For those who've been following the shit-show that is the Ketanji Brown Jackson Supreme Court confirmation hearing (which has been nothing like the Brett Kavanaugh hearing), you've been either rooting for her to become the first black woman on the Supreme Court or wondering how a creature who can't even define what a woman is ("I'm not a biologist," KBJ says, accidentally implying that womanhood is indeed a function of biology) is still being seriously considered for a seat on the highest court in the land.
Jackson has been questioned about her past leniency, as a judge, in a series of cases involving child pornography. (Leftie "fact checkers" are currently hard at work trying to show that Jackson's record isn't as bad as it seems.) The issue of her LSAT scores came up at some point, but her scores will not be divulged. She is unable to take a firm position on when life begins (of particular concern to those in the abortion debate), and she thinks illegal aliens are merely "non-citizens," which seems to put them on the level of innocuous tourists. She is aligned with the Critical Race Theory and 1619 Project crowd, although she initially tried to deny this.
Two things to note, neither of which is original. First, it should be obvious, given how current systems are structured in the US, that the bias always and only leans one way, so Brown Jackson is going to be confirmed to the Supreme Court, replacing outgoing leftie Justice Stephen Breyer. Second, Brown Jackson's elevation to the Supreme Court won't shift the already-tenuous balance of power. Among the conservatives on the court are several squishes, including Trump appointees Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, both of whom have already proved to be willing to vote woke when the chips are down. The Supreme Court's overall leanings won't be affected by the addition of Brown Jackson, but given the dunderheaded responses she's given during her hearing, it's obvious to me that the court's intellectual candlepower is about to suffer a fatal blow.
I joked on Instapundit, thanks to Brown Jackson's leniency regarding child pornographers, that her initials, KBJ, stood for Kids Be Juicy.
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