It was a bad sign two years ago when future Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, during her Senate confirmation hearing, said she couldn’t define the word woman because she wasn’t a biologist.

As Riley Gaines said recently, “I’m not a veterinarian but I can tell you what a dog is.”

Troubling signs about the newest justice just keep on coming.

It happened during a hearing yesterday on a case brought by the attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri charging numerous federal agencies - including the White House - with violating the First Amendment by pressuring social media to censor views that ran counter to the Biden administration narrative.

According to Fox News:

“Your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the federal government in significant ways in the most important time periods," Jackson told the lawyer representing Louisiana, Missouri and private plaintiffs. 

“The government actually has a duty to take steps to protect the citizens of this country... by encouraging or even pressuring platforms to take down harmful information," she said.

A DUTY to remove harmful information? 

Justice Louis Brandeis must be spinning in his grave. Here’s what that learned justice had to say about the cure for “bad speech:”

"If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."

Put simply: The cure for bad speech is more speech.

Supreme Court justices - intelligent ones - used to believe in the marketplace of ideas. (That, incidentally, was promoted by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes who believed that bad ideas should have to compete in the marketplace of ideas. How quaint!)

No more, apparently. 

Now we have at least one Supreme Court Justice - and I worry there are more dunces lurking beneath those black robes - who believe that the cure for bad speech is for the government to muzzle the speaker.

What was so dangerous that the Biden administration was pressuring Facebook and Twitter suppress it?

Oh, information about Hunter’s laptop. Correct information that the vaccines didn’t prevent disease or prevent transmission and were potentially dangerous, especially to young men. Criticism of lockdowns and school closures. And those disgruntled folks who dared to question the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election.

If Jackson has fellow travelers on the court, we’re doomed.

Bad enough that so many citizens are unaware that the precise purpose of the Constitution is to hamstring the government to keep it from infringing on our natural rights, but a SUPREME COURT JUSTICE?

How did this woman pass the bar exam, let alone be elevated to the highest court?

A few more like her and we’’ll be living in a dystopian society. Well, more dystopian than the country became during covid when fear of a virus was used to strip us of all manner of civil liberties.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey told Fox News Digital in an interview that Justice Jackson was "absolutely right."

“It is hamstringing, and it's supposed to. The whole purpose of the Constitution is to protect us from the government, and the government exists to protect our rights. But here, the federal government is ignoring our First Amendment protections and weaponizing the federal government to silence our voices," Bailey said.

“And she's right. It limits what the federal government can and can't do. And that's a good thing," he added. 

How did Ketanji Brown-Jackson not know this?