Wow. Justice Barrett came out of her corner and didn’t pull any punches when it came to Justice Jackson’s dissent in the SCOTUS decision regarding the powers of district court judges.
As a reminder:
In a 6-3 decision that handed President Trump a major victory, the Court put the brakes on runaway district judges issuing nationwide injunctions — an abuse that’s become the left’s favorite tool for stalling any policy they dislike.
Jackson showed her lack of class and skills on this one. (which makes me wonder who actually wrote her previous majority opinion). You can read the whole thing here. But here’s a couple parts–it sounds like a blog or X post rather than a Supreme Court dissent. And she threw down on her fellow Justices.
She additionally shows her contempt for the Constitution–the document she swore to uphold.
A Martian arriving here from another planet would see
these circumstances and surely wonder: “what good is the
Constitution, then?” What, really, is this system for protecting people’s rights if it amounts to this—placing the onus
on the victims to invoke the law’s protection, and rendering
the very institution that has the singular function of ensuring compliance with the Constitution powerless to prevent
the Government from violating it? “Those things Americans call constitutional rights seem hardly worth the paper
they are written on!”
Barrett’s response was epic. Here’s some bits:
We will not dwell on JUSTICE JACKSON’s argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries’ worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself. We observe only this: JUSTICE JACKSON decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary.
“No one disputes that the Executive has a duty to follow the law. But the Judiciary does not have unbridled authority to enforce this obligation—in fact, sometimes the law prohibits the Judiciary from doing so.”
It was a slapdown of major proportions, especially calling out Justice DEI by name. But it’s honestly less what this pile of steaming dissent deserved. Jackson both showed her ignorance of law and her contempt for her fellow Justices.
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