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AP Photo/Alex Brandon I had no illusions that Ketanji Brown Jackson would have a “Road to Damascus” moment once seated on the Supreme Court, but during Monday’s oral arguments in Merrill v Milligan , Justice Jackson demonstrated that she misapprehends history and has trouble understanding simple words. During her confirmation, she did not know what a woman was. Equally, her reading of the word “citizen”, as found in the 14th and 15th Amendments seems to not match our common understanding.
By doing so, she’s invented a new form of textualism and originalism that is at odds with close to 150 years of precedence and logic. On Thursday, faithful leftist Toadie, Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post authored a screechy op-ed in which Rubin claims Jackson established herself as a “potent intellectual force”, and the woman who single-handedly “blew up” the arguments of “right-wing” Justices hearing the Merrill case.
Jackson did neither.
From what I have heard so far, Jackson is not a legal luminary, nor is she right about the 14th and 15th Amendments . Rubin claims the majority will declare that a second “black majority” congressional district would be “unconstitutional”.
[Jackson] blew up that argument, illustrating why she is such a potent intellectual force and why faux originalists trying to undo remedies for enduring racism have so much to lose.
Rubin has been a consistent voice of silly, bombastic, and screechy legal and cultural takes for the better part of a decade. Thursday’s OpEd demonstrates that Rubin has retained her crown of screeches.
During oral arguments on Monday, Jackson claimed that contrary to the plain text of the 14th Amendment , it grants special rights, and special protections for post-war freed slaves called “Freedmen”. It’s an intentional misreading of history and the plain text of the amendment.
During her colloquy with Alabama’s Solicitor […]
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