✪ Justice Ketanji Jackson’s ‘Turning Japanese’ Argument Is Really Stupid

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ey there, stupid kids. Be of good cheer! You’re never going to win a Nobel Prize in physics or solve any puzzles on The Wheel of Fortune but you can still grow up to become a United States Supreme Court Justice! Just like Ketanji Brown Jackson did. 

During Tuesday’s Supreme Court oral arguments on the widely-watched birthright citizenship case, Jackson once again demonstrated yet again how a basic understanding of the law is no longer a prerequisite to serve on the nation’s highest court. No three words uttered together stir more terror in the hearts of men as KJB declaring, “I was thinking …” 

On Tuesday, Brown was thinking about her pickpocket “allegiance” to Japan. 

✪ Stupid Enough

The case before SCOTUS is of course Trump v. Barbara, testing the President’s executive order meant to end birthright citizenship; the insane interpretation of the Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment that virtually anyone born in the United States is magically a U.S. citizen. President Donald Trump, who showed up to watch the court weigh in on his stalled executive order, later posted on his Truth Social platform that the United States is “the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow ‘Birthright’ Citizenship!”

Not quite. According to Pew Research, 32 other countries provide automatic birthright citizenship similar to the United States. However, I’m not certain how many people are crossing the border into Venezuela or Chad — or Canada for the love of God — for the purpose of obtaining unrestricted birthright citizenship. 

However, President Trump’s point is well taken. The U.S. is still as stupid as Canada and all the other Third World countries on the list as long as we allow this abuse to continue. And we’ve been stupid about anchor babies since the late 19th Century when the Supreme Court went all-in on the insanity that is birthright citizenship. 

Speaking of stupid; Jackson struggled all morning with the intent of the Fourteenth Amendment. Ratified in 1868, the civil rights amendment was written to grant citizenship to freed slaves and their children, not the children of millions of illegal immigrants looking for a free pass to stay. Or “birth tourists.” U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer noted that for decades after the amendment took effect, it was widely  understood that children born to temporary workers in the United States were not citizens. 

✪ Insanely Idiotic 

In what will henceforth be forever known as the “Turning Japanese, I really think so” precedent, Jackson mused if she stole a wallet while in Japan, she would be bound by her “allegiance” to that country’s criminal laws and the consequences therein. The bizarre train of logic began again with those three dangerous words:

“I was thinking, I, a U.S. citizen am visiting Japan. And what it means is that if I steal someone’s wallet in Japan, the Japanese authorities can arrest me and prosecute me. It’s allegiance meaning can they control you as a matter of law. I can also rely on them, if my wallet is stolen, to, you know, under Japanese law, go and prosecute the person who has stolen it. So there’s this relationship, even though I’m just a temporary traveler, I’m just on vacation in Japan, I’m still locally owing allegiance in that sense.”

In a very real sense that makes no sense whatsoever. Visitors are bound by the laws of the countries in which they travel. Kind of like millions of “undocumented” illegal migrants are bound; or should be bound, by U.S. immigration law. They don’t owe any allegiance to the country which enforces said laws. And therein lies the biggest problem with birthright citizenship. 

Even Jackson’s far-left fellow justices on the court wanted to drop the Billy Madison line on her.

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✪ Stupid Is As Stupid Does

The woman who said once she wasn’t qualified to define what a woman is because she is “not a biologist” has damaged the esteemed high court’s reputation with a growing list of head-scratching bench questions and legal arguments. 

The day before she unleashed her “Turning Japanese” defense, Jackson stood as the lone dissenting vote in a First Amendment case. In the 8-1 ruling, the court found a Colorado law violated the speech rights of counselors by banning them from practicing talk therapy to help patients overcome gender dysphoria. 

Jackson said the mental health professionals have no free speech rights if said speech runs counter to a state’s gender identity agenda. She has expressed grave concerns about the First Amendment “hamstringing” the Government. Jackson has a tendency to abandon her states’ rights stance whenever progressive national policy is on the line. 

As reporter Elle Purnell wrote:

“The gist of Jackson’s dissent is that [counselor] Kaley Chiles needs to shut up and trust the science. Transgender orthodoxy is just ‘facts and data,’ dontcha know. Just like the ‘facts and data’ that were used to bludgeon society with Covid vaccine mandates, mask orders, and stay-at-home edicts, transgender ‘science’ may not be questioned.” 

The DEI justice has twisted “facts” in her bench activism for discriminatory affirmative action policies. 

She’s also hobnobbed with the glitterati at the ICE-bashing Grammys. Of course the useful idiots of corporate media had nothing to say about Jackson’s award show attendance, while it has gone apoplectic over Trump’s precedent-setting attendance at Supreme Court oral arguments. 

Jackson has a lot to say, but much of it is not constrained by law or logic. As The Hill’s Gavel blog reported, Jackson has far outpaced her fellow justices in the sheer volume of words spoken during oral arguments. 

Federalist’s Senior Legal Correspondent Margot Cleveland stated in an X post Tuesday, the solicitor general failed to employ his most effective argument against birthright citizenship: Jackson’s defense of it.

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As Forrest Gump also told us more than once, stupid is as stupid does. ✪