Justice Jackson says MAGA SCOTUS plays "Calvinball."

[kairos12]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/25/politics/supreme-court-justices-trump-lower-court

snip:
In a biting dissent in the research grant decision on Thursday, liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson described the result as “Calvinball jurisprudence,” in reference to the popular “Calvin and Hobbes” comic.

“Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules,” Jackson wrote. “We seem to have two: that one, and this administration always wins.”

That is perfect response to MAGATS on SCOTUS.

[Torchlight]

1. In my most authoritative voice... "I'll allow it."

Calvinball may be the most accurate summation I've read to date.

[unblock]

2. lol! Perfect judicial analysis!

[SSJVegeta]

3. She can and should run for president

If, of course, there is no risk of us losing that seat in the process. I know they can run while still being seated, but dont know how else her tenure could be affected if she did.

[Raven123]

5. I don't know. She is brilliant as a SC justice. We need her voice

I get your point though. We really need a clone!

[SSJVegeta]

12. I dont care who it is. Anybody who can exemplify that level of moral courage so loudly

And in every issue possible. That's all im asking... lol

[newdeal2]

4. We know at least two of them have no morals or brains

They are simply a rubber stamp for money and power.

I don’t understand how the other four can agree with ending democracy except that they are also paid for or groomed by the Heritage Foundation.

[BurnDoubt]

6. The Best Judiciary Money Can Buy!!!!!

Someone was going to say it, So I Did.
Open-faced despicable-deplorable.
McConnell bought his seat at the Right Hand Of Satan.
A straight-up rip-off of at least two Supreme Court seats, defacing the future of America's Children.
It's up to them, now, to reclaim their Future. We have failed them and History needs us to intervene on their behalf and give our final measure of strength to undo this Travesty.

[Initech]

7. Yup. That is a very apt description. Something is rotten in DC. Time to find out what.

[barbtries]

8. History will record her dissents,

and others, with greater regard than the corrupt maga justices will rate; no, they will be vilified in history for turning their backs on every fucking thing that made America great, starting with the rule of law and equality under the law.

[proud patriot]

13. well said

[Dem2theMax]

9. For Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson -

[irisblue]

10. I had to google 'Calvinball'. Justice Brown Jackson is damn right

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. Deadline: Legal Blog-Why Ketanji Brown Jackson accused the Supreme Court of playing 'Calvinball' for Trump

The Biden appointee is alone again in calling out her high court colleagues.

Why Ketanji Brown Jackson accused the Supreme Court of playing ‘Calvinball’ for Trump www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

— @jimrissmiller.bsky.social 2025-08-22T20:33:11.652Z

https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court-trump-calvinball-rcna226523

The newspaper comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes” had a fictional game called “Calvinball,” the rules of which are made up and constantly changing. The only fixed rule is that you can’t play it the same way twice....

In a solo opinion on the Trump administration’s quest to cut National Institutes of Health research grants, she wrote that in the court’s version of Calvinball, “this Administration always wins.”

It’s a remarkable statement from a sitting Supreme Court justice — she was clear to specify “this” administration — and not the first time that she has struck out on her own to publicly address her colleagues in stark terms.

Jackson is one of three Democratic appointees on the court, along with six Republican appointees. This was the latest example of Obama appointees Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan declining to sign on to some of Jackson’s strongest language. (All three Democratic appointees joined Chief Justice John Roberts’ opinion in the NIH matter, a case that produced a tangle of separate opinions, including Jackson’s.)

In her solo effort, Jackson described the NIH case as the “newest entry in the Court’s quest to make way for the Executive Branch.” She said it’s one that “has real consequences, for the law and for the public,” and she expressed the hope that “affected grant recipients can find a way to maintain their research studies — and their legal claims — long enough to give the Court the chance to change its mind.”