How do you fix a Justice who’s a moron?
How can you help a judge who cannot judge?
Is there a phrase describing Justice Jackson?
“A DEI curse,” “a Justice whose brain is fudge”?
Many a thing you know you’d like to tell her
Many a thing she ought to understand
But how can you justify
A Justice who will defy
All logic and law to follow a woke demand?
Oh, how do you fix a Justice who’s a moron?
Can law survive this fool who can’t be canned?
The recent horrified response to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s assorted gibberish and idiotic comments during the oral argument regarding the birthright citizenship issue only amplified the dawning realization that President Biden inflicted on the Supreme Court and the nation the most unqualified Justice in its history, and that’s saying something.
Richard Nixon almost got Harold Carswell on the Court, and he was so mediocre that a GOP supporter in the Senate argued that he should be confirmed because less-than-stellar people should be represented on the Court too. Justice Harry Blackmun, who wrote the abysmal Roe v. Wade opinion and the even more head-exploding decision “explaining” why Major League Baseball should be exempted from the antitrust laws (“Baseball is cool” would adequately describe his logic), looks like Oliver Wendell Holmes compared to Ketanji Brown Jackson. Heck, Justice Sotomayor is a veritable Scalia compared to her fellow DEI Justice.
This is incredible a depressing. What can be done about it?
Presumable nothing. If one could impeach a Justice for manifest incompetence, Jackon’s dissent in the recent case of Chiles v. Salazar would surely justify it. Colorado had banned “conversion therapy,” so licensed counselors could not engage in “any practice or treatment” that “attempts or purports to change” a minor’s sexual orientation or gender identity. The law imposed penalties for those violating the law, including a $5,000 fine and the potential loss of their licenses, even if the therapy was exclusively talking.
Ring any bells? Here’s a hint: “Freedom of speech.”
These bans on such “talk therapy” that endangers LGBTQ orthodoxy are scattered through the statutes of “blue states” across the nation. As I find the arguments for conversion therapy denigrating to gays and others, I had to check the blog archives to make sure that I have been consistent in opposing efforts to make such treatment illegal. Whew! I have.
During the oral argument on this case in October, I wrote,
“One more thing: if this dispute doesn’t prove for all time that progressives are remarkably skilled at holding opposing beliefs in their heads without feeling any discomfort, nothing will. The Left is fighting like honey badgers to allow school personnel to talk kids into thinking they are girls trapped in boys’ bodies or vice-versa, resulting in life-wrenching hormone treatments and surgery, but insist that conversion therapy for gays must be banned as harmful.”
Ethics Alarms 
This is why I think it’s become unarguable that in a general election, the Republican needs to get the presumption of support unless something terrible comes out. The Democrats have turned into the party of radical university professors, and they are unapologetic about it.
I hate one party rule. One party rule tends to lead to that one party becoming corrupt because I believe power has that tendency for most human beings, but it’s hard to see an alternative.
Jackson’s position tracks with most liberals, the college intelligentsia, and people who act like they are too sensitive to hear an opposing argument. There is no longer an intellectual sense of rugged pursuit of truth in the open frontier to be discovered by hard work and investigation.
They claim they trust experts, but that’s not really what’s happening. If the experts shifted, these people would just say the “right wing” took over the institution and it wasn’t trustworthy anymore. They trust their emotional reactions based on looking at the world as a giant kindergarten circle or some kind of therapist’s office.
Biden has pretty much assured now that Jackson is going to go down as one of the worst justices in all of the court’s history by nominating someone who has no business on the court. Because she’s so unapologetically inept, I think she will rightfully deserve that label. I hope she changes course, but I don’t see that ever happening.