Justice Jackson’s ‘Turning Japanese’ Argument Is So Dumb It Stuns
By: M.D. Kittle
April 02, 2026
On Tuesday, Ketanji Brown Jackson once again showed us that you don’t have to understand the law to be a Supreme Court justice.
Hey, stupid kids. Be of good cheer! You’re not going to win a Nobel Prize in physics or solve any puzzles on The Wheel of Fortune, but you can still grow up to be a United States Supreme Court Justice. Just like Ketanji Brown Jackson did.
During Tuesday’s oral arguments on a widely-watched birthright citizenship case, Jackson once again showed that 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 was Trump v. Barbara, testing the president’s executive order meant to end birthright citizenship — the insane reading 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 U.S. I’m not sure how many people are crossing the border into Venezuela or Chad — or Canada for the love of God — for unrestricted birthright citizenship.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/04/02/justice-jacksons-turning-japanese-argument-is-so-dumb-it-stuns/
