MSNOW, "The View" and Joy Reid will be infuriated.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, confirmed to the Supreme Court in 2022, has long since worn out her welcome. Indeed, add Justice Samuel Alito to the list of people fed up with former President Joe Biden's Supreme Court DEI appointment.
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. . . "Two paragraphs later, Alito noted Jackson's complaint that waiving the usual 32-day delay creates an "appearance of partiality."
"But the dissent does not explain why its insistence on unthinking compliance with Rule 45.3’s default rule does not create the appearance of partiality (by running out the clock) on behalf of those who may find it politically advantageous to have the election occur under the unconstitutional map," Alito wrote.
"Then, Alito denounced Jackson's absurd "principles give way to power" claim as "a groundless and utterly irresponsible charge."
" 'Unthinking," "groundless," and "utterly irresponsible" -- that's three more words or phrases one rarely sees in justices' responses to one another.
"As for Jackson's claim that the Supreme Court had unshackled itself from constraints, Alito had an answer for that, too.
"'It is the dissent’s rhetoric that lacks restraint," he concluded.
"All things considered, it was a remarkable but wholly unsurprising response from Alito.
"After all, Jackson has reportedly left even liberal colleagues Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor periodically frustrated.
"Likewise, in June 2025, the nominally conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who sometimes votes with the liberal minority, gave Jackson a stinging rebuke by accusing her of "embracing an imperial Judiciary."
"Indeed, Jackson does not understand either the Constitution or its purpose. She once worried, for instance, that the First Amendment, designed to constrain the government, might actually constrain the government.
"Biden appointed Jackson because she is a black woman. He might have appointed any number of capable black female jurists. But he appointed her.
"In other words, this is what happens when liberals prioritize skin color."
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