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Supreme Showdown

“Justice Jackson skips over that part because analyzing the governing
statute involves boring legalese.” —Associate Justice Amy Coney
Barrett in the June 27, 2025, majority opinion in Trump v. CASA.

Within her new opinion, Justice Barrett deeply probed
the mind of Justice Jackson, who she totally disrobed,
exposing an ideologue who’s bored by legalese,
since she ignored all case law from the last two centuries.

She’s shown there is no precedent that she won’t over-ride,
and her dissent makes it quite clear how much that she decried
Imperial Executives, which on its face seems fair,
but in her mind, no Judge should be constrained; they never err.

She previously told us all she’s no Biologist,
and Legal Scholar can be added to the growing list
of things she can’t do, but we must accept what she opines
until she dies, or gets embarrassed so that she resigns.

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Warren Bonham is a private equity investor who lives in Southlake, Texas.

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13 Responses

  1. Roy Eugene Peterson

    Great poem on Justice Jackson of why she never should have been on the Supeme Court. Clearly presented with arrows to the heart of the matter!

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    • Warren Bonham

      Justice Barrett did the heavy lifting. I was surprised, but heartened that she was so direct in her criticism

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  2. Brian Yapko

    I agree fully with Roy — this is a great poem which accurately skewers Ketanji Brown Jackson — a DEI hire who met Biden’s criteria for race and gender but whose politics are unthinkingly leftist and whose legal acumen is utterly flaccid. That she has a vote on matters of immense consequence is embarrassing and frightening. This is what the left continually tries to inflict on us — identity at the expense of competence. What they can never seem to see is that their much vaunted sense of “enlightened compassion” is simply cover for an insidious normalizing of social engineering. I wish they would grow up.

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    • Warren Bonham

      You hit the nail on the head. Jackson was quoted as saying that “I just feel that I have a wonderful opportunity to tell people in my opinions how I feel about the issues, and that’s what I try to do”. She is guided by her “enlightened compassion”, not by the laws of the land.

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  3. Joseph S. Salemi

    You can call such people DEI hires or Affirmative Action Incompetents, but the fact is that they are everywhere. In some cases they are simply dead weight in whatever position they hold, and everyone else just works around them, but in other cases their incapacities have serious consequences. K.B. Jackson is in the second category, because she now has lifetime tenure to make stupid decisions that could screw us over.

    The larger (and frequently ignored) point is this: Left-liberalism is not a political opinion, a preference, a tendency, or even an ideology. IT IS A FULL-BLOWN RELIGION, with all the baggage and accoutrements that go along with religious faith and commitment. Persons who fail to understand this are completely unprepared to fight left-liberalism.

    One of the many tenets of the left-liberal religious cult is DEI and affirmative action. These things are Categorical Imperatives for its adherents, and whatever untoward or disastrous consequences follow in the wake of DEI are considered necessary, acceptable, and not to be questioned. So you can scream to high heaven about Jackson’s utter unsuitability as a Justice, or her disinterest in precedent and legal details, and it will matter not a whit to left-liberal cultists. Neither will Open Borders, or Defunding the Police, or Transgenderist Absolutism, or Gender Feminism, or a dozen other absurdities that left-liberals have swallowed with pure fideistic passion. Just as more traditional religionists will say that certain bad things must be unquestioningly accepted as “God’s Will,” so also do adherents of the Left-Liberal Religion assert that results that are harmful or distressing in their policies must be accepted as “the right thing to do,” or as “necessary pain,” or as “what Higher Morality demands of us.” That is pure religion.

    Don’t treat left-liberalism as if it were simply a political opinion to oppose, or as a viewpoint that you might be able to change through debate. It is a new religion of a highly fanatical, intolerant, and proselytizing nature, and it will stop at nothing to dominate the world.

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    • Warren Bonham

      I try not to think of the broader context that you’ve outlined because it makes the problem seem almost impossible to solve, but we need to recognize it for what it is in order to deal with it—astute observation as always.

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  4. Susan Jarvis Bryant

    Your admirably crafted poem makes an excellent point, Warren. Any Justice anywhere who refuses to define the glaring difference between a man and a woman because they’re not a fully trained biologist, will at some stage disappoint those seeking honest justice. My crystal balls revealed this in 2022.

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    • Warren Bonham

      Applying her logic means that if only a trained Biologist can tell the difference between a man and a woman, then she isn’t qualified to opine on anything because the list of things that Justice Jackson isn’t an expert on is many times longer than the list of things that she is. Logic doesn’t seem to be her strong suit. Keep using those crystal balls of yours. You were ahead of the curve in 2022.

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  5. Margaret Coats

    Out of necessity, a supreme opinion strikes a new depth. And you noticed, Warren!

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    • Warren Bonham

      I don’t read many Supreme Court opinions, but I’m not aware of any recent examples where a Justice was skewered so effectively. Legal opinions are very dry, but this one was almost entertaining to read.

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  6. Cheryl Corey

    Great poem, topic, and rhyme, Warren. Even worse was when KJB appeared on stage – totally inappropriate for a Supreme and demeaning to the stature of the position.

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    • Warren Bonham

      Thanks for the tip on KJB. I had missed that and completely agree with your view. Such side hustles should probably end when you slip on those robes.

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