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

Momdani "is a typical know-it-all who actually knows nothing. His real-world experience is less than that of typical high school student from flyover country."

 Issues & Insights

"Unlikely, on both counts. The 33-year-old is a typical know-it-all who actually knows nothing. His real-world experience is less than that of typical high school student from flyover country."

Townhall

" 'Zohran Mamdani, winner of the Democratic Party’s New York City mayoral primary, is overflowing with Marxist ideas of how to govern that are so lousy that it’s hard to believe he got more than his own vote in Tuesday’s election. Each of them is horrendous, from free bus services to rent control to punitive taxes on those who create prosperity, but none are quite so laughable as his proposal to establish a chain of city-run grocery stores.

"Mamdani’s campaign literature – overflowing with empty leftist jargon – says if elected he “will create a network of city-owned grocery stores focused on keeping prices low, not making a profit.” The mission “is lower prices, not price gouging.” 

"In an interview, the socialist Mamdani said he wants “a pilot program of one store in each borough that builds on the feasibility study that was done in Chicago,” which, incidentally, was never released and has been put on a dusty shelf where it will grow moldy.

"Apparently not even that city’s Marxist mayor believed he could make the idea work.

"It’s nearly impossible to imagine any adult would propose opening government-owned grocery stores. The concept might make for spirited debate in a junior high social studies class. In the real world, though, there are consequences.

“If the city of New York is going socialist, I will definitely close, or sell, or move or franchise the Gristedes locations,” says John Catsimatidis, the CEO of the Gristedes chain, which “has been feeding New Yorkers for over 100 years.”

"This should alarm Mamdani. It won’t. He’ll be glad to get rid of a dirty profit-monger who doesn’t belong in his socialist utopia.

"Far from New York is Erie, Kansas, which became known as the “small town that saved its only grocery store — by buying it.” The city took over Stub’s Market in early 2021 after learning that it was to close.

"But it didn’t go well. The Wall Street Journal reported in October 2023 that it was “losing money almost every month.” City Clerk Jamie Janssen told the Journal that the goal was “to narrow losses to under $100,000 this year.” Losses had reached $132,000 the year before, even though volunteers stock the goods, some of which are donated by local businesses." . . .

Blue-State Socialism: You Wanted It, Now You Get It … Good And Hard   

. . ."We’re not gloating here. The Democratic Party was once a serious political group that based its popularity on appealing to centrist blue-collar working-class Americans and moderate urban liberals. The extreme left was largely, though not entirely, marginalized. "Today, that’s sadly no longer true. Take California." . . . 

Mamdani promises “freebies”   . . ."Mamdani is a ludicrously inexperienced candidate who tends to speak aggressively and insistently, which is the tone of an immature know-it-all. His personal work experience is extremely limited and there are no notable accomplishments marking his life since he graduated from Bowdoin College.

"As a true Marxist, his campaign derives its impetus from the communist slogan of “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” Since life is sustained at a basic level by the air we breathe and the food we eat, he has promised to have government run grocery stores where food prices will be kept down because the stores will not pay property tax or rent. As someone who had many students from the former Soviet Union after it collapsed in 1991, I heard many stories about obtaining food in the USSR under communism where all the grocery stores and butcher shops were government-owned.

"Students regaled me with stories of how family members would have to line up for hours at butcher shops to obtain even one chicken. Furthermore, to even be certain that a decent chicken awaited the customer after a long wait, bribes had to be paid ahead of time to those running the shops. The range of items for sale was quite limited. There was a pathetic lack of choice in the former USSR, a country big on promises but weak on delivery." . . .

Democrats Discover Innovative Strategy Of Promising Free Stuff To Stupid People   (Babylon Bee parody) 

  . . ."This is really fantastic stuff," said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. "Free stuff for stupid people's votes? What a breakthrough! All we have to do is lie about how much stuff we can give away, and those horrible Republicans will never hold office again." . . .

How the Transgender Movement Turned the Left Against Women

 Victor Davis Hanson

"Transgenderism is an old phenomenon. It was very, very rare, a very small percentage of the population. Sometime around 2005 to 2015, it exploded as a civil rights issue. And the numbers have been vastly inflated. It’s been trendy among young people on campus. But it has almost destroyed female sports in a way that’s ironic, tragically ironic, because the Left once was a protector and the champion of female sports and now it’s de facto, it’s destroyer."

Victor Davis Hanson, a senior contributor for The Daily Signal, is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and host of "The Victor Davis Hanson Show." His website, The Blade of Perseus, features columns, lectures, and exclusive content for subscribers. 

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AOC, Psaki, and Mamdani rejoice in New York

 

Rich Terrell

Jen Psaki Fawns Over Zohran Mamdani 

 . . ."Psaki’s full embrace of Mamdani without a shred of caution for his socialism suggests an emerging mood among the Democratic Party that the response to the party’s foundering after Kamala Harris’s defeat should be to push further to the left.

"That would seem to contradict the initial conclusions the party drew from its defeat, which seemed to be that its radicalism on gender ideology and critical race theory had gone too far and that it had drifted away from pocketbook issues to its detriment. Nevertheless, it seems some Democrats are increasingly concluding that backing away from advertising its most extreme social positions so prominently does not preclude the party from pursuing a radical agenda when it comes to the economy." . . .

New York Democrat says Mamdani is ‘too extreme’ to lead NYC… "At least two moderate House Democrats from New York are criticizing New York City's presumptive Democratic nominee for mayor, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani.

"Socialist Zohran Mamdani is too extreme to lead New York City. His entire campaign has been built on unachievable promises and higher taxes, which is the last thing New York needs," Rep. Laura Gillen, D-N.Y., said in a statement Wednesday."

"Beyond that, Mr. Mamdani has called to defund the police and has demonstrated a deeply disturbing pattern of unacceptable antisemitic comments, which stoke hate at a time when antisemitism is skyrocketing. He is the absolute wrong choice for New York." . . .

. . . "She and Suozzi have both been known to break from their own party on issues like law enforcement and illegal immigration during her brief time in Congress so far.

"They're also breaking from Democratic leaders in her criticism of Mamdani, a 33-year-old self-proclaimed democratic socialist whose platform includes city-owned and operated grocery stores.

"Both House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in public statements on Wednesday that they had spoken to Mamdani since his victory." . . .

Zohran Mamdani’s shock win over Andrew Cuomo fuels rumors of AOC 2028 presidential run: ‘Broadens her horizons’

"Speculation is swirling about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s plans for 2028 after she successfully endorsed dark-horse socialist Zohran Mamdani in the heated New York City Democratic mayoral primary.

"Many observers believe the lefty “Squad” member will try to move up from her House seat — whether to the Senate or even the White House — in the aftermath of Mamdani’s stunning upset over ex-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Tuesday night.

“ 'It just continues to open more doors,” Corbin Trent, Ocasio-Cortez’s former spokesperson and author of America’s Undoing Substack  told The Post. “It just broadens her horizons.” . .  .

"But the democratic socialist’s win is also exciting Republicans who will have plenty of “fodder” — such as Mamdani’s pie-in-the-sky plans for government-run grocery stores and his anti-police and anti-Israel rhetoric.

"Those issues will be tough for Democrats to “navigate” between now and the 2026 midterms, according to a fourth party insider." . . .