Ketanji Brown Jackson didn’t go residence a winner after Sunday’s Grammy Awards, however the Supreme Court docket justice’s mere presence on the star-studded ceremony was sufficient for a GOP lawmaker to name for an investigation.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) on Thursday stated she was involved about Jackson’s capacity to stay “above political affect” after seeing her participate within the Grammys, which she deemed a a “extremely politicized” occasion.
“We want an investigation into Justice Jackson’s capacity to stay neutral,” Blackburn wrote on X.
That very same day, Blackburn confirmed via her website that she’d despatched a letter to Supreme Court docket Chief Justice John Roberts urging him to “provoke an investigation” into Jackson’s participation at an occasion that includes “many polarized, extremely charged anti-law enforcement sentiments.”
“Whereas it’s not at all unprecedented or uncommon for a Supreme Court docket justice to attend a public perform, very not often — if ever — have justices of our nation’s highest Court docket been current at an occasion at which attendees have amplified such far-left rhetoric,” Blackburn wrote.
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She additionally pointed to Unhealthy Bunny and Billie Eilish, both of whom used their Grammy acceptance speeches to sentence President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigrants, in addition to the many stars who wore “ICE Out” pins denouncing Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers’ actions after the deadly shootings of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
“I urge you to provoke an investigation into Justice Jackson’s attendance at this occasion and if her participation in any method would require recusal from issues that may come earlier than the Court docket,” she concluded.
HuffPost reached out to the Supreme Court docket Public Info Workplace for touch upon Blackburn’s remarks, however didn’t instantly hear again.
Jackson was a first-time Grammy nominee for the audio model of her 2024 memoir, “Pretty One.” She misplaced within the spoken phrase album class to the Dalai Lama, who received for “Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.”
Nonetheless, Jackson appeared to get pleasure from herself on the Los Angeles ceremony, fortunately posing for images with Queen Latifah and producer Pat Houston, the sister-in-law of late pop singer Whitney Houston, amongst different notables.
Grammys host Trevor Noah took a number of swipes at Trump all through the ceremony. In his opening monologue, he joked that Trump would brag about having an even bigger “ass” than rapper Nicki Minaj, who has fully embraced the president’s MAGA agenda in current weeks.
Trump, in flip, deemed the Grammys “horrible” in a Monday publish on his Truth Social platform.
