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Posted on 04/01/2026 8:56:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
If you thought Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson had already set the bar low for her performance during oral arguments, she managed to make herself look even worse during the Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship case.
The case centers on President Donald Trump’s executive order challenging the modern (mis)interpretation of birthright citizenship. During questioning, Jackson tried to redefine the concept of allegiance to a country by comparing it to being subject to local laws while traveling abroad. "I was thinking, you know, I'm a U.S. citizen, am visiting Japan. And what it means is that, you know, if I steal someone's wallet in Japan, the Japanese authorities can arrest me and prosecute me. Um, it's allegiance, meaning can they control you as a matter of law?"
And she wasn’t finished.
“I can also rely on them if my wallet is stolen to, you know, under Japanese law, go and prosecute the person who has stolen it. So there’s this relationship based on — even though I’m a temporary traveler, I’m just on vacation in Japan, I’m still locally owing allegiance in that sense. Is that the right way to think about it?”
No. It’s not.
It’s so not.
I can’t even begin to understand how someone on the United States Supreme Court could literally make such a profoundly stupid argument.
What Jackson described is basic territorial jurisdiction, not allegiance. Every country on Earth enforces its laws within its borders. That doesn’t mean tourists suddenly pledge loyalty to that country or gain any claim to citizenship. If it did, international travel would come with a whole lot more paperwork and a lot fewer passports.
This distinction isn’t obscure or academic. It’s foundational.
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How Jumanji gradumacate from Harvard and then Harvard Law School?
I heard a comment she made in today’s hearing. I said “WTF?” It was worthy of Camala-totally an incomprehensible non sequitor.
“...How Jumanji gradumacate from Harvard and then Harvard Law School?..”
The same way Fat Fani and Peekaboo James died: DEI
My theory is that Jumanji is the class clown at the Supreme Court. That she asks the dummy questions to get a rise out of the white boys there, especially (lack of) Justice Roberts. Justice Anthony Scalia would have blown a fuse.
Kamala’s writers?
The absurdity of her “leading the witness” argument was so bad, I’m hoping that it scored points for our side. While the opposition needs to create a very wide definition for the terms ‘allegiance’ and ‘jurisdiction’, she jumped the shark with this long illustration.
DEI hire.
When I heard this today, my first thought was...”Jackson must be the dumbest Supreme Court Justice in history.” What she said makes absolutely no sense.
My second thought was that Biden picked her. But then I realized that it wasn’t Biden, it was those who controlled Biden that told him to pick her.
The moving autopen writes...
When I heard it, it made me wonder why she used this analogy. Did she steal someone’s wallet while she was abroad? Someone she knows do that? Why not just say if someone committed a crime in another country?
I used to think Sotomayor was the dumbest, and she sure is dumb. A DEI 105 tops IQ fools. The latest one has proven, there is no low to of IQ to scotus democrap appointees. partisan dei hires.
She’s a moron. Literally.
Ya can’t fix stupid. And she’s at the top of the list of stupids.
Gonna need a biologist to figure out all this.
Keep her talking!
;)
-PJ
Idiot
It’s the dumbest on record so far but it’s a lifetime appointment so I expect this to be high on her list of “some of her best” arguments compared to what’s to come.
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