Did Ketanji Brown Jackson Just Defend the Racially Oppressive Post-Civil War ‘Black Codes’?

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson never seems to disappoint if you’re a PJ Media writer looking for the next thing to investigate. In the media business, you could say she’s “good copy.” And so today, during oral arguments in a Second Amendment case, Wolford v. Lopez, she did it again. 

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For background, the case itself centers on a Hawaiian law that does not allow people with public carry licenses to have their handguns on them when they are on private property that is open to the public, unless they have prior permission from the owner.  

I wrote in more detail about today’s arguments earlier. But one item from the day’s events at the Supreme Court simply demanded special attention. 

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