Justice Jackson Correctly Defines The John Roberts Supreme Court As The Calvinball Court

Jackson Writes Opinions For The Media, Not Everyday Americans

What's become vividly clear is that Justice Jackson isn't writing SCOTUS opinions to persuade her colleagues or the American public.

Why Ketanji Brown Jackson accused the Supreme Court of playing ‘Calvinball’ for Trump

“Calvin and Hobbes” had a fictional game called “Calvinball,” the rules of which are made up and constantly changing. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson just accused her colleagues of “Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist.”

Justice Jackson Correctly Defines The John Roberts Supreme Court As The Calvinball Court

In theory, the nice thing about having a Supreme Court is that it provides some level of legal certainty. You know how the system works: lower courts make decisions based on law and precedent, parties can appeal, and eventually the highest court issues careful, reasoned opinions that other courts can follow. It's not a perfect…

Jackson's scathing dissent levels partisan charge at colleagues after high-profile ruling

Justice Jackson ripped the high court for “Calvinball jurisprudence" in a fractured NIH grants ruling, accusing colleagues of favoring Trump at the expense of science.

Why Ketanji Brown Jackson accused the Supreme Court of playing ‘Calvinball’ for Trump - Finnoexpert

The newspaper comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes” had a fictional game called “Calvinball,” the rules of which are made up and constantly changing. The only fixed rule is that you can’t play it the same way twice. The game appeared in a Supreme Court opinion Thursday, when Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson accused her colleagues of “Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist.” In a solo opinion on the Trump administration’s quest to cut National Institutes o…