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But Jackson didn’t just stop at ignoring precedent — she also tried to inject some late-night comedy timing into her writing. She actually included a parenthetical “wait for it,” as if her dissent were a stand-up routine rather than a legal document.
As I understand the concern, in this clash over the respective powers of two coordinate branches of Government, the majority sees a power grab — but not by a presumably lawless Executive choosing to act in a manner that flouts the plain text of the Constitution. Instead, to the majority, the power-hungry actors are . . . (wait for it) . . . the district courts.
It’s hard to imagine any of the Court’s great legal minds stooping to such gimmicks. And then it got worse.
She took her dissent into science fiction territory. She actually wrote, “A Martian arriving here from another planet would see these circumstances and surely wonder: ‘what good is the Constitution, then?’”
I wonder what Martians would think about DEI hires?
Seriously, though, that was embarrassing. The highest court in the land is not the place for extraterrestrial thought experiments. The American people deserve justices who are anchored in reality, not ones who rely on what imaginary Martians might think of our Constitution.
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I know Joe Biden promised to nominate a black woman to the court, but couldn’t he have found someone with some intellectual rigor, respect for the Constitution, or seriousness befitting the Supreme Court?
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