#ketanji-brown-jackson

#ketanji-brown-jackson

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson attended the Grammy Awards over the weekend because her memoir, "Lovely One," was nominated for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording. She lost to the Dalai Lama. Which, honestly... fair. Anyway, that should be the end of it, but it's 2026 and Republicans need to find something to talk about instead of unleashing untrained, armed thugs on Minnesota to kidnap journalists and murder civilians, so Justice Jackson's award nomination is the new ethics scandal.

In Washington, D.C., the U.S. Supreme Court includes, for the first time, a Black woman. In Multnomah County's Midland Library last week, visitors viewed a pair of shackles, a whip, and a Ku Klux Klan hood. The jarring juxtaposition kicked off Multnomah County Library's annual communitywide Everybody Reads program, which this year takes up Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's memoir, .

With what stillness at lastso this is the sound of youhere and now whether or notanyone hears it this is where we have come with our ageour knowledge such as it isand our hopes such as they areinvisible before us untouched and still possible you appear in the valleyyour first sunlight reaching down to touch the tips of a fewhigh leaves that do not stir as though they had not noticedand

Jackson expressed concern that attacks on judges are not random but intended to intimidate them, risking the integrity of democracy and the Constitution.