2022-03-07 07:26:40
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FIRST ON FOX: President Biden’s nominee to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer was part of a Harvard University student group that hosted a speaker with a history of anti-Semitic remarks, Fox News Digital has learned.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was a member of the Black Students Association (BSA) her senior year at Harvard, according to her yearbook, when the Harvard BSA invited Leonard Jeffries, the controversial then-City University of New York professor of Black studies and Black studies department head, to speak.
Jeffries — the uncle of House Democratic Caucus chairman Hakeem Jeffries of New York — has been heavily criticized for his past anti-Semitic remarks, and the 1992 Harvard speaking engagement drew robust campus protests.
The Diversity Champion
Poll shows stark racial gap on opinions of Black woman on high court – CNYcentral.com
From cnycentral.com
2022-02-24 14:13:40
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Americans are starkly divided by race on the importance of President Joe Biden’s promise to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court, with white Americans far less likely to be highly enthusiastic about the idea than Black Americans — and especially Black women.
That’s according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research that shows 48% of Americans say it’s not important to them personally that a Black woman becomes a Supreme Court Justice. Another 23% say that’s somewhat important, and 29% say it’s very or extremely important. Only two Black men have served on the nation’s highest court, and no Black women have ever been nominated.
Sounding off: Supreme Court needs diversity
From triblive.com
2022-03-05 19:30:00
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Negative tropes being used to critique President Biden’s decision to nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Black woman, to the Supreme Court may be missing the point (“Biden demonstrating his racism again.”)
In these bitterly divisive times, when our self-serving legislative and executive branches are increasingly irrelevant, the court may be our Constitution’s best hope for survival.
The court has maintained its preeminence throughout our history because no jurist’s background or presidential patron is a reliable barometer of how they will rule. Justices Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O’Connor proved far more moderate than Ronald Reagan.
In the same vein, a historic appointment does not guarantee political payback. Lyndon Johnson’s nomination of Thurgood Marshall lost the Democratic South. O’Connor’s appointment did not close the GOP’s gender gap. More Latinos voted Republican in the last election, even though a Democratic president nominated Justice Sonia…
Ketanji Brown Jackson Is the Supreme Court Justice we need now
From afro.com
2022-03-07 00:23:36
Excerpt:
By Ben Jealous
It is with profound joy that I write these words today: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has been nominated to become our nation’s first Black woman Supreme Court Justice. From a pool of outstanding Black women attorneys, jurists and legal scholars, President Biden has chosen Judge Jackson for her stellar credentials and brilliant legal mind. We are overjoyed by this nomination; now the Senate needs to move quickly to confirm her.
In the coming weeks, we will all get the opportunity to learn more about Judge Jackson’s story and her record. Her legal credentials are outstanding: a double-Harvard alumna, earning both her undergraduate and law degrees with honors; a clerk for three federal judges – including the one she will succeed, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, who called her “great” and “brilliant”; a star in private practice and as a public defender in Washington, D.C.
The country will also come to know that Judge Jackson wrote…
Why the president’s Supreme Court nomination matters » WDET 101.9FM
From wdet.org
2022-02-28 18:25:02
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A senior opinion writer explains why Ketanji Brown Jackson brings a perspective to the court that makes the institution more representative of the American public.
A Black woman has never been appointed to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. That could be set to change, as the Biden Administration is nominating Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace outgoing associate justice Stephen Breyer — who has served on the nation’s top court since 1994.
“I think that’s the importance of diversity — not just in terms of race and geography — but diversity in terms of background on this court. You have a lot of former federal judges [on the court], it’s really homogenous in that sense.” — Kimberly Atkins Stohr, senior opinion writer at The Boston Globe
As Senate considers Judge Jackson, a lawyer recalls the profession’s ugly history | Opinion
From minnesotareformer.com
2022-03-07 12:06:25
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I attended the University of Minnesota Law School — at the time and arguably still a top 20 law school — and graduated in 1981 with a decent grade point average. I spent my law school summers clerking for a small law firm.
Yet, I couldn’t find a job for after law school. So, one day I went to visit one of the male partners in the small firm where I had clerked. The firm was too small to take on a new associate, so I went there to ask the partner why I couldn’t find a job. His answer was stark and dismaying:
“Firms and others that have job openings have already hired their token woman, and they aren’t hiring any more women.”
When I went to law school, 41% of my class were women. So, my reply to my former boss was that, “Someday there will be so many women lawyers they will have to hire us. They will have to make us partners. They will have to appoint us to the bench.”
Around this time, I learned about a lunch with Democratic…
As a teen born to immigrants, Biden’s SCOTUS pick tells me I belong
From www.inquirer.com
2022-03-07 10:00:44
Excerpt:
Last month, President Joe Biden nominated the first Black woman, Ketanji Brown Jackson, to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Even before announcing his pick, Biden committed to nominating a Black woman, which sparked a conversation about the role diversity plays on a political level. Conservatives have criticized Biden’s choice; the Wall Street Journal editorial board argued that it “elevates skin color over qualifications.” Sen. Ted Cruz went so far as to say the nomination is “an insult to Black women.”
I was 10 years old during the 2016 presidential elections, and while my name wasn’t on a ballot, my future certainly was. While there were several parts of the Trump administration that upset me, it was the racism he fostered that affected me the most. When I look back on those four years, I think of his embrace of anti-immigrant rhetoric, his response to white supremacy (“very fine people”), his spreading of the “birther” conspiracy, and his use of social media to escalate…
