Sister Ketanji Brown Jackson continues to impress us with how over her head she is in the role of a United States Supreme Court Justice, so I have to ask. Who clerks for that? She doesn’t understand the Constitution or even grasp the most straightforward concept of separation of powers as it’s defined.
Nearly every Justice, including The Wise Latina, has expressed concern over what comes out of her mouth or her pen. A few months back, it became too obvious to ignore.
In a 7-2 ruling on Friday, the justices lifted a lower court’s order that barred the Trump administration from deporting illegal aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who entered the U.S. under the Biden administration parole program.
Social Justice Jackson dissented, wondering,
[This decision] undervalues the devastating consequences of allowing the Government to precipitously upend the lives and livelihoods of nearly half a million noncitizens while their legal claims are pending.”
I responded with,
[The decision] by the Biden Admininstration to ignore exsiting immgration law and process undervalues the devastating consequences of allowing the Government to import hundreds of thousnads of illegal immigrants (millions) upending the lives and livelihoods of an entire nation of actual citizens – most of them minorities – ignoring their legal “claims” in the process.
Sister Jackson is an ideologue before she is a Supreme Court justice, and the Constitution is just a piece of paper separating judicial activism from undermining the separation of powers. It would be better for everyone if the unelected lifetime appointees decided these things, a premise held by most of the center-left judges placed into these roles. In most cases, however, they are not as obviously ignorant as KBJ, os so lacking in the intellectual agility to hide it.
This time around, she’s uncomfortable with the notion that the guy constitutionally tasked with running his branch of the government might want to run it his way and fire whoever he pleases, especially the head of so-called “independent agencies.”
So having a President come in and fire all the scientists, and the doctors, and the economists, and the PhDs, and replace them with loyalists and people who don’t know anything, is actually not in the best interest of the citizens of the United States.
These issues should not be in presidential control. Can you speak to me about the danger of allowing, in these various areas, the President to actually control the Transportation Board and potentially the Federal Reserve and all these other independent agencies?
In these particular areas, we would like to have independence. We… we don’t want the President controlling.
I guess what I don’t understand from your overarching argument is why that determination of Congress—which makes perfect sense given its duty to protect the people of the United States—why that is subjugated to a concern about the President not being able to control everything.
At its simplest, it would be unconstitutional for Congress to create power within the executive branch that the Chief Executive, the president, does not control. So simple that Alito and Kavanaugh blew it up without having to take a breath.
Justice Kavanaugh:
“I want to give you a chance to deal with the hard hypothetical. When both Houses of Congress and the President are controlled by the same party, they create a lot of these independent agencies or extend some of the current independent agencies into these kinds of situations so as to thwart future Presidents of the opposite party.”
I do not have to wonder what the thought process would be if these “independent agencies” were bastions of the flame of tradition, ensconced by Trump to thwart the capricious whimsy of swampy, deep state proglodytes. They’d be infiltrated and undermined, warped to the Left’s evil purpose: a cabal of unimpeachable assets that exist to do the bidding of Democrat-Socialists.
That’s what they are now, and that is how the Left has taken over so many of our institutions, making them as distant and unaccountable to the people as possible, established to put a wall between voters and accountability within their government.
If we didn’t learn that during the COVID response, the problem with experts operating in Federal Agencies is lost on more than the likes of Sister Ketanji Brown Jackson.
