Anti-gunners’ Tasteless Judge Jackson Remark: ‘Badass’

U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- Everytown for Gun Safety, the billionaire-backed gun prohibition lobbying group bankrolled by anti-gun former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, went off the proverbial “deep end” in an email blast promoting the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.

In the message, sent early April 7 over the name of Kara Fitzgerald, field director of federal and distributed organizing for the Everytown lobbying group, the organization had this to say:

“We’re a movement of badass women.

“We need a badass woman on the Supreme Court.”

What would have been the media reaction if the National Rifle Association had expressed the same sentiment toward Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett?

There was more to the Everytown message deserving of scrutiny.

“Over the last several weeks, we’ve all gotten to know Judge Jackson. She’s incredibly qualified for the role that President Biden nominated her for. And we’re confident that she understands that reasonable gun safety measures are constitutional.

“With more gun safety cases coming before the courts and with more gun violence devastating our communities, our country needs someone like her on the Supreme Court.”

Following her confirmation by the U.S. Senate on a 53-47 vote with three Republican crossovers—Senators Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mitt Romney of Utah—Everytown gleefully sent another email blast, signed by nobody, stating in more subdued tones, “We supported Judge Jackson’s nomination because of her extensive experience as a public defender, a U.S. District Court Judge, and a U.S. Circuit Court Judge, and we’re confident she understands that reasonable gun safety measures are constitutional.”

What soon-to-be Associate Justice Jackson will not be able to do, or even influence, is participate in the high court’s impending ruling in the case of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, which could upend long-standing “good cause” requirements for obtaining a carry permit in the Empire State, and a handful of other states including New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts and California.

Waiting in the wings to be considered for review are cases challenging Maryland’s ban on so-called “assault weapons” and California’s ban on original-capacity ammunition magazines for rifles and pistols. If either case is accepted, arguments will be heard sometime in the next term, which begins on the first Monday of October, just weeks before this November’s midterm election.

Barring some unforeseen calamity, then-Justice Jackson will still be in what will be an all-female liberal minority, including Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. As noted by CNN, Jackson will not be seated until Associate Justice Stephen Breyer has officially retired at the end of the court’s current term.

But why would Everytown portray or even suggest Judge Jackson is “badass?” The term is rather unseemly and would almost certainly elicit righteous condemnation from the woke far left, where it applied to one of the other women now on the court.

However, Justice Barrett has been subjected to name-calling of another variety. The other day while speaking at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Barrett was targeted by a heckler calling her an “enslaver of women.” As quoted by Fox News, Justice Barrett fired back, “As a mother of seven, I am used to distractions—and sometimes even outbursts.”

The remark brought quick applause and laughter from the audience.

Much is being made of the fact that Judge Jackson will be the first Black female on the high court. Joe Biden made an issue out of race and gender on the campaign trail, while previous nominations to the court have not been similarly limited or defined.

In their second email, following Jackson’s confirmation, Everytown provided an ominous message.

“Our country is fortunate to have someone like her on the Supreme Court…Now, it’s time to get to work. This June, the Supreme Court is expected to decide a case brought by an NRA affiliate that could threaten the future of life-saving gun safety laws across the country.” This can only mean one thing; the gun control crowd is confident she will be a vote against Second Amendment rights.

The case they mention would be the New York case—the outcome of which has the gun prohibition lobby worried, if not downright scared—and the only laws it threatens are those that allow the denial of constitutional rights based on an arbitrary notion of “justifiable need.”

Judge Jackson hopefully will be able to make a distinction between “needs” and “rights,” and make future decisions accordingly.

About Dave Workman

Dave Workman is a senior editor at TheGunMag.com and Liberty Park Press, author of multiple books on the Right to Keep & Bear Arms, and formerly an NRA-certified firearms instructor.