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Via U.S. Democratic Socialists

BOOM: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson HUMILIATED Kavanaugh PUBLICLY, to his face. She broke a long standing code of "being civil..." but like the rest of us, she's just had ENOUGH of his quiet stomping on the constitution.

Her words were short, but they were brutal, and said to the perfect audience.

The clash took place during a prestigious public event for lawyers and judges at the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., where Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Brett Kavanaugh appeared together on stage.

Supreme Court justices rarely criticize each other’s conduct in public, much less as they are sitting right there. Yet Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson openly challenged Brett Kavanaugh over how the Court has repeatedly intervened to help the Trump administration through emergency rulings.

Jackson began by directly calling out the surge in emergency appeals.

These cases are often decided quickly and without full briefing, a process widely known as the “shadow docket.” She argued the Court itself created the incentive for more of these filings.

Jackson: I just feel like this uptick in the court's willingness to get involved is a real unfortunate problem. It's not serving the court or this country well.

It got a big round of applause from the educated crowd. Kavanaugh sunk in his seat.

She explained that frequent interventions send signals to lower courts about how the Supreme Court is likely to rule, distorting the judicial process before cases are fully decided.

Jackson: It creates a warped kind of proceeding.

Kavanaugh attempted to defend the Court’s behavior. His argument was procedural rather than substantive. All he could sputter out is...

Kavanaugh: None of us enjoy this. We have to have the same position regardless of who is president.

But he knew it was a lie. Everyone there knew.

It might have seen like a small moment, but it was momentous -- a changing of the tide. No longer will SCOTUS sit by idly while MAGA hands Trump the democracy we fought 250 years for.

He got what he deserved; this humiliation is just the beginning.

Mar 11
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