[Federalist] One really has to admire the hutzpah of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Not only is she comfortable signing off on some of the most asinine opinions imaginable, but she’s also shameless in gaslighting her conservative colleagues on "partiality" — an issue she and her fellow liberal justices know quite a bit about.
The latest incident occurred Monday evening when the Supreme Court released an order pertaining to its recently released Louisiana v. Callais decision kneecapping race-based redistricting. As The Federalist reported, the order fast-tracked transmission of the ruling to the lower courts so they and Louisiana could correct the latter’s unconstitutional congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterms.
Clearly disturbed about the Pelican State fixing its racially gerrymandered map before the general election, Jackson penned a solo dissent lambasting her colleagues’ decision to authorize the ruling’s transmission in accordance with existing Supreme Court rules. She more specifically attacked the court for declining "to stay on the sidelines and take no position by applying our default procedures" as to "avoid the appearance of partiality."
"But, today, the Court chooses the opposite. Not content to have decided the law, it now takes steps to influence its implementation," Jackson wrote. "The Court unshackles itself from both constraints today and dives into the fray. And just like that, those principles give way to power. Because this abandon is unwarranted and unwise, respectfully, I dissent."
It’s hard not to see the irony in all of this. While Jackson feigns worry about the order’s effect on "the appearance of partiality," it is her and her liberal colleagues who have made "partiality" and politics central to how they operate on the high court. |