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Justice
Ketanji
Brown
Jackson
attended
the
Grammy
Awards
over
the
weekend
because
her
memoir,
“Lovely
One,”
was
nominated
for
Best
Audio
Book,
Narration
&
Storytelling
Recording.
She
lost
to
the
Dalai
Lama.
Which,
honestly…
fair.
Anyway,
that
should
be
the
end
of
it,
but
it’s
2026
and
Republicans
need
to
find
something
to
talk
about
instead
of
unleashing
untrained,
armed
thugs
on
Minnesota
to
kidnap
journalists
and
murder
civilians,
so
Justice
Jackson’s
award
nomination
is
the
new
ethics
scandal.
There’s
nothing
improper
about
attending
an
awards
ceremony
for
an
award
that
you’re
actually
nominated
for.
But
Senator
Marsha
Blackburn
wants
an
investigation
into
whether
Jackson’s
attendance
breached
Supreme
Court
ethics
because
so
many
artists
and
presenters
bashed
ICE
at
the
event.
Blackburn’s
letter
claims
that
Jackson’s
mere
presence
at
an
event
where
other
people
exercised
their
First
Amendment
rights
somehow
compromises
her
impartiality
on
immigration
cases:
“While
it
is
by
no
means
unheard
of
or
unusual
for
a
Supreme
Court
justice
to
attend
a
public
function,
very
rarely—if
ever—have
justices
of
our
nation’s
highest
Court
been
present
at
an
event
at
which
attendees
have
amplified
such
far-left
rhetoric,”
Blackburn
(R-Tenn.)
wrote
in
a
Thursday
letter
to
[Chief
Justice
John]
Roberts.
Presumably
the
“far-left
rhetoric”
is
“Abolish
ICE.”
And
if
that’s
the
case,
the
bad
news
for
Blackburn
is
that
this
is,
according
to
polling,
the
mainstream
American
position
now.
The
ethical
constraints
on
the
Supreme
Court
are
notoriously
non-existent.
Blackburn
cites
the
toothless
advice
that
the
justices
“act
at
all
times
in
a
manner
that
promotes
public
confidence
in
the
integrity
and
impartiality
of
the
judiciary.”
The
senator
specifically
worries
that
Jackson’s
appearance
in
the
same
room
where
such
radical
thoughts
as
“maybe
don’t
imprison
children
without
due
process”
might
be
expressed.
Blackburn
recounted
how
Sens.
Dick
Durbin
(D-Ill.)
and
Sheldon
Whitehouse
(D-RI)
penned
a
letter
to
Roberts
urging
him
to
ensure
that
conservative
Justice
Samuel
Alito
would
recuse
himself
in
the
2020
election
and
Capitol
riot
cases
because
his
wife
put
up
a
Revolutionary
War-era
flag
at
his
house.
Right.
But
see
how
that’s,
like,
not
at
all
the
same
thing?
The
proper
analogy
would
be
if
Justice
Jackson
herself
wore
an
ICE
Out
pin
at
the
event.
And
if
she
did
so,
then
that
would
be
a
good
argument
for
recusal.
But
she
did
not.
Which
makes
it
very
different
than
Sam
Alito
flying
insurrection
symbols
outside
his
house
in
January
2021.
Third
Circuit
Judge
Emil
Bove,
one
of
the
architects
of
the
DOJ’s
contemptuous
approach
to
deportations
having
reportedly
counseling
government
lawyers
to
say
“fuck
you”
to
courts
blocking
illegal
flights,
attended
a
Trump
rally
in
Pennsylvania.
As
opposed
to
an
awards
show
where
Billie
Eilish
earned
30
seconds
to
express
her
support
for
immigrants,
Bove
attended
a
political
rally
where
the
president
declared
immigrants
as
coming
from
“shithole
countries,”
and
mused
about
running
for
a
third
term.
As
a
symbolic
expression
of
support,
this
is
not
in
the
same
ballpark.
Conservatives
at
the
Supreme
Court
fare
even
worse
on
the
ethical
ledger.
Clarence
Thomas
accepted hundreds
of
thousands
of
dollars
in
undisclosed
luxury
travel
and
gifts from
a
billionaire
whose
interests
regularly
align
with
cases
before
the
Court?
Sam
Alito taking
a
private
jet
trip
to
a
luxury
fishing
resort courtesy
of
a
Republican
megadonor
who
actually
did
have
business
before
the
Court?
Alito
got
himself
knighted
by
an
organization
headed
up
by
arch-conservative
Europeans.
It’s
not
even
clear
Blackburn
is
dumb
enough
to
buy
her
own
performative
tantrum:
“Congressional
Democrats
and
the
legacy
media
have
spent
years
smearing
Republican-appointed
Supreme
Court
justices
as
corrupt,
partisan,
and
having
engaged
in
conduct
that
violates
the
Court’s
Code
of
Conduct,”
Blackburn
bemoaned.“These
public
smear
campaigns
orchestrated
by
congressional
Democrats
and
amplified
by
the
mainstream
media
were
baseless
and
a
pathetic
attempt
to
influence
the
decision-making
process
of
the
Court.”
And
that’s
the
whole
strategy.
Deflect
from
the
documented
corruption
piling
up
around
conservatives
by
claiming
the
real
bias
is
passively
sitting
in
the
audience
while
the
woke
mob
awards
Spanish-language
music.
If
the
standard
is
merely
attending
an
event
where
other
speakers
engage
in
radical
rhetoric,
can
we
get
some
ethical
complaints
over
being
within
a
thousand
yards
of
a
Federalist
Society
conference?
Because
I
don’t
know
if
the
GOP
wants
to
pull
that
string.
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