For years, the general consensus on the right has been that Sonia Sotomayor is the most vapid Justice on the Supreme Court, and certainly, there’s been plenty of evidence to that effect. Who could forget that time she compared mutilating children under the guise of “gender-affirming care” to taking an aspirin?
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But Ketanji Brown Jackson exists, and that means Sotomayor was never long for her throne. Appointed by former President Joe Biden, Jackson infamously claimed she couldn’t define what a woman is because she’s “not a biologist” during her confirmation hearing, and it’s been all downhill from there. More recently, she completely misrepresented the basic facts in a case involving whether parents can opt out of LGBT lessons in school.
Her masterpiece came at the end of June, though. In a dissent involving whether district court judges could issue sweeping nationwide injunctions, Jackson used the phrase “wait for it” like a summer intern before arguing that assessing the law was a “mind-numbing technical query,” as if that’s not the Supreme Court’s purpose. In an unprecedented move, Justice Amy Coney Barrett unleashed on her in response.
“Justice Jackson … chooses a startling line of attack that is tethered neither to these sources nor, frankly, to any doctrine whatsoever.”
Barrett is tired of pretending KBJ knows what she’s talking about. pic.twitter.com/L1iXGdTA6X
— Major Scobie (@GrahamGreeneEsq) June 27, 2025
That seemed about as bad as it could get, but Jackson is nothing if not persistent in her imbecility. Which brings me to what happened on Tuesday. In a move that I would have never predicted in a million years, aforementioned far-left Justice Sonia Sotomayor took Jackson to task for writing a dissent addressing a question that wasn’t even before the court.
In which Sotomayor sides with the conservatives and reminds Jackson that what Jackson is talking about isn’t before the Court at the moment pic.twitter.com/DUzRLUECPE
— Sunny (@sunnyright) July 8, 2025
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, concurring in the grant of stay. I agree with JUSTICE JACKSON that the President can–not restructure federal agencies in a manner inconsistentwith congressional mandates. See post, at 13. Here, how–ever, the relevant Executive Order directs agencies to planreorganizations and reductions in force “consistent with ap–plicable law,” App. to Application for Stay 2a, and the re–sulting joint memorandum from the Office of Managementand Budget and Office of Personnel Management reiteratesas much. The plans themselves are not before this Court,at this stage, and we thus have no occasion to considerwhether they can and will be carried out consistent with theconstraints of law. I join the Court’s stay because it leavesthe District Court free to consider those questions in thefirst instance.
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There are only two viable explanations here. The first is that Jackson is truly this much of a legal lightweight and doesn’t have the capacity to understand basic parts of her job as a Supreme Court justice, including being able to understand what issue the court is ruling on. That’s certainly possible given her history of jurisprudence and the fact that she was placed in her position because Biden pledged only to nominate a black woman for the job.
The other option is that Jackson is so insanely partisan that she’d see the judiciary burned to the ground to prop up her left-wing ideology. Neither is good, considering she has a lifetime appointment.
Regardless, it’s clear that Jackson has alienated her colleagues in a way no other Supreme Court justice has in recent memory. Her arrogance and inability (or unwillingness) to grasp the basic facts of whatever case is before her has even gone too far for the other left-wing justices. That’s saying something.
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