Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

Justice Jackson is Going It Alone on the Supreme Court

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Justice Jackson stands alone: the Supreme Court’s junior member finds herself isolated even from fellow liberals

Justice Jackson stands alone: the Supreme Court's junior member finds herself isolated even from fellow liberalsAlex Tanzer – Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has carved out a singular position on the Supreme Court this term, and not in the way her supporters might have hoped.

Across at least five recent cases, the bench’s most junior justice issued lone opinions or separate dissents that put her at odds not just with the conservative majority but, increasingly, with her own liberal colleagues.

The pattern reached its sharpest point when the Court ruled 8-1 to let the Trump administration resume plans for large-scale federal workforce layoffs. Jackson was the sole dissenter. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, her most natural ally, declined to join her, writing separately that the specific agency layoff plans were not yet before the Court. Even in disagreement, Sotomayor chose a narrower path, as the Washington Examiner reported. Continue reading →

Justice Jackson’s Jurisprudence: Refreshing or Rule-Breaking?

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The Judicial Calvinball of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

The Judicial Calvinball of Justice Ketanji Brown JacksonJonathan Turley -“I just feel that I have a wonderful opportunity.”

Those words of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson came in a recent interview, wherein the justice explained how she felt liberated after becoming a member of the Supreme Court “to tell people in my opinions how I feel about the issues. And that’s what I try to do.”

Jackson’s sense of liberation has increasingly become the subject of consternation on the court itself, as she unloads on her colleagues in strikingly strident opinions.

Most recently, Jackson went ballistic after her colleagues reversed another district court judge who issued a sweeping injunction barring the Trump Administration from canceling roughly $783 million in grants in the National Institutes of Health. Continue reading →

The Courtroom Showdown: Barrett vs. Jackson and the Future of American Justice

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Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Thunderclap Heard Around the Republic

Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Thunderclap Heard Around the RepublicCharlton Allen – Andrea Widburg called it “the nastiest judge-on-judge smackdown I’ve ever seen.” She wasn’t wrong.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s rebuke of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in Trump v. CASA, Inc. was sweeping and ferocious—and for good reason.

Jackson’s dissent did not merely differ in tone or jurisprudence. It was a judicial manifesto, a radical blueprint to recast the federal judiciary as the final, universal enforcer of national policy.

Justice Barrett met fire with fire—and then buried the dissent beneath the ash. Continue reading →