Media Have No Qualms About KBJ Attending Anti-ICE Grammys

America’s propaganda media have always applied two very different standards when judging the “ethics and conduct” of U.S. Supreme Court justices. While expending countless resources inventing nothingburger “scandals” of wrongdoing about the court’s originalists, these so-called “defenders of democracy” regularly go out of their way to glamorize the body’s leftist members — no matter how untoward or inappropriate their behavior may seem.

That’s the dynamic that was at play on Sunday evening, when Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson attended this year’s anti-ICE Grammy Awards. The Biden appointee made an appearance at the event following the nomination for “best audio book, narration and storytelling recording” for her 2024 memoir, according to USA Today.

While Jackson hobnobbed with Hollywood’s biggest snobs and received a favorable shoutout from host Trevor Noah, many of the night’s (overrated) winners used their acceptance speeches to give us their unwanted thoughts on something they know little to nothing about — immigration enforcement. From expletive-laden comments (“f-ck ICE”) to embarrassing “land acknowledgements,” the leftist-led attacks on lawful efforts to deport illegal aliens (including rapists and other violent criminals) were everything one would expect.

And yet, despite this overwhelming display of uber left-wing partisanship, as of Monday morning, there are no legacy media outlets or major Democrats expressing outrage about Jackson’s Grammy attendance. The same righteous “truth tellers” who were supposedly so concerned about non-scandals like Justice Sam Alito’s wife flying an Appeal to Heaven flag or Justice Clarence Thomas having a rich friend now have nothing to say when Jackson attends an overtly partisan event whose attendees expressed extreme hostility to federal law enforcement.

There are no leftist calls to impeach Jackson. Nor are there any demands for her to recuse herself from immigration-related cases involving the Trump administration — several of which are before the court this term.

The left’s outrage machine is dead silent.

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It’s not hard to imagine the media-led freakout that would ensue if one of the court’s conservative justices were to attend an awards show in which many of the winners got up and bashed Democrat politicians and their policies. (Just look at how they reacted to Judge Emil Bove attending a Trump rally.) The calls for impeachment would be so loud that it might just drown out the pathetic excuse for what qualifies as “music” at the Grammys these days.

But like any leftist caught violating this faux code of conduct, Jackson will get a pass. Without question, she’ll keep receiving lavish praise and award nominations from Hollywood snobs and more opportunities to appear on Broadway — all because she’s considered to be “one of the good guys.”

Her conservative colleagues, on the other hand, won’t be so lucky. They’ll continue to be on the receiving end of deceptive media info ops, threats from high-ranking Democrat officials, assassination attempts, demonstrations outside their homes, and any other consequence that comes with making judicial decisions based on what the Constitution calls for.

None of the justices deserves any of those things. But the left has decided that such actions are now acceptable to use against the conservative justices because they no longer control the Supreme Court. And as with any institution, what leftists can’t control, they will seek to destroy.

Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He is a co-recipient of the 2025 Dao Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism. His work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics and RealClearHealth. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood