Calvinball! Biden’s DEI pick accuses fellow SCOTUS justices of being in the bag for Trump

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson invoked a popular comic strip in an angry dissent, accusing her colleagues of being in the bag for President Donald J. Trump.

The left-winger who was appointed by disgraced former President Joe Biden to fulfill his pledge to put a black woman on the SCOTUS has repeatedly shown that she lacks the intellect and temperament for the job with her emotional antics.

Not that another example was needed, but Jackson served it up anyway, describing the court’s latest overruling of an activist lower court judge who blocked the ending of DEI-based grants at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as “Calvinball.”

Justice Jackson, dissenting in SCOTUS decision allowing Trump admin to cut DEI-related NIH grants:

“This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist. Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.” pic.twitter.com/u6AD9NHoqS

— Gabe Fleisher (@WakeUp2Politics) August 21, 2025

In what appears to be a first for a sitting SCOTUS justice in a formal ruling, the fictitious game from the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip has been put into play, an argument that would seem to be more appropriate for social media, a forum where Jackson’s emotional and uninformed tirades belong, not on the bench of the nation’s highest court.

Calvinball: where the rules are made up and the points don’t matter. #CalvinandHobbes #Calvinball pic.twitter.com/7tqiHzpoJe

— Calvin and Hobbes Fan Account (@Calvinn_Hobbes) August 11, 2025

“This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist. Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins,” she wrote, referring to the Oxford English Dictionary definition of the comic game.

Jackson was venting over her frustration with the court’s “lawmaking” on the shadow docket, accusing the majority of having “[bent] over backwards to accommodate” Trump.

In the Thursday ruling, the SCOTUS sided 5-4 with the administration, allowing it to proceed with the cancellation of $783 million in NIH research grants tied to DEI initiatives, including LGBTQ and other hot-button issues. Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the KBJ and the court’s other two Democrat-appointed left-wing women.

Jackson argued that “life-saving biomedical research” was at stake, a talking point frequently used by the political left to defend their cherished DEI programs.

“So, unfortunately, this newest entry in the Court’s quest to make way for the Executive Branch has real consequences, for the law and for the public,” she wrote.

It’s completely logical that Jackson would oppose any rolling back of DEI since she herself is a beneficiary of the racially discriminatory policies.

Biden ruled out anyone but an African-American female for the Supreme Court spot that was opened up by the retirement of Bill Clinton appointee Stephen Breyer in 2022, the historic first black woman to sit on the SCOTUS, a reward for Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), who saved his political life in the 2020 Democratic primaries.

Constitutional law expert and Fox News contributor, Professor Jonathan Turley, was critical of Jackson’s frequent forays into political “rhetoric” in a recent column.

“The histrionic and hyperbolic rhetoric has increased in Jackson’s opinions, which at times portray her colleagues as abandoning not just the Constitution but democracy itself,” Turley wrote.

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Chris Donaldson is an ordinary American who is concerned about rampant corruption as well as the ongoing attacks on our way of life by those who have contempt for our hard-earned freedoms. A Navy veteran, he has been a frequent contributor to conservative websites and resides in Florida.

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