Amy Coney Barrett rips Ketanji Brown Jackson over dissent in birthright citizenship case

 NY Post  

“Holy s—, this is about as brutal as I’ve ever seen SCOTUS be on one of their own,” attorney Kostas Moros wrote on X in response to Barrett’s “imperial Judiciary” quote. “Translated: ‘you are so stupid that you aren’t even worth responding to.'”

"Conservative Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett stunned veteran bench watchers Friday with a blunt takedown of liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s “extreme” dissent in the landmark birthright citizenship case in which the Supreme Court curtailed lower court use of universal injunctions.

"“We will not dwell on Justice Jackson’s argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries’ worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself,” wrote Barrett, the court’s second-newest justice, in a jaw-dropping rebuke of her colleague, the newest justice.

"“We observe only this: Justice Jackson decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary.”

"Barrett had authored the majority opinion in the case, the most consequential on the docket this term, which gave President Trump a major win by limiting the power of district judges to block his actions.

"Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor penned the main dissent for the left flank of the high court, which Jackson joined." . . .

“The FACT that six Justices were OK with signing onto an opinion where Justice Barrett took a personal shot at Justice Jackson is a VERY STRONG indication that Jackson has alienated her colleagues and there is a growing lack of respect for her work,” mused X user Shipwreckedcrew, whose profile describes them as a former federal prosecutor.

" 'Justices circulate Memos among with their legal views on certain cases in order to bring others around to their thinking. Given what she has written in her dissent, imagine the memos that Jackson must have sent around in this case.” . . .  Emphases mine, TD

Justice Barrett gives Justice Jackson the nastiest judge-on-judge smackdown I’ve ever seen   Andrea Widburg

"With apologies to Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson must have been appointed based on her XX chromosomes (even though she doesn’t know what a woman is) and her melanin level. Take those away, and she is a truly dim bulb. But now that she’s on the Supreme Court, she’s a dim bulb with dreams of an all-powerful (leftist) judiciary.

"However, showing that the more intelligent people on the Court have finally lost patience with her, in today’s excellent decision saying that lower courts may no longer issue universal (or nationwide) injunctions, Justice Amy Coney Barrett gives Jackson a smackdown the likes of which I’ve never seen in a Supreme Court decision.

"The Supreme Court issued Trump v. CASA, Inc. this morning. Here are some key points from the main opinion." . . .

.Let me say again that, in all my years of reading appellate and supreme court decisions, whether state or federal, I’ve never seen anything like this. And so, while the opinion was a great win for the Trump administration and a necessary brake on out-of-control leftist judges, what social media caught was the fact that Jackson has clearly worn out her welcome amongst the members of the court with IQs over 100. Indeed, even Sotomayor and Kagan wouldn’t join her dissent, while six of the justices signed on to the main decision.

Blame must be assigned where it belongs; to the witless Biden and his unlearned handlers who placed Judge Jackson in this unfortunate position and set her up for predestined failure. Sadly, I see her on the opposite end of the spectrum from Justice Clarence Thomas.TD

"Ketanji Brown Jackson is a great example of how DEI feeds racial prejudice. When you elevate morons just because of their skin color, people get the mistaken idea that all people of that skin color are morons. It's a terrible thing to do to people."

Joel Berry Managing Editor of @TheBabylonBee, bestselling author of Postmodern Pilgrim’s Progress, USMC vet, grumpy dad