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Why Ketanji Brown Jackson is hell-bent on destroying the Supreme Court

The call is coming from inside the house. 

The Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais has made progressives even more determined to delegitimize the court — and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is among them. 

In a dissent involving a post-decision procedural question, Jackson accused the majority of acting out of pure partisanship.

Her opinion said that the court “unshackles itself” from all constraint and “dives into the fray” (meaning the partisan fray).

In its jurisprudence, “principles give way to power.”

It is acting with an “abandon” that is “unwarranted and unwise.”

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These harsh charges occasioned a stinging and well-deserved rebuttal from Justice Samuel Alito.

But, merits aside, the tenor and substance of the Jackson dissent captures the mindset of a left that is increasingly determined to destroy the Supreme Court in order to save it. 

The technical matter under dispute was whether the court would wait 32 days to finalize its decision in Louisiana v.........

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