The Identity Politicization of the Supreme Court
29th April 2022
It’s no coincidence that the plot to impeach Justice Clarence Thomas comes at the same time as Ketanji Brown Jackson’s appointment to the Supreme Court.
Conservatives see the Supreme Court as a forum for legal arguments about government power, while leftists see it, like all institutions, as a forum for moral arguments about the urgent measures needed to address the victimhood of oppressed groups. The former see legal arguments as moral because they are grounded in the Constitution and the nation’s founding while the latter see legal arguments as tools for achieving moral outcomes for the oppressed.