The New York Post quotes some of Justice Amy Coney Barrett's rejoinder to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissent in a decision just announced. That decision curtails the power of district judges to issue nationwide injunctions against this or that executive action. Barrett, who wrote the majority decision, included the following aimed at Jackson.
We will not dwell on Justice Jackson’s argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries’ worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself. We observe only this: Justice Jackson decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary.
Attorney Kostas Moros wrote on X in response to Barrett’s “imperial Judiciary” quote. “Translated: ‘you are so stupid that you aren’t even worth responding to.'”
Barrett's critique appeared in the majority decision signed by five sitting Justices plus Chief Justice Roberts. Your kindly aunt would sorrowfully conclude that Jackson "appears to be having difficulty adjusting to the culture of the Court."
