DGS49
Diamond Member
As you watch or read about the coming hearings on the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, you must never lose sight of the real issue.
The role of the Supreme Court is to determine, in individual, real cases, whether the law has been properly applied, and whether either the law or its application in a given case is consistent with the requirements of the United States Constitution.
Parenthetically I will point out that the USSC does not have either the power or the opportunity to make general binding statements about whether a law is totally off-base, stupid, counterproductive, or pointless. Their jurisdiction is limited to what is stated in the foregoing paragraph.
Leftists on the Supreme Court have a long history of looking at a case, deciding how they think it should turn out, then writing long meandering opinions to justify their votes, which usually fly in the face of the clear meaning of the Constitution. If an opinion is longer than twenty pages, it is almost certainly a justification of violating or ignoring the Constitution, or simply writing new "Constitutional" provisions, "out of whole cloth," as the saying goes. These circumlocutions have resulted in the creation of a fictitious "Right of Privacy," found nowhere in the Constitution, the creation of "Affirmative Action," which was then morphed into the quest for "diversity," the "right" to get an abortion, and other "Constitutional" abominations.
Nobody cares that Judge Jackson is "Black" or female, and she certainly seems like a nice enough person. No one will vote for or against her confirmation because she would be "the first Black female justice in U.S. history." The fact is that any competent attorney has the intellectual horsepower to be a Supreme Court Justice, especially given the fact that they can hire the best law school grads in the country every year to be their clerks.
The Left will support her, violently if necessary, because they know that she will, for many many years, be a traditional Leftist jurist, willing to bend, fold, and/or mutilate the Constitution in order to justify the desired Leftist result in any case. The Right will oppose her for the very same reason. Indeed, she has already indicated in her opinions from the bench that she is willing to ignore the Constitution to reach the results she desires.
She will be confirmed and take a seat on the court. She will not be accused of being a rapist, pedophile, drunk, drug addict, or bigamist. Only Democrats do those things.
But don't be distracted. The real issue is her willingness to ignore the Constitution and precedent in order to vote THE RIGHT WAY on contentious cases.
The role of the Supreme Court is to determine, in individual, real cases, whether the law has been properly applied, and whether either the law or its application in a given case is consistent with the requirements of the United States Constitution.
Parenthetically I will point out that the USSC does not have either the power or the opportunity to make general binding statements about whether a law is totally off-base, stupid, counterproductive, or pointless. Their jurisdiction is limited to what is stated in the foregoing paragraph.
Leftists on the Supreme Court have a long history of looking at a case, deciding how they think it should turn out, then writing long meandering opinions to justify their votes, which usually fly in the face of the clear meaning of the Constitution. If an opinion is longer than twenty pages, it is almost certainly a justification of violating or ignoring the Constitution, or simply writing new "Constitutional" provisions, "out of whole cloth," as the saying goes. These circumlocutions have resulted in the creation of a fictitious "Right of Privacy," found nowhere in the Constitution, the creation of "Affirmative Action," which was then morphed into the quest for "diversity," the "right" to get an abortion, and other "Constitutional" abominations.
Nobody cares that Judge Jackson is "Black" or female, and she certainly seems like a nice enough person. No one will vote for or against her confirmation because she would be "the first Black female justice in U.S. history." The fact is that any competent attorney has the intellectual horsepower to be a Supreme Court Justice, especially given the fact that they can hire the best law school grads in the country every year to be their clerks.
The Left will support her, violently if necessary, because they know that she will, for many many years, be a traditional Leftist jurist, willing to bend, fold, and/or mutilate the Constitution in order to justify the desired Leftist result in any case. The Right will oppose her for the very same reason. Indeed, she has already indicated in her opinions from the bench that she is willing to ignore the Constitution to reach the results she desires.
She will be confirmed and take a seat on the court. She will not be accused of being a rapist, pedophile, drunk, drug addict, or bigamist. Only Democrats do those things.
But don't be distracted. The real issue is her willingness to ignore the Constitution and precedent in order to vote THE RIGHT WAY on contentious cases.