US EditionKetanji Brown Jackson turns independent streak loose on fellow justices
UNITED STATES, JUL 5 – Justice Jackson leads the Supreme Court’s liberal wing with frequent dissents emphasizing equality, accountability, and justice, speaking 50% more than her closest liberal colleague this term, experts say.
- Jackson's solo dissent on birthright citizenship called the majority opinion 'an existential threat to the rule of law.' Justice Amy Coney Barrett rebuked it as at odds with centuries' precedent.
- Nominated by President Biden in 2022 as the first Black woman Supreme Court justice, Jackson has adopted an impassioned critique style, challenging conservative opinions and emphasizing equality.
- Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued over 20 opinions this term, the most since 1937, speaking 50% more than any other justice, highlighting her activism.
- In response to Jackson’s solo dissent, Justice Amy Coney Barrett rebuked her as “an existential threat to the rule of law,” while Trump supporters celebrated, claiming their attacks on Barrett had succeeded.
- More broadly, Jackson’s dissents emphasize equality, accountability, and access to justice, highlighting her as the Court’s most vocal progressive critic amid its rightward shift.
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Justice Warns of ‘Existential Threat to the Rule of Law’
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, in her first public appearance since the Supreme Court sharply limited the ability of federal judges to check presidential power, said she believes recent rulings by the court’s conservative majority pose an “existential threat to the rule of law,” ABC News reports.
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As Justice Jackson speaks her mind, a rebuke is fired off from the right
WASHINGTON — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote just five majority opinions in the Supreme Court term that ended last month, the fewest of any member of the court. But her voice resonated nonetheless, in an unusually large number of concurring…
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This mess we find our country in is all Chief Justice John Roberts’s fault. There are many other actors contributing to our current situation, but Roberts has been the most consequential of them. His actions lead to the conclusion that he wants to dismantle the “Second Founding” and return to a Confederate/Jim-Crow-style apartheid system. Roberts has been working his entire career to undermine the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, which were rat…
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