Justice Jackson compares Voting Rights Act to Americans with Disabilities Act
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, in her arguments related to Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, attempted to make comparisons with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Just as ADA made buildings accessible to Americans with disabilities, Jackson reasoned that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act made voting available to minorities. Section 2 of this act is apparently being used to gerrymander by race.
From Fox News:
“Going back to this discriminatory intent point — and the fact that remedial action, absent discriminatory intent, is really not a new idea in civil rights laws. And my paradigmatic example of this is something like the ADA,” Jackson said.
“Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act against the backdrop of a world that was generally not accessible to people with disabilities. And so it was discriminatory, in effect, because these folks were not able to access these buildings — and [it] didn’t matter whether the person who built the building, or the person who owned the building, intended for them to be exclusionary. That’s irrelevant,” she continued.
“Congress said the facilities have to be made equally open to people with disabilities, if readily possible. I guess I don’t understand why that’s not what’s happening here.”
Jackson went on to note that the idea of Section 2 is that the government “is responding to current-day manifestations of past and present decisions that disadvantaged minorities,” and to “make it so they now have equal access to the voting system, right? They’re disabled,” she said, drilling down on the hypothetical.
The lawyer arguing for Louisiana interjected to note, “The difference is that the remedy under the ADA and other anti-discrimination laws are not stereotyping.”
“It’s not race-based,” Jackson quickly agreed of the ADA and other discrimination laws. “I take your point.”
“But what you’re saying, then, that if the problem of no access is about race, ‘it’s just too bad,’ because you can’t have a remedy that relates to race?”
“Absolutely not, Your Honor,” counsel responded.
Despite the heavy backlash that erupted on social media and suggestions that she was describing Black people or other minorities as “disabled,” Jackson’s remarks were not unique — nor were they unique in the eyes of the Supreme Court.
Additional Reading:
Deppisch, B. (2025, October 16). Justice Jackson’s remarks on minority voters spark heavy backlash: ‘They’re disabled’. Fox News. Link.
Does she know what a minority or a black person is? I only ask because she had no idea what a woman was and she probably is one.
Sane, straight, Christians that know which bathroom to use are the minority in some places
SCOTUS’ DEI hire beclowns herself once again.
Her appointment encapsulates The Biden Regime. She checked a whole bunch of boxes except competency.
Democrats being helpful to minority folk again:
The “logical” conclusion dims will reach when they put groups into boxes and pecking orders based on their immutable characteristics. Johnny Reb dims from the 1860s and before must be proud.
What do you expect form a DEI hire to the SCOTUS from the biden admin.
She is a very special kind of stupid.. so much so that she has no clue how out of her depth she is in that role.
1000% Yep.
Her brain is disabled.
Interesting how so many Harvard law graduates turn out to be not so bright. A sentence from the Wikipedia article about her—
“After high school, Jackson matriculated at Harvard University to study government, having applied despite her guidance counselor’s advice to set her sights lower“
She cannot define “woman” but I will bet she can define “Affirmative Action”.
Every minority lawyer in the US is going to starve to death if the average normie starts to believe that Kentaji is the creme de la creme of minority jurisprudence as her role at SCOTUS implies.
Where do they find these semi-retarded lawers to put on the bench? Apparently she thinks all blacks should get special accommodations for voting because they are mentally disabled. But what can we expect from a lawer and judge who can’t define the word “woman.” Back when I was a sophomore in high school, I knew it was simply an adult female human. How complicated is that? And I hadn’t even taken high school biology yet.
Agreed, it takes a special kind of stupid to not no the difference between an “innie” and “outie”.
*sigh*
She must use 3/5ths of her brain…
LMAO. I see what you did there!
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And I bet she’s one of those who parks in the handicapped parking place.
She and Sotomayor are 24K DEI picks who were chosen by a D-rat Prez because they were known to be a rubber stamp for the D-rat party’s agenda!
Absolutely true! If she and Soto weren’t black and Hispanic, respectively, they never would have been nominated.