President Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the D.C. Circuit to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court. This is the fifth post on her nomination. It analyzes what Judge Jackson told the Senate Judiciary Committee and whether what she said is consistent with her judicial record. It also details how Senate Democrats have dealt with nominees who have preached a judicial philosophy of originalism. The first post detailed who Judge Jackson is and what President Biden wants in a Supreme Court nominee. The second post examined and critiqued her opinion in Committee on the Judiciary v. McGahn (D.D.C. 2019) where she held the House Judiciary Committee's subpoena of former White House Counsel Don McGahn was enforceable in federal court. The third post provided 25 questions for Senators to ask Judge Jackson at her confirmation hearing. The fourth post analyzed the originalist and textualist records of President Trump's Supreme Court nominees.

The Big Picture

In his seminal graphic novel, The Watchmen, author Alan Moore presents a near future dystopia where law enforcement, unable to protect the citizenry, is supplanted by crime-fighting vigilantes. With no clear check against the vigilantes’ abuse of their power, the public quickly turns against these masked “heroes” using the oft repeated rallying cry: Who watches the Watchmen?

FreedomWorks is proud to announce that our member of the month for April 2021 is Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.). A new member now representing Florida’s 19th Congressional District in the southwest part of the state, Rep. Donalds came to Washington as a FreedomWorks For America-endorsed candidate after years of public service representing his fellow Floridians in the Florida House of Representatives.

On behalf of our activist community, I urge you to contact your representative and ask him or her to cosponsor the proposed amendment to the Constitution, H.J.Res. 11, to require that the number of Supreme Court be limited to nine. Introduced by Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.), the proposed constitutional amendment would prevent congressional Democrats from playing politics with the Supreme Court.

FreedomWorks is proud to announce that our bill of the month for December 2020 is S.J.Res. 76, Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) “Keep Nine” constitutional amendment to require that the Supreme Court be composed of nine justices.