As if the birthright citizenship case wasn’t abhorrent enough, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson managed to find a way to make it even more cringeworthy.
Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson used the tik tok slang phrase "understood the assignment" in her concurring opinion for the birthright citizenship case pic.twitter.com/c4tDYq0LMN
— Pericles (@PerryALPHA) June 30, 2026
Jackson decided that the landmark case that will be examined in law school classes for the next generation was the moment to drop the hyper-online Gen Z parlance of “understood the assignment” in a decision that is so baffling that one would immediately assume that it has to be fake.
Unfortunately for legal scholars, the line is very real. Hidden away in the third paragraph of Jackson’s opinion, buried on the 33rd page of the decision, you can find the travesty.
“In the aftermath of the Civil War, those who championed the Fourteenth Amendment—both within and beyond Congress—understood the assignment,” Jackson wrote. As you can imagine, the choice didn’t receive the warmest of welcomes.
Good lord the DEI justice is now using TikTok slang in concurring opinions. https://t.co/g2EcaUPf6y pic.twitter.com/6mN40iFHMA
— Dem L’s (@Dems__Ls) June 30, 2026
— Norm Cruise (@normposter) June 30, 2026
Wait did she really use the phrase “understood the assignment” in a Supreme Court decision? God help us. We have retarded women using TikTok lingo on the Supreme Court. Literally something out of Idiocracy. We are doomed. https://t.co/RQEOit759r
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) June 30, 2026
Unsurprisingly, this isn’t the first time that Jackson has pulled something like this. Last year, she employed the use of a “wait for it” in a case that found that lower courts didn’t have the power to issue universal injunctions.
She previously dropped a "wait for it."
— Jarvis (@jarvis_best) June 30, 2026
It is only a matter of time before she uses a gif. https://t.co/hV91GW789z pic.twitter.com/Z9XT33Oje8
If there’s one thing Americans can take away from Jackson’s tenure on the Supreme Court, it’s that truly anyone can become a SCOTUS justice.
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