Joe Biden has finally made his choice on which black, female judge he’ll send to SCOTUS after intentionally ignoring everyone everyone else qualified.
From Jake Tapper:
According to a source who has been notified about the decision, President Biden has decided to nominate to the Supreme Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 25, 2022
Jackson, 51, has served as an assistant federal public defender, a commissioner on the U.S. Sentencing Commission, and on two prestigious federal courts. She will be the first African-American woman in the history of the United States to be nominated to the US Supreme Court. pic.twitter.com/vmM4HVI4Ns
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 25, 2022
“She will be the first African-American woman in the history…” These hacks are already singing her praise even though everyone else was excluded from the pool who wasn’t black or female. She is essentially an affirmative action pick by Biden for the high court.
As far as her record it doesn’t look good. Fox News points out that even Democrats on the same DC court overturned some of her rulings:
“Judge Jackson’s record of reversals by the left-leaning D.C. Circuit is troubling for anyone concerned about the rule of law,” Judicial Crisis Network president Carrie Severino told Fox News Digital on Tuesday. “For example, in Make the Road New York v. Wolf, a D.C. Circuit panel composed of a majority of Democratic nominees concluded that Jackson had set aside a Trump administration rule where there was no legal basis to do so.”
“Cases like these suggest that Jackson might be willing in politically charged cases to ignore the law to deliver a particular policy outcome, and that’s not what we want to see from a Supreme Court justice,” she continued.
During Jackson’s 2021 confirmation for her current position, conservatives pointed to her track record of overturned rulings.
One 2019 case involved an order that expanded the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) definition on which noncitizens could be deported. Another overturning involved a trio of orders on federal employees’ collective bargaining power.
Jackson’s DHS ruling was overturned in a 2-1 decision by the D.C. Circuit Court, which said reviewing the DHS policy did not fall under the Administrative Procedure Act.
The judge’s ruling on the three collective bargaining orders was overturned unanimously by the D.C. Circuit Court, which ruled that Jackson did not have jurisdiction to adjudicate the case.
She sounds like exactly the kind of pick that Joe Biden would choose, someone who is as partisan as it gets. So no big surprise here and unless a single Democrat comes out against her, she’ll sadly end up on the Supreme Court. The only consolation is that she’s replacing another activist judge.