Miss Jackson If You're Nasty
Ketanji Brown Jackson takes center stage with the leftist media as backup dancers.
The media is in full KBJ protection mode.
I listened to some of the hearings on SiriusXM while I was working, but last night, I watched a little of CNN’s coverage of the Ketanji Brown Jackson hearings and kept thinking how much they looked like the backup dancers as Janet Jackson sang “Nasty Boys”:
“I'm not a prude (no)
I just want some respect (that's right)
So close the door if you want me to respond (ooh ooh yeah)
'Cause privacy is my middle name
My last name is Control
No my first name ain't baby
It's Janet
Miss Jackson if you're nasty...”
It was a funny mental image to see KBJ out front with the entire batch of CNN anchors and pundits dancing in time as she sings about how nasty the Republicans are – especially Hawley, Cruz and Mike Lee.
Miss Jackson, indeed.
I saw nothing impressive about KBJ. She answered questions about her judicial philosophy by talking about her “process” of adjudicating – that tells me she is a technician rather than a thinker. Her depth of knowledge about the Constitution and cases like Dred Scott seems to be a little below my level (but as far as I know, I haven’t been nominated for the Court), so that was a bit disturbing.
I sort of agree with Tucker Carlson’s assessment – her views are the views of the standard, Ivy League educated, upper class, white liberal – with one caveat – her views are those of a contemporary liberal, which is to say a progressive, complete with all the racial animus.
KBJ is has been married to a white guy for 25 years. Her husband is from a well to do Boston family, her husband’s twin lives here in Salt Lake City and the family apparently has a place in Park City (the local CBS affiliate ran a piece on her Utah connections with pictures of the family in Park City – but that report has vanished from the air and their website).
I wouldn’t bring this up - mostly because I don’t care - but I will because black progressives called Clarence Thomas a “traitor to his race” because he is married to a white woman. As the saying goes, if Democrats didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have any standards at all.
While I think Hawley, Cruz and Lee asked relevant questions, the Democrats spent the first two thirds of their time speechifying about how bad the Republicans are and then telegraphing what questions they were going to ask and how KBJ should answer them – and she easily complied with their direction.
She never answered the hard questions, especially those about CRT, the definition of a woman, and the kiddy porn sentencing. I think she came off as sympathetic to those defendants and someone who really doesn’t really think trafficking in child porn is too big of a deal.
Of course, she is getting boosted not because she is a bright bulb. She is black, a woman and a down the line progressive, guaranteeing she will always be on the far left of every situation. That is her only appeal.
She appears to be an adequate lower court judge and based on her answers, I think her current role on the DC Circuit as the replacement for Merrick Garland might be a little over her head – she should not be allowed to go any farther up the ladder. I don’t see her making powerful, persuasive arguments that will change the minds of the other justices.
She is sort of a Trojan Horse, a mild-mannered judge with the potential for radicalism once she doesn’t have to worry about confirmation.
I do think she is smarter than the “wise Latina”, Sonia Sotomayor, who is an open embarrassment to the Court. Sotomayor, another justice selected based on identity politics, is the Supreme Court’s Mazie Hirono.
Combined with Sotomayor, KBJ will bring down the Constitutional IQ of the Court another few points and bring it closer to an unelected legislative body that is more concerned with outcomes than following the Constitution.
But, thanks to the three Republicans who put her on the DC Circuit (Susan Collins, Lindsey Graham and Lisa Murkowski), it is going to be very difficult to stop her now, especially in an evenly divided Senate.
At least this is a lefty for lefty swap and won’t change the alleged 6-3 conservative majority.
Associate Justice Jackson, if you are nasty.
And we on the right are nothing if not nasty.
LBJ'S "Great Society" is nearly complete. Following Sonia Sotomayor, Jackson is the second Affirmative Action hire on the Supreme Court. The WOKE celebrate the end of the United States and even the "non-political" FBI are holding a party today to celebrate the fact they will never be forced to prosecute Hunter Biden for child pornography.
100% nailed it again Mr.Smith