From Soros Prosecutors to a Soros Justice

Scores of cities and counties have seen the effect of soft-on-crime policies. Will we soon see them in the Supreme Court opinions? Looks that way.

When 83-year old Supreme Court Justice Steven Breyer announced his retirement in February, it neither surprised nor initially concerned me. Hard-charging leftists demanded Breyer’s resignation ever since their legal and cinematic icon, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, passed away in 2020, leaving President Trump an opportunity to nominate and the Senate to confirm Amy Coney Barrett in quick order, just before the 2020 election.

With Biden’s subsequent election, these same leftists immediately pressured Breyer, the Court’s oldest justice and leading liberal, to resign to allow Biden the opportunity to nominate a younger leftist. Breyer resisted initially, undoubtedly desiring to hang around through several potentially landmark decisions this year. One such case includes the Dobbs vs. Jackson Women Health Organization case challenging Mississippi’s ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Some believe two major prior Supreme Court decisions, Roe vs. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania vs. Casey, could be overturned, over Breyer’s objections. We will see, probably in late June. As I’ve opined previously, judicial affirmation of the Mississippi abortion law may not have as much impact on abortions in the US as many believe. Nor is it likely to serve as a major election issue in November, despite liberal wailing to the contrary.

The leftists got their wish. Breyer announced his impending departure in February, and Biden wasted no time in nominating, as promised, a black woman and former Breyer law clerk and one-time public defender, Ketanji Brown Jackson, to replace him.

A few of us were not especially exercised, other than the sacrificing of a sound legal philosophy, academic credentials, judicial experience, and qualifications at the alter of a racial and gender quota. During a Democratic presidential primary debate in South Carolina almost exactly two years earlier, Biden promised that he would nominate the first black woman to serve on the court. After all, she wouldn’t change the court's philosophical balance, which includes two other reliable leftists and a majority of 5 conservatives, with one wild card (Chief Justice John Roberts).

But that was before a few Senators began to divulge her judicial and public record.

Brown Jackson served eight years as a US District Judge for the District of Columbia, nominated by President Obama, and less than a year on the powerful US Court of Appeals. Nominated by Joe Biden, she succeeded now-Attorney General and former Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland and enjoyed a solid bipartisan confirmation vote in the US Senate. No one doubts her qualifications, and she enjoys strong support from former GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and former DC Court of Appeals judge and Senate legal counsel Tom Griffith.

To their credit, Senate Republicans made no effort to launch punishing inquisitions into Brown Jackson’s personal life as Democrats had done during Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation process, one of the most shameful episodes in Senate history, exceeding even the smearing of the late Robert Bork and Justice Clarence Thomas (more about him in a moment).

While professing a fondness for Brown Jackson personally and noting her historic nomination, Senate Republicans focused, appropriately, on Brown Jackson’s judicial record and philosophy. Here’s a sample of what they found:

From the New York Post: “In the eight child-porn cases that came before her court, former D.C. District Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson heard horrifying details of ‘sadomasochistic’ torture of young kids — including ‘infants and toddlers’ — yet challenged the disturbing evidence presented by prosecutors and disregarded their prison recommendations to give the lightest possible punishments in each case…”

From RealClearInvestigation’s Paul Sperry: “Partly as a result of the historic prison release engineered by President Biden’s high court nominee, cops and communities are dealing with a surge of repeat crime. So far, more than 1 in 3 — 35% — of the crack inmates released early have reoffended, according to a U.S. Sentencing Commission study conducted in 2020.

“Those rearrested after incarceration didn’t just get prosecuted for drug offenses. A large share also committed violent crimes, including child abuse, rape, aggravated assault, kidnapping, weapons offenses, robbery, and even murder.

“But the most violent ex-cons who reoffended soon after enjoying retroactive early release from lockup were the crack-cocaine dealers — the very group Jackson claimed had been most abused by ‘disparities’ in drug sentencing and most deserving of release. They proved far more dangerous than inmates released early for dealing heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, or marijuana. Fully 25% of ex-crack convicts have committed new violent crimes upon release, the federal study revealed.”

Senate Democrats and media enablers came to her defense. But facts are stubborn things, including Brown Jackson’s incredibly lenient 90-day sentence of an especially egregious child pornographer. I’ll spare you the details here. Keep in mind that many of the children “featured” in these often violent pornographic photos are victims of child trafficking. More about that topic in a subsequent post. It’s important.

Of course, one cannot blame Brown Jackson alone for an explosion of crime across the United States. We have several “progressive” prosecutors in places like Philadelphia, San Francisco, St. Louis, Los Angeles, and even in northern Virginia to thank for much of that, all of whom are the beneficiaries of large campaign contributions from billionaire currency trader and Open Society Foundation creator George Soros.

But that isn’t all. Even on a federal meat “country of origin” labeling law passed by Congress, she substituted her judgment for Congress by suggesting, as the Wall Street Journal opined about her ruling (joined in, sadly, by then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh), “if Congress doesn’t explicitly forbid regulators from doing something, they can do it.” Talk about a leftist wet dream - unfettered regulators. That smacks of judicial activism.

Notably, perhaps the most memorable aspects of Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing was her refusal to answer questions, including her professed affection for critical race theory, the widely discredited 1619 Project, and especially failing to define what a “woman” is (“I’m not a biologist”), by US Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN). She also refused to opine on whether or not she supports “packing the Supreme Court” by enlarging it from its current 9-member composition to 13 or more seats. Ginsberg and Brown-Jackson’s former boss Breyer had no reservation in expressing opposition to court-packing. As for defining what a woman is, well. . .

Meanwhile, the same leftists salivating over Brown Jackson’s nomination are working overtime to discredit and marginalize - another high tech lynching - Justice Clarence Thomas. It’s due to a few emails sent by his wife, Virginia (Ginni), a well-known conservative activist, to the Trump White House around January 6th, 2020. Demands that Thomas either recuse himself from election-related lawsuits, resign, be impeached, or die (Thomas was recently hospitalized for an infection). A CNN reporter even claimed to have found a “smoking gun” in the form of a video where Thomas said that he loved his wife. L'horreur! Should men be responsible for the actions of their spouses and exercise more control over their wives? Good luck with that.

Perhaps more alarming to this Senate veteran was the obvious withholding from Republicans of information and materials that were shared with Democrats. That is unheard of, a major breach of protocol, and scandalous.

None of this should surprise us, but we should be alarmed that Soros prosecutors' soft-on-crime legal philosophy and policies are about to make their way onto the highest court of the land, while the diversionary and foolhardy assault on Justice Thomas no doubt will continue. With the support of at least one Senate Republican, coupled with lockstep Democratic support, her confirmation is not in doubt. Neither is The Left’s continued politicization of and assaults on the Supreme Court, if not the entire judicial system.

Add this to your scorecard for congressional elections this November. Pray for Justice Thomas’ health. And our country.