Labeling Justice Jackson’s latest dissent ‘wacko’

Andrea Widburg writes for the American Thinker about the latest indefensible complaint from the U.S. Supreme Court’s most recent addition.

It’s no secret that Joe Biden nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the United States Supreme Court because she is a black woman. In other words, she was not chosen for her judicial acumen, but for her political identity.

That goes a long way to explaining the absolutely lunatic dissent she issued to a Supreme Court order. That order stayed a California district court judge’s ruling blocking President Trump from ordering agency heads to produce plans for possible “Reductions in Force.” What makes Jackson’s dissent even crazier than its lack of any intellectual foundation is her open hostility to her fellow justices and the president. …

… The American Federation of Government Employees (“AFGE”)—a union that exists only because John F. Kennedy made a promise to the mob (even Franklin Roosevelt wouldn’t unionize government employees)—was aghast at the thought that the federal bureaucracy might shrink. So, the AFGE hastened to a friendly court in Northern California, and the judge obliged by holding that EO 14210 was unlawful.

The Trump administration sought to have that order stayed pending appeal to the Ninth Circuit, a request both the district court and the Ninth Circuit refused. However, the Supreme Court granted the stay. What’s so amazing is that the Supreme Court’s order has an intelligent concurrence from Justice Sotomayor. …

… Justice Jackson responded to this simple order with a 14-page dissent that not only seeks to rule on the substantive issue that was not before the Court (whether a president can fire federal employees) but also lambastes her colleagues and the President. For decades, I’ve read Supreme Court opinions that span centuries, and I’ve never seen anything like this.

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