Why might Ketanji Brown Jackson be unsuitable as a Supreme Court Justice? Let me count the ways, or not. As a conservative, I’m just as much of a known quantity as is Jackson. Rehearsing the countless thesis’ vs. antithesis’ would be fruitless and redundant. It’s understood with mathematical precision by warring political opponents that a Supreme Court nominee may or may not be inducted based on the makeup of the Senate at that moment. The hearings are a show trial, a public whack-a-mole, often a battle having only marginal bearing on the nominee and mostly about the President. I have 99 reasons why I think Ketanji Brown Jackson should not be a Supreme Court justice but understanding ‘the game’, there really is just one reason that transcends all the usual BS and places her apart from every nominee that came before. What is a woman?
I’d openly admit that in most matters contested at the Senate confirmation hearings, that my Senators, those that are concerned for conservatism, that they have my back. As a political non-professional, not deriving any living from this, I rely on the thousands of elected, staffers, think tankers, and conservative professional media to hash through the nuances of a candidate and filter out the good and bad. I live with the results. In the case of Ketanji Brown Jackson, there are even a few signals that she’s a standard jurist, like all the rest, filtered through the elite up-bringing/Harvard/serial appointments and so forth, so that she’d act like all the rest at the end of the day, perhaps not as a bad radical activist as some claim?
At face value, the ‘woman’ confusion is the typical incredibly cynical evasiveness that marks, certainly every Democrat nominee in the last generation, maybe longer, maybe some Republicans as well? It’s calculated to buck off any ideological adversaries but also to reward her masters. She will not betray them with a single word of compromise. However, her answer eclipses law.
While the jokesters have had legitimate fun with Jackson’s feigned confusion, defining woman and gender hits at a different level of reality. If you’re prepared to violate the profundity of two X chromosomes, involatile sub-cellular components, no one should have any illusions about your fealty to the concept of human. This transcends law.
Ketanji Brown Jackson is of course a slave to the left. Let’s just all accept that up front, no surprises there, far from the first in a long line of judicial activists. Based on some of her responses, she’s far from the most qualified candidate even accepting an ideological bias. She would be on the court easily thirty years, a time frame wherein the meaning of humanity will be assaulted in a manner far outside the reach of much of the body of law. These questions will arise due to species below us, intelligent machines over us, and logical software woven through everything. No one should see her as qualified to speak to any of those questions while she, a woman, has no idea what she is, much less interpreting challenges to what it means to be human. Ketanji Brown Jackson plus four future like-minded justices dedicated to erasing truly innate femininity and ten thousand years of human exceptionalism is unacceptable.