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Letter: Welcome to new justice

By Peter Brown, Vancouver
Published: April 15, 2022, 6:00am

Welcome to the court, Ketanji Brown Jackson!

There, was that so hard? No crying fits, no preapproval keggers, no dancing around sexual misconducts, no trips to the Handmaiden’s locker room, no questions on qualifications or race or gender. We have a new Supreme Court justice, we have a person in place that is so qualified even a Mitch could not block her, albeit not for lack of trying. We did it inside the GOP-mandated yearlong acceptance deadline.

When you bring competence, experience and sanity to the table not even a Kruz Klansman or a Graham Cracker can derail the obvious. Folks, when you bring somebody so obviously right for the job, even with all the ugliness stirred up over the last six years, you cannot stop the process.

Welcome to the bench, Your Honor. I wonder what took us so long?

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