Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson invoked a classic Christmas movie and racism during oral arguments in a First Amendment case out of Colorado at the Supreme Court Monday.
The case, 303 Creative v. Elenis, centers around Lorie Smith, a Colorado web designer who sued Colorado over anti-discrimination laws, claiming that the law compelled her to express support for same-sex marriage. A divided panel on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled against Smith in 2021.
“I want to do video depictions of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ and knowing that movie very well, I want to be authentic, and so only white children and families can be customers for that particular product. Everybody else… I will sell them anything they want, just not the ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ depictions,” Brown Jackson said to attorney Kristen Waggoner, CEO, President, and General Counsel of the Alliance Defending Freedom. “I‘m expressing something, right? … I can say anti-discrimination laws can’t make me sell ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ packages to non-white individuals.”
Jackson is the perfect example of a diversity hire. She is not there due to her accomplishments she is there due to her gender and skin tone.
Removing all doubt that she was an Affirmative Action appointee – without qualifications.
Great Job Brandon!
Whaaaaat???
With THAT logic, she is sitting on the Supreme Court?? Unbelievable.
If a citizen wants to BUY a product, what does that have to do with what race they are???
Further, in a FREE COUNTRY, if I wish to buy something from someone and they openly don’t like me, I just go somewhere else and buy it and they lose my business. That is called “capitalism” and if the business owner did it often enough, he would no longer be in business. No one needs to help them whine about it because their feelings are hurt, poor things.
What I DON”T get to do is throw a baby tantrum and DEMAND they interact with me.
I’m supposed to respect THEIR ideas and life philosophies, but they get to OUTLAW MINE??
Is she really that stupid??? Or just putting on a stupid-show? Or did she think that was a truly BRILLIANT question and the whole world would marvel at her deep thinking wisdom? Hint: it was not, and no one did.
The other Justices must have been shaking their heads that one of their colleagues actually said that.
She’d be wise to heed the general admonition to observe silence to avoid confirming doubt about your intelligence by opening your piehole. Foot-in-mouth has become an early feature of her ramblings from the bench. And she’s still not a biologist.