a brutal beat-down! You know that’s gonna leave a mark!
Jackson’s dissent veered into unhinged territory, and she wildly accused the administration of asking the court for “permission to engage in unlawful behavior” simply for challenging the use of universal injunctions. It was less a legal argument than a melodramatic outburst that was heavy on theatrics, light on logic.
… Barrett, writing for the majority, didn’t just settle for a routine legal reasoning. She delivered a withering rebuke to Jackson’s dissent, slicing straight through the hollow rhetoric and exposing her radical rewrite of two centuries of constitutional law for what it was: ideological fantasy posing as legal reasoning. She didn’t hesitate, didn’t hedge, and delivered the blow with unflinching clarity:
I’ve had great hopes for ACB, and have been bitterly disappointed. I hope this represents a shifting of the tide for her, because it was just masterful!
Can you say, “Taken out back and shown how the west was one?” Ketanji Brown Jackson can tell you from first-hand experience how that works. She has LIVED it…