Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Declaration of Independence

Ketanji Brown Jackson Rips Supreme Court for ‘Stymying’ Civil Rights

The Court “will strip those South Carolinians—and countless other Medicaid recipients around the country—of a deeply personal freedom: the “ability to decide who treats us at our most vulnerable.”

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Declaration of Independence

The newest Justice is increasingly willing to condemn the actions of the conservative majority, even when that means breaking with her liberal colleagues.

Justice Jackson Shows Us How to Read a Statute ✦ OnLabor

The longer Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson serves on the Supreme Court, the more she builds the case that her appointment to the Court may be Joe Biden’s greatest accomplishment.  I hold out hope that someday her dissents will become majority opinions, but in the meantime she is at least alerting us to where her colleagues have […]

Justice Jackson challenges Supreme Court on constitutional interpretation

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has sparked a firestorm with her sharp critique of how her colleagues interpret the Constitution, raising eyebrows among those who value the document’s plain meaning. According to The Daily Caller, Jackson’s recent dissents accuse her fellow justices of viewing cases through what she calls a “distorted lens of pure textualism,” a method of legal interpretation that focuses on the literal text of laws a…