Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson made her first oral argument appearance Monday in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, the Supreme Court’s first case of the term. It centers on whether certain wetlands warrant federal government protection.
I’m proud of Justice Jackson and her spirited and on target defense of the EPA and its mission.
Will the court’s fascist contingent deal with this case in a common sense manner with the good of our country and legal precedent as considerations? I’m not confident that will happen.
Apparently the relationship in the Supreme Court between “Conservative” and more liberal Justices is eroding. Hopefully Ms. Jackson will speak her mind often.
For a new Justice whose fate is likely to be one of dissent, she is off to a spectacular start by clearly pointing out where Gorsuch’s partisan right wing arguments are hollow.
Let’s not forget the Gorsuch family business is to gut the EPA, a crusade begun by his mother during the Reagan Administration.
She is spunky, but spunk doesn’t win against judges who always vote the wishes of their political benefactors.
“Schiff, echoing Gorsuch (and Justices Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh, who raised similar points about ignorant property owners) in his rebuttal…”
These mansplaining, pink jackasses are gonna spend the rest of this term running from a smart, assertive, self-confident woman faster than community-spread at Golden Corral.
The anti-Thomas, thank goodness! You go Justice Jackson!!!
Most poorly named package dinner ever and yet wildly popular!
Oh no you don’t. I’m here now. We are going to tighten up the reasoning around here.
The decisions will still be 6-3 in favor of the Nazis, though.
I’m glad she’s there. Clearly a great appointment. Can we give her 5 votes?
Women are marginalized in too many areas of our society, and smart women of color? Fuhgeddabout it. These conservative dolts haven’t listened to a word Justice Sotomayer has said over the years, and she says it all so clearly and eloquently. They have no reason to start now.
I kinda think that Gorsuch should have recused himself from this and any other cases involving the EPA…his mother was appointed EPA administrator by Reagan with the express mandate to make the EPA as ineffectual as possible. To kill it, in other words. It’s galling to see him continuing Mommy’s work for the second time in back-to-back terms.
@serge Amy Coney Barrett should recuse herself from every case that comes before SCOTUS on abortion since she wrote some time ago her goal was to eliminate the abomination called abortion. Of course, it was that opinion which got her nominated and confirmed in under an hour.
Thank you Associate Justice Jackson.
Whatever happened to the concept that ignorance of the law is no excuse?
I didn’t realise that edgarant had already made this point. Sorry…
Brown Jackson is arguing the law while
Gorsuch was having a séance with his mom.
That’s okay — it’s worth repeating, and often!
Isn’t there an old line, “ignorance of the law is no defense.”
Jackson is merely stating what every real estate buyer is strongly encouraged to do: due diligence. Or are Repubs exempt from due diligence?
In other news, SCOTUS denied cert in Aposhian v Garland, a challenge to a ban on bump-stock devices, and accepted cert in Gonzalez v Google, involving the Anti-terrorism Act and section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, an action alleging Google, Twitter and Facebook are liable for disseminating ISIS information and recruiting new members etc. If you’re curious, a summary of the 9th Cir.'s decision and that decision itself are here: Gonzalez v. Google, LLC, No. 18-16700 (9th Cir. 2021) :: Justia