Judicial Crisis Network puts $1.5M behind ad accusing Judge Jackson of misunderstanding Justice Thomas

EXCLUSIVE: The Judicial Disaster Community (JCN) launched a $1.5 million advert purchase Wednesday that’s essential of Supreme Courtroom nominee Choose Ketanji Brown Jackson’s earlier assertion that she doesn’t perceive Justice Clarence Thomas, the nation’s second Black justice. 

The advert, titled “Misunderstood,” will air nationally in Washington, D.C., on cable TV and digitally as Jackson’s affirmation hearings are underway within the Senate. If confirmed, President Biden’s nominee would develop into the primary Black girl to serve on the excessive court docket.

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The advert purchased by the conservative group highlights Jackson’s quote after spending time with Thomas when she was a regulation clerk for Justice Stephen Breyer greater than twenty years in the past: “I do not perceive you.”

The advert encourages Jackson and others to observe a documentary about Thomas known as “Created Equal,” which tells the story of the longest serving justice and the way’s he defended the Structure within the face of 30 years of assaults from the left for his conservative beliefs.

“For greater than 30 years the left has focused Justice Thomas as a result of he thinks for himself,” JCN President Carrie Severino mentioned in a press release. “Now that he’s the Courtroom’s main mental voice, he’s within the Left’s crosshairs greater than ever as they wage a struggle to intimidate and undermine him. Everybody ought to watch Created Equal in order that they will see who the true Justice Thomas is, somewhat than simply the Left’s nasty caricature.”

Thomas, 73, has been on the Supreme Courtroom since 1991 after being nominated by former President George H.W. Bush to succeed Thurgood Marshall, the nation’s first Black justice. 

Thomas has been sick with an an infection and was admitted to Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., on Friday night after experiencing flu-like signs. Thomas didn’t take part in a 3rd straight day of oral arguments within the courtroom Wednesday. 

As essentially the most senior justice, Thomas decides who writes the bulk opinion if Chief Justice John Roberts is within the minority in a case. The Supreme Courtroom has a 6-3 conservative majority.

The advert comprises video of Thomas’ life and his feedback characterizing a longstanding criticism: “You’re not likely Black since you’re not doing what we anticipate Black folks to do,” Thomas says.

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Thomas has lengthy been a political lightning rod for his conservative views. And Jackson had her personal temporary skilled encounter with the court docket’s senior affiliate justice.

When working for Breyer greater than twenty years in the past, Jackson and different regulation clerks on the time had lunch with Thomas. 

Supreme Courtroom Affiliate Justice Clarence Thomas on the ceremonial swearing-in ceremony for Amy Coney Barrett to be the U.S. Supreme Courtroom Affiliate Justice.
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She later advised the authors of a 2007 biography of Thomas, “Supreme Discomfort,” what she was considering on the time in regards to the right-leaning justice.

“‘I do not perceive you. You sound like my mother and father. You sound just like the folks I grew up with.’ However the classes he tended to attract from the experiences of the segregated South appeared to be completely different than these of all people I do know,” Jackson reportedly thought whereas having lunch with the justice as a regulation clerk.

Fox Information’ Invoice Mears and Shannon Bream contributed to this report.