Trump lackey targets Supreme Court Justice, forgets his past has too many holes for him to even dare – We Got This Covered

An online conservative commentator named Charlie Kirk logged on X to declare that Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is a “diversity hire” because she’s a Black woman. He was quickly reminded that, unlike being a professional rabble-rouser on college campuses, some jobs actually require paperwork.

In Justices, Presidents, and Senators by Henry Julian Abraham, there’s an exploration of how the Constitution doesn’t technically require any qualifications for Supreme Court Justices — Robert H. Jackson, for example, got there without a law degree. Still, Justice Jackson has two Harvard degrees and a long legal career, as one X user so eloquently pointed out. On paper alone, Ketanji Brown Jackson has one of the most impressive resumes on the bench in recent history.

To understand why she’s even being criticized, sadly, you have to know who Charlie Kirk is. Inspired by conservative commentators like Ben Shapiro, who will randomly rant nonsense about Barbie for hours, Kirk dropped out of community college to start his own podcast and media network so he could also cash in on the wannabe provocateur industry, picking fights with Gen Z students on pro-life, white privilege, and whatever other “debate me, bro” topics are trending that week.

Sometimes, though, Kirk skips what polite society would call “boundaries.” Once, he traveled to the site where George Floyd was murdered, calling on anyone idle enough to debate him there about Floyd’s legacy. The story gained traction, and per AP, Kirk declared Floyd a “scumbag” unworthy of the movement and attention his death inspired. Not because Kirk particularly believes murder is justified if he considers you a “scumbag,” but because he says anything that will outrage progressives and excite racists. Charlie Kirk was even invited by the Oxford Union to discuss why people should be allowed to say outrageous things. Groundbreaking stuff, truly.

In 2022, a year after Kirk’s Floyd remarks, Joe Biden nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman Supreme Court Justice. As you can imagine, figures like Kirk saw the moment only as an opportunity to push the same tired talking points that have worked for them before. That’s not even mentioning how MAGA circles have turned Harvard into a cartoon villain in their culture wars. It’s worth noting that Kirk himself has called Harvard “liberal indoctrination”—an odd position from a man who has nothing in his own academic experience to compare it to.

Kirk’s media network is a nonprofit that relies on fundraising, and moments like this are gold for him. The cycle is simple: he says something outrageous, people push back, he cries that he’s being censored by “the deep state,” then fundraises off the outrage. Rinse, repeat. This is his tired formula for mobilizing his audience.

This is the rhetoric he’s built his career on, using the same racial dog whistles to report on figures like Democratic NYC Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, and he will keep doing it. Perhaps Kirk should focus on completing his own education, because while he’s busy naming and shaming “diversity hires,” his own status as a “pity hire” becomes more and more obvious.