What is going on with Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson?
In the middle of oral arguments Tuesday, she asked a question that was irrelevant for the key issue at hand, and that had clearly been answered less than an hour before she asked it.
Was she lying, just stalling for time, or did she simply pay no attention to the testimony before her very eyes?
The case, Mahmoud v. Taylor, involves Maryland parents of various faith backgrounds—Christian, Jewish, and Muslim—asking the court for a temporary injunction, allowing them to opt their kids out of instruction using LGBTQ books that Montgomery County Public Schools has mandated schools teach.
Early on in the oral arguments, Justice Clarence Thomas asked Eric Baxter, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty attorney representing the parents, whether the books are “just there” or “are they actually being…
