Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson continues to cement her legacy as America’s worst Supreme Court pick through her scathing dissent from her colleagues’ latest immigration ruling.
In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court permitted President Donald Trump to restart deportations of over 500,000 Latin American migrants, closing the Biden-era “humanitarian parole” loophole which saw them enter the country. You can probably guess the dissenters: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
“The Court has plainly botched this assessment today,” Jackson wrote. “It requires next to nothing from the Government with respect to irreparable harm. And it undervalues the devastating consequences of allowing the Government to precipitously upend the lives and livelihoods of nearly half a million noncitizens while their legal claims are pending.”
As a rule of thumb, if Jackson’s unhappy, Americans have cause to celebrate. Her rulings always seem to consider the well-being of innocent American citizens last. Jackson’s heart bleeds for more than migrants. Her light sentences of sex criminals accused of violating young children are appalling, according to records reviewed by the New York Post (NYP). (RELATED: Supreme Court Justice Proves She’s Totally Clueless Yet Again)
“I would have denied the Government’s application,” Jackson argued in the dissent, citing a “balance of the equities” which “weighs heavily in the respondents’ favor.” Under Biden, individuals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela (CHNV) with sponsors were permitted into the United States to live and work for two years, according to CBS News.
.@StephenM on SCOTUS allowing so-called “parole” to be revoked for 500K illegals: “Of course they have to be deported. You can’t have a situation where the Biden Admin can fly in half a million illegal aliens in the last 24 months and we’re having a conversation about, ‘Oh, maybe… pic.twitter.com/cmMaGDsykb
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 30, 2025
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin claimed former President Joe Biden’s administration transformed the program into an “unrecognizable shell of itself used for fraud and to exploit the immigration system,” according to the NYP. Jackson doesn’t see it that way.
“Respondents now face two unbearable options,” the justice wrote. “On the one hand, they could elect to leave the United States and, thereby, confront ‘dangers in their native countries,’ experience destructive ‘family separation,’ and possibly ‘forfei[t] any opportunity to obtain a remedy based on their . . . claims,’ as the District Court found.” Wait a minute. Weren’t the migrants supposed to clear out within two years anyway?
“On the other, they could remain in the United States after parole termination and risk imminent removal at the hands of Government agents, along with its serious attendant consequences,” Jackson continued. It seems that the migrants aren’t facing a choice, so much as a mandate to conform to the law, as interpreted by the judiciary. For the good of America, one hopes the court’s decisions continue to provoke such seething dissents from Jackson.
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This article was originally published at dailycaller.com
