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CRT on KBJ's coffee table

New reporting from The Daily Wire raises extremely concerning questions about the role Critical Race Theory plays in Ketanji Brown Jackson’s legal philosophy.

Indeed, Jackson has a history of promoting and defending Critical Race Theory “principles” and authors:

 

  • In a 2020 lecture, Jackson highlighted Derrick Bell, “the godfather of Critical Race Theory.” Jackson said her family had Bell’s book “on their coffee table for many years.”

 

  • In the same lecture, Jackson said that she drew “heavily” from the “excellent insights” of Dr. Janet Dewart Bell.
    • In 2021, Janet Bell presented a slide show vigorously defending Critical Race Theory, evoked the concept of “the property right in whiteness,” and compared the United States to the Holocaust and Nazi Germany.
  • Again in the same lecture, Jackson praised the 1619 Project, which argues that the U.S. is a fundamentally racist country.
  • Jackson specifically cited the section of the project that takes issue with Americans being “raised to think about 1776 as the beginning of our democracy.”

 

  • In 2015, Jackson gave two lectures about “fairness in sentencing” in which she said she tries to “convince” her students that sentencing “melds together myriad types of law,” including “Critical Race Theory.”

Would Jackson draw on Critical Race Theory if confirmed to the Supreme Court? Is it part of her legal philosophy? Does she disavow Critical Race Theory? These are the types of questions Joe Biden himself insisted were important to ask because Supreme Court justices aren’t “bound by stare decisis” and can “make new law.”

Liberals have already tried to force CRT into classrooms, is the Supreme Court next?

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