Ketanji Brown Jackson just achieved something truly historic on the Supreme Court — she managed to land so far to the left that even Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan wouldn’t follow her there. All eight of her colleagues, liberal and conservative alike, told her she was wrong. Eight to one.
Somebody get this woman a pocket Constitution and a highlighter. Maybe start with the First Amendment.
The case is *Chiles v. Salazar*, and it involves a Christian counselor named Kaley Chiles in Colorado Springs who does nothing but talk therapy. No drugs, no electrodes, no physical anything — she talks to kids who voluntarily walk into her office seeking help with unwanted same-sex attraction or gender confusion. So naturally, Colorado Democrats made that illegal.
Under their 2019 law, Chiles could only “affirm” a kid’s LGBTQ identity or help them “transition.” Anything else? Five thousand dollar fine, suspension, and kiss your license goodbye. Because nothing says “land of the free” quite like the government telling a therapist which words she’s allowed to use in a private conversation.
Justice Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion and took Colorado’s argument apart piece by piece. He pointed out that “any law that suppresses speech based on viewpoint represents an ‘egregious’ assault” on the First Amendment. Then he reminded the court that not long ago, the American Psychiatric Association considered homosexuality a mental disorder — meaning Colorado’s logic would have allowed states to ban counselors from *affirming* gay clients back then. Whoops.
Gorsuch also dropped this beauty: “Colorado and the dissent ask us to recognize a cavernous ‘First Amendment Free Zone,’ one in which States may censor almost any speech they consider ‘substandard care.’” Democrats wanted the government to tell your therapist what she’s allowed to say to you. That’s it. That’s the whole agenda. And Jackson was the only justice on the entire bench who thought that sounded like a fantastic idea.
Now let’s talk about that dissent. Jackson didn’t just disagree — she threw a full-blown judicial meltdown across 35 pages. She produced more words than all eight other justices put together, and she still couldn’t persuade a single one of them. That’s not passion. That’s a cry for help.
She then read the whole thing from the bench, which justices only do when they want maximum drama. (Imagine being the other eight justices sitting there while she reads a short novel at them. Somebody pass Alito a crossword puzzle.) Over a case about whether a counselor can have a conversation.
Jackson warned that the ruling could cause “our medical system” to “unravel” and bring about “a precipitous drop in the quality of healthcare services in America.” Because apparently, if one Christian lady in Colorado Springs is allowed to talk to teenagers who come to her voluntarily, the entire American healthcare infrastructure collapses. Hospitals crumble. Doctors forget how to do surgery. Chaos reigns.
The best part? Her own liberal allies publicly smacked her down. Kagan wrote a concurrence specifically calling out Jackson’s reasoning, noting that Jackson’s view “rests on reimagining — and in that way collapsing — the well-settled distinction between viewpoint-based and other content-based speech restrictions.” Translation: “Girl, that’s not how any of this works.” Kagan even hit her with a footnote pointing out that Jackson’s own dissent contradicted itself. When Sotomayor and Kagan join six conservatives to tell you that you’ve gone too far, you haven’t just crossed a line — you’ve left the solar system.
This is who Democrats put on the Supreme Court. Remember, this is the justice who couldn’t define the word “woman” during her confirmation hearings. She got that softball lobbed right at her face and whiffed on national television — like Steve Urkel at bat in the World Series. Now she’s arguing that the government should control what words a licensed therapist speaks to a patient behind closed doors. Jackson apparently thinks the First Amendment doesn’t apply if you have a counseling license.
And we need to connect the dots here, because this isn’t just about one justice having a bad day. This is what Democrats want for your country — the government playing doctor with your kid. Colorado Democrats wrote this law. Democrats in 22 other states wrote identical laws. They wanted to make it illegal for a counselor to say anything other than “yes, sweetie, you’re right, let’s get you on puberty blockers.” That’s not therapy. That’s the government with a stethoscope telling your family what to think.
Kaley Chiles put it perfectly after the ruling: “Kids deserve real help affirming that their bodies are not a mistake.” What a radical concept — telling children that their healthy bodies aren’t broken. In 2025 America, that idea required a trip to the Supreme Court.
Constitutional scholar Ilya Shapiro quipped on X that we need a whole new category of judicial opinion: “concurring, dissenting, expressing exasperation with Justice Jackson.” At this rate, they might need to print that on the official court forms.
The 23 states with these speech bans should start writing their eulogies now. Lower courts are going to take one look at this ruling and those laws are dead. And KBJ will be right there on the bench, cranking out another 35-page dissent that nobody joins — the loneliest woman in Washington wondering why the Constitution keeps ruining her plans.
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