You might not have caught it amid the daily chaos, but President Trump just notched another MASSIVE WIN at the Supreme Court—proving once again that when the chips are down, he ALWAYS comes out on top.
That’s the bitter pill Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson had to swallow in her latest ranting dissent.
Sure, we’ve all seen the rogue lower courts play games to derail Trump’s agenda, but the Supreme Court? Lately, it’s been delivering justice with a capital J, handing Trump key victories that even the doubters can’t ignore.
But for Jackson? Anything less than a total shutdown of Trump’s policies is apparently the court “bending over backwards” to play favorites. In her solo dissent on the NIH grants case, she basically accused the entire bench of being Trump’s personal cheer squad.
The drama unfolded over Trump’s move to axe about $783 million in NIH grants funneled into woke pet projects like diversity, equity, inclusion research, COVID-19 studies with a liberal twist, and gender identity explorations. Jackson wailed that this was killing “life-saving biomedical research,” but the majority saw it differently, partially greenlighting the cancellations while keeping some checks in place. It was a fractured 5-4 split, with Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Barrett crossing lines to deny full blocks on Trump’s actions.
Jackson’s meltdown? Epic. “This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist,” she fumed. “Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.” She slammed the court’s “shadow docket” for fast-tracking Trump wins, calling it inconsistent rule-bending for self-serving ends.
Talk about projection! As conservative legal eagle Jonathan Turley pointed out in his scathing takedown, Jackson’s the real Calvinball queen. She’s built a rep for solo diatribes so over-the-top that even her liberal buddies, Justices Sotomayor and Kagan, won’t touch them. Turley nailed it: Jackson attacks her colleagues for lacking integrity while ignoring fixed rules to push her own outcomes. She’s shattered civility traditions, raging against rulings her own side joined, like in Stanley v. City of Sanford where she accused “pure textualists” of hiding biases—despite Kagan signing on.
In a recent interview, Jackson bragged about feeling “liberated” to spill her feelings in opinions. But Turley sees it as ironic: She’s the one playing fast and loose, adding guilt and hyperbole to every loss, quoting Calvin himself to make things worse.
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