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Katanji Brown Jackson

Thursday 2nd of October 2025

Affirmative action The best that can be said of the majority’s perspective is that it proceeds (ostrich-like) from the hope that preventing consideration of race will end racism. But if that is its motivation, the majority proceeds in vain If the colleges of this country are required to ignore a thing that matters, it will not just go away. It will take longer for racism to leave us. And, ultimately, ignoring race  just makes it matter more. Katanji Brown Jackson, dissent in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v.  Harvard College and University of North Carolina © 2023 Kwiple.com
Affirmative action The Court has come to rest on the bottom-line conclusion that racial diversity in higher education is only worth potentially preserving insofar as it might be needed to prepare Black Americans and other underrepresented minorities for success in the bunker, not the boardroom … It would be deeply unfortunate if the Equal Protection Clause actually demanded this perverse, ahistorical,  and counterproductive outcome. To impress this result in that Clause’s name when it requires no such thing, and to thereby obstruct our  collective progress toward the full realization of  the Clause's promise, is truly a tragedy for us all. Katanji Brown Jackson, dissent in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v.  Harvard College and University of North Carolina © 2023 Kwiple.com
Affirmative action This contention [that it is unfair to consider race as one factor in college admissions] blinks both history and reality in ways too numerous to count. But the response is simple: Our country has never been colorblind. Given the lengthy history of state-sponsored race-based preferences in America, to say that anyone is now victimized if a college considers whether that legacy of discrimina- tion has unequally advantaged its applicants fails to acknowledge the well-documented “intergenerational transmission of inequality” that still plagues our citizenry. Katanji Brown Jackson, dissent in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v.  Harvard College and University of North Carolina © 2023 Kwiple.com
Affirmative action With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces “colorblindness for all” by legal fiat. But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life. And having so detached itself from this country’s actual past and present experiences, the Court has now been lured into interfering with the crucial work that UNC and other institutions of higher learning are doing to solve America's real-world problems. Katanji Brown Jackson, dissent in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v.  Harvard College and University of North Carolina © 2023 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Oh … I'd … say … 9 point 142 or thereabouts, which we all know is nearly a full point lower than how you rate yours.  How Katanji Brown Jackson should have responded to Lindsey Graham, who asked her  during her confirmation hearing for appointment to the Supreme Court, “How would you rate your religious faith on a scale of 1 to 10?” © 2022 Kwiple.com
History History speaks. In some form, it can be heard forever. The race-based gaps that first developed centuries ago are echos from the past that still exist today. By all accounts, they are still stark. Katanji Brown Jackson, dissent in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v.  Harvard College and University of North Carolina © 2023 Kwiple.com
Presidential immunity from criminal prosecution As far as I can tell, the majority is mostly concerned that, without immunity, Presidents might “be chilled from taking the ‘bold and unhesitating action’ required of an independent Executive.” … Our Constitution’s “separation of powers was adopted by the Convention of 1787, not to promote efficiency but to preclude the exercise of arbitrary power. The purpose was, not to avoid friction, but . . . to save the people from autocracy.” Katanji Brown Jackson, dissent, Trump v. United States © 2024 Kwiple.com
Presidential immunity from criminal prosecution Effectively, the Court elbows out of the way  both Congress and prosecutorial authorities within the Executive Branch, making itself the indispensable player in all future attempts to hold former Presidents accountable to generally applicable criminal laws. Katanji Brown Jackson, dissent, Trump v. United States © 2024 Kwiple.com
Presidential immunity from criminal prosecution I worry that, after today’s ruling, our Nation will reap  what this Court has sown. Katanji Brown Jackson, dissent, Trump v. United States © 2024 Kwiple.com
Presidential immunity from criminal prosecution In the end, then, under the majority’s new paradigm, whether the President will be exempt from legal liability for murder, assault, theft, fraud, or any other reprehensible and outlawed criminal act will turn on whether he committed that act in his official capacity, such that the answer to the immunity question will always and inevitably be: It depends. Katanji Brown Jackson, dissent, Trump v. United States © 2024 Kwiple.com
Presidential immunity from criminal prosecution To fully appreciate the profound change the majority has wrought, one must first acknowledge what it means to have immunity from criminal prosecution. Put simply, immunity is “exemption” from the duties and liabilities imposed by law. … Thus, being immune is not like having a defense under  the law. Rather, it means that the law does not apply to the immunized person in the first place. Ketangi Brown Jackzon, dissent, Trump v. United States © 2024 Kwiple.com
Presidential immunity from criminal prosecution Under the individual accountability model, because everyone is subject to the law, the potential of criminal liability operates  as a constraint on the actions and decisions of everyone, including the President. After today, that reality is no more. Consequently, our Nation has lost a substantial check on Presidents who would use their official powers to  commit crimes with impunity while in office. Katanji Brown Jackson, dissent, Trump v. United States © 2024 Kwiple.com
Presidential immunity from criminal prosecution With its adoption of a paradigm that sometimes exempts the President from the dictates of the law (when the Court says so), this Court has effectively snatched from the Legislature the authority to bind the  President (or not) to Congress’s mandates, and it has also thereby substantially augmented the power of both the Office of the Presidency and itself. Katanji Brown Jackson, dissent, Trump v. United States © 2024 Kwiple.com
 
Women [During confirmation hearings for Katanji Brown Jackson] the male Torquemadas were joined by a female inquisitor, Marsha Black- burn. The Tennessee Republican is all mag- nolia Southern charm — until she spits venom. “Can you provide a definition for the word woman?” Blackburn asked Judge Jackson, invoking the controversy over a transgender  swimmer from the University of Pennsylvania. Blackburn’s question inspired Tucker Carlson to later hold up a graphic of a woman's reproductive system, along with a silhouette of a woman so shapely that Roger Aisles would have approved. Maureen Dowd, New York Times, March 26, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com