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Old Joe Biden picked Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson because she is Leftist, black, and female, not because she is the most qualified candidate (which she may be, but again, that’s not why she was picked) or because of anything she has said or done. Accordingly, Biden’s handlers may not even know that back in 1996, Jackson wrote a “Note” for the Harvard Law Review claiming that convicted sex offenders were treated unfairly in the courts. Even if they do know, it is unlikely that they care. They’d gleefully use this “Note” as ammo against a conservative pick for the high court, but Jackson is one of their own, a reliable Leftist. Nothing she has said or done could derail her unless it is discovered that she has a MAGA hat in her closet and voted for the hated Trump.
The “Note,” which is embedded below, was anonymous, but Jackson revealed that she had written it on a Senate Judiciary Committee “Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees” when Barack Obama nominated her to be a U.S. district judge for the District of Columbia. Jackson’s “Note,” unearthed by the American Accountability Foundation, calls on judges to “change their analytical framework for evaluating the constitutionality of certain state sex offender statutes.”
Jackson wrote that “in the current climate of fear, hatred, and revenge associated with the release of convicted sex criminals, courts must be especially attentive to legislative enactments that ‘use[ ] public health and safety rhetoric to justify procedures that are, in essence, punishment and detention.’”
Jackson argued that existing sex offender regulations were overly harsh: “Although many courts and commentators herald these laws as valid regulatory measures, others reject them as punitive enactments that violate the rights of individuals who already have been sanctioned for their crimes.” She maintained that “even in the face of understandable public outrage over repeat sexual predators,” a “principled prevention/punishment analysis” would evaluate “the effect of challenged legislation in a manner that reinforces constitutional safeguards against unfair and unnecessarily burdensome legislative action.” In other words, go easy on the poor lambs.
This in itself ought to be enough to disqualify Jackson from a seat on the Supreme Court. The public has been outraged enough by the irresponsible actions of Leftist judges who coddle criminals, leaving innocent law-abiding citizens to pay the price. If this “Note” reflects Jackson’s judicial philosophy, and there is no reason to think that her views have changed in the intervening years (if they had, she wouldn’t have been nominated), her rulings on the high court will put Americans in danger.
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tgusa says
She was selected because of the color of her skin. Way to go racist democrats! And yet they celebrate Martin Luther King and roads are named after him. His message of judged by content of character rather than skin color no longer applies. Might as well toss that message on the ash heap of failed ideas. The establishment murdered it.
tgusa says
Democrats are using racism to try to make up for their racist past. That party has always been the party of racism. No matter what they do they always circle back to racism.
somehistory says
This is “affirmative action.” Just yesterday, there was a news article about a Court ruling regarding the changing of entrance exams that would favor those who wouldn’t be able to get in this particular school due to not being as mentally up to the challenge the school poses to its students. The new rules were struck down because they would be unfair to Asian students.
Affirmative action was put in place to give some a step up who couldn’t make the “grade” otherwise. To give some a better-than-fair chance to get ahead of someone who could do the job, or finish the work, better than the one being given the step up.
Now, if she’s confirmed, she’ll make idiotic rulings that favor other Blacks over Justice. She’s also very pro-baby killing…even after birth like the slime who put her on the court, “bo.”
If she had a working brain, she would realize that more Black babies are destroyed than other races…and that should matter to her enough to want the murder to stop. But, she worries more about the rapists who have to sign up to be on a list of predators when released from prison. That is, in her lame brain, “punishment” that is just so unfair to the perps.
The color of one’s skin is not something one can decide. The DNA of a White and the DNA of a Black is very close to the same thing when it comes to skin color…but that doesn’t matter to those who are trying to get things as they want them to be.
Dim bulbs will use the nomination…and if confirmed…the placement…to crow for as long as they can to say how they…mostly old White people that oprah winfrey said should be dead for things to change in Black people’s favor…are not racist.
What a big mess society is in today.
tgusa says
And yet I have read that a majority of Asians vote democrat. Does that mean intellect and common sense are in many cases mutually exclusive? Asian democrats may put that debate to rest.
somehistory says
Sometimes…in the case of many, even…*intellect* causes the one possessing it, to believe that they are superior and to throw out “common sense” as the thinking of the uneducated, the “hillbilly” and the person of low intellect.
James Lincoln says
somehistory says,
“This is “affirmative action.””
The color of one’s skin taking priority over the content of one’s character.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would be appalled.
gravenimage says
+1
jay says
I’m sorry, but it’s finally time for me to bid a sad goodbye to Jihadwatch. Not everything the Democfrat party does is evil, no more than everything President Trump did/does is laudable. I’m sorry, but we must accept our part of culpability in destroying any chance of true discourse and dialog by taking an idelogical stand on everything and anything. Sure, Democrat party is usually wrong, and their President is, sorry to say, a joke. BUT …
… in this case, Judge Jackson IS eminently qualified, not an ideologue but an honest jurist loaded with principle and integrity. She is on the leftward edge of the court, kinda like the Justice she is replacing, but if you look at her record and qualifications, and if you accept the reality that yes, Biden does get to pick, this is not at all a bad pick.
OK, OK, the prez says he’s gonna pick a Black Woman. OK, OK, we might not like that kind of affirmative action on the high court. BUT THIS IS NOT MERELY RACE-BASED. OPEN YOUR EYES and check out Jackson’s record. Don’t cherrypick a case or two to prove she’s a rabid leftist or whatever.
Good life, good night, thanks Robert Spencer for the great work with respect to the Islamist threat and for pointing out how exactly their “scriptures” are fanatical. I myself am a student of their bullshit and I will stand with you to oppose it.
Which is where Jihadwatch should, in my humble opinion, stay focussed.
JimJFox says
“Which is where Jihadwatch should, in my humble opinion, stay focussed”.
Bravo. RS has disappointed me in his CC DENIAL in the past, hopefully he has woken up to the overwhelming scientific evidence now.
Infidel says
Jim
The issue ain’t whether climate change itself is real, but what are the best ways to address it
For starters, all the solutions that the Left has pretends that humanity can survive while cutting back by orders of magnitude on energy consumption. It can’t and won’t happen. One great solution to this would be encouraging 4th generation nuclear power: if we enabled that, and built such plants in several places in the country, it actually would alleviate most of the need for coal
Then there is the issue that China is still building coal plants like there’s no tomorrow, and don’t have to comply w/ the Paris climate accord for 30 years. Our own standards are already way ahead of that agreement, but being a part of it just means making our own living more expensive.
In fact, all the cancellations by Biden in this country – of Keystone, Fracking and ANWR – all have been due to the climate change jihadis. Now forget Germany, even we are buying tons of Russian LNG, and that’s part of what is financing the war on Ukraine. Since when does Russian LNG emit oxygen, instead of carbon dioxide when burned?
If climate change is your #1 issue, then be at the forefront of a campaign for nuclear, instead of those stupid wind energy, which didn’t work in Texas when it froze, or those real-estate intensive solar panels, which are only good for dealing w/ excess loads in summer
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
Agree, 4th generation nuclear power is definitely the way to go.
We’ll need massive – and reliable – power output to charge all of those coming electric vehicles…
tgusa says
Democrats get mentioned more than Republicans Jay but lets be clear we know it is both parties. Democrats are at the fore front in the destruction of the fabric of our civilization and that weakens our defense from islamists. Democrats have proven that they are in capable of confronting real threats. Both parties are clueless to the islamist wolves in our midst. Both parties think they can change islamists ie de-nazification or some such rot. Everything is connected in differing degrees. We don’t mention Republicans because what they do is similar to a best fried stabbing you in the back whereas what democrats do is similar to being stabbed in the back by an adversary.
gravenimage says
Wait–Jay, you have to leave Jihad Watch because they say something critical about thinking that saying the legal system is unfair to sex offender is a problem?
Infidel says
This is somebody who believes that the US constitution is a living, breathing document. I’m pretty sure she believes in penumbras as well. That alone should be reason enough for the entire GOP to reject her, but Comrades Collins, Murkowski and a third senator – missed the name – plan to vote for her
I liked President Trump joking yesterday that maybe he should try and pack the court, given what Kavanaugh (and indeed ACB) has become
Tony Pearson says
I think you have missed the main argument here. Robert Spencer makes the point that Judge Jackson may be the best pick but Biden specifically chose her because she was black. This is factual and therefore worth commenting on. It is therefore right and proper that her earlier decisions and general record should be examined. Biden has an unhealthy obsession with race and it didn’t help Judge Jackson by ruling out all other candidates on the grounds of their colour.
James Lincoln says
Affirmative action in “motion”:
Imagine, after boarding a commercial aircraft, you hear on the intercom:
“This is your captain speaking. I have been promoted to this position due to the fact that I am a black female, not because of my personal aviation knowledge, skills, or abilities.
Enjoy your flight.”
somehistory says
Back in the mid ’90’s, I flew to NY and the co- pilot was a relative of one of my friends on the flight. As it turned out, she was a young black woman. It was a nice flight, but before we took off, all I knew was that the co-pilot was female. That worried me a little as a woman doesn’t have the physical strength of a man and sometimes, strength of that sort is needed.
The talk around the seats about her was how much experience she had….and that was very reassuring. Had it been her first flight where she might be in total control…because of her skin tone and gender…I would have been terrified.
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
Even a partial hydraulics failure can require much manual strength – just to control the aircraft.
https://skybrary.aero/articles/hydraulic-problems-guidance-flight-crews
gravenimage says
Biden’s Supreme Court Pick Once Claimed Judicial System ‘Unfair’ to Sex Offenders
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I’d had great reservations about Jackson, but this is especially appalling.