Jackson Thinks Trump, Not Leftists, Is A ‘Threat To Democracy’

After years of harassment, violent threats, and an assassination attempt being leveled at her conservative colleagues by radical leftists, Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has finally cracked the code on who she believes poses the biggest danger to the judicial branch: President Donald Trump.

While speaking at a judicial conference in Puerto Rico on Thursday, Jackson reportedly discussed Americans’ growing criticisms of activist lower court judges unilaterally usurping the constitutional powers of the president to execute existing laws — an issue she characterized as “the elephant in the room.” Without mentioning Trump by name, the Biden appointee claimed that these “attacks are not random,” and “seem designed to intimidate those of us who serve in this critical capacity.”

“The threats and harassment are attacks on our democracy, on our system of government. And they ultimately risk undermining our Constitution and the rule of law,” Jackson said.

Since returning to office, Trump has faced more than 170 lawsuits from Democrats and left-wing activists, who have sought favorable rulings from activist lower court judges to prevent the president from implementing his agenda. Judicial supremacists on the bench have been more willing to grant leftists’ requests, issuing overreaching nationwide injunctions blocking Trump from fulfilling his constitutional mandate and effectively rendering the 2024 presidential election results moot.

A majority of SCOTUS justices (including Jackson) have so far been unwilling to end this judicial coup and (at times) have even participated in it.

Seemingly taking a page out of Chief Justice John Roberts’ playbook on issuing politically charged statements, Jackson appeared to embolden these out-of-control judges to continue their judicial coup. She encouraged them to demonstrate “raw courage” when faced with criticisms of their unprofessional conduct and expressed her belief that “history will vindicate [their] service.” And if that wasn’t outrageous enough, she further went as far as to compare Americans’ current criticisms to “attacks on judges who issued controversial decisions during the Civil Rights Movement and the Watergate scandal,” as described by Politico.

“I do know that loneliness. It is very stressful to have to decide difficult cases in the spotlight and under pressure,” Jackson said. “It can sometimes take raw courage to remain steadfast in doing what the law requires.”

While Jackson’s pearl-clutching is sure to elicit cheers from her legacy media fanboys and wine moms, the wannabe Broadway star’s overdramatic performance could not have been more tone deaf. If the junior justice believes mere criticisms of the judiciary’s tyrannical conduct amount to “attacks on our democracy,” then what does she make of the actual threats of violence against her Republican-appointed colleagues?

For the past several years, Democrats and their left-wing foot soldiers have been engaged in a campaign of harassment and intimidation against the high court’s conservative-leaning justices.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer famously took to the steps of the Supreme Court in spring 2020 to threaten Associate Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, telling the two judges they would “pay the price” and “won’t know what hit [them]” if they didn’t rule the way he wanted them to on an upcoming abortion-related case. As The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway previously noted, the incendiary moment came years after left-wing “mobs took over Capitol rooms and buildings and pounded on the doors to the Supreme Court shouting, ‘Burn it to the ground!’” during Kavanaugh’s contentious 2018 confirmation hearings.

But these incidents wouldn’t be the last in which leftists deployed their fear and intimidation campaign against the high court’s GOP appointees.

After the 2022 majority draft Dobbs opinion overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked, a flurry of left-wing anarchists descended on the doorsteps of these justices’ homes. One Democrat-aligned group even went as far as to encourage its supporters to target Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s church and children.

Despite these apparent violations of federal law to influence the Dobbs case’s eventual outcome, the Biden Justice Department sat on its hands and declined to charge potential lawbreakers. Then-Attorney General Merrick Garland’s neglect to enforce the law culminated in an alleged (and fortunately, failed) assassination attempt against Kavanaugh.

Such threatening acts don’t even take into account the years-long smear campaign orchestrated by media hacktivists against SCOTUS’s Republican appointees. Through dishonest hit pieces, so-called “journalists” have tried to manufacture a cloud of wrongdoing (primarily) around the high court’s originalists, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. The ultimate goal, as it seems, is to undercut public trust in the Supreme Court and delegitimize any constitutional rulings made by its conservative-leaning majority.

And yet, for all her supposed concern about “attacks” on judges, Ketanji Brown Jackson seemingly finds Trump and Constitution-loving Americans critical of the country’s ongoing judicial coup as the real threat to the judiciary.

Contrary to the web of deception spun by the junior justice and manipulative media actors, it’s the responsibility of the president — not the judiciary — to execute the nation’s laws. Unilateral attempts by rogue judges to undermine the executive’s lawful power to do so is at odds with the views of the framers and the safeguards they erected in the country’s founding document.

If Jackson spent half as much time reading the Constitution as she does “read[ing] the news or turn[ing] on the television,” she might learn a thing or two about separation of powers and why citizens have every right to worry about the judiciary’s abuse of its role in America’s constitutional framework. But given her penchant for left-wing activism on the bench, Americans shouldn’t hold their collective breath.

Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood