Friday, December 26, 2025
Ketanji Bown-Wilson
Ketanji Brown-Jackson, no matter what you think, is not an idiot by most accounts.
She is something much, much worse: an ideologue who rejects the fundamental legal principles that underpin the Constitution. What most people interpret as stupidity is in fact a commitment not just to progressive outcomes, many of which could be accomplished through winning successive elections, but to the Wilsonian progressive vision of a technocratic rather than democratic, rules-based Constitutional order.
Ironically, she even shares Wilson's racist views, although she inverts them. Wilson was convinced that the white race was inherently superior to others, and society should be organized to ensure the dominance of whites over the other, inferior races. Jackson holds the opposite view, that white people are morally inferior and the rules of society should be employed to put them in their place.
Jackson is famously fond of expounding on her theories of government, which even her most liberal colleagues appear to find tiresome and offensive. Despite being the most junior justice, she speaks more than any other Justice—1 1/2 times as much as the next most talkative Justice, and what she says sounds kooky to anybody familiar with the Federalist Papers and the plain meaning of the Constitution.
