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US supreme court expedites Voting Rights Act ruling so Louisiana can redraw its maps for midterms https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/supreme-court-expedites-voting-rights-act-ruling #UsSupremeCourt #Louisiana #UsMidtermElections2026 #Race #KetanjiBrownJackson #ClarenceThomas #SamuelAlito #NeilGorsuch #UsPolitics #UsNews
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Samuel Alito justified a Supreme Court ruling that threatens majority-Black voting districts
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/scotus-further-guts-voting-rights
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Compare him to #KetanjiBrownJackson, who is easily the most qualified #SupremeCourt appointee in my 67 years on this planet.
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Justice Jackson Publicly Criticizes Supreme Court's Handling of Emergency Orders
📰 Original title: Ketanji Brown Jackson Just Gave A Blistering Public Takedown Of Supreme Court
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While designed to be short-term, those orders have largely allowed #Trump to move ahead — for now — with key parts of his sweeping agenda.
#KetanjiBrownJackson spoke for nearly an hour on Monday at Yale Law School, which posted a video of the event on Wednesday.
#law #LegalEthics #SCOTUS #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #judiciary
https://law.yale.edu/yls-today/yale-law-school-videos/james-thomas-lecture-justice-ketanji-brown-jackson -
#SCOTUS Justice #KetanjiBrownJackson has delivered a sustained attack on her conservative colleagues’ use of emergency orders to benefit the #Trump admin, calling the orders “scratch-paper musings” that can “seem oblivious & thus ring hollow.”
Jackson delivered a lengthy assessment of ~24 court orders issued last year that allowed Trump to put in place controversial policies on #immigration, steep federal #funding cuts & other topics, after lower courts found they were likely illegal.
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Meanwhile #Sotomayor apologized to #Kavanaugh today. Ridiculous.
#KetanjiBrownJackson seems to be the only liberal with real integrity.
Justice Jackson chides #SCOTUS conservatives over 'oblivious' pro-#Trump “emergency” orders
#law #LegalEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #compromised #judiciary
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-jackson-criticism-conservatives-trump-rulings-976a16d91953f42426818add77c7e3f2 -
Ketanji Brown Jackson condemns conservative justices’ pro-Trump orders https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/15/ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court-conservative-judges-trump #KetanjiBrownJackson #UsSupremeCourt #UsNews #WorldNews #UsPolitics #DonaldTrump #TrumpAdministration
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Chief Justice #JohnRoberts is asking tough questions of both sides. He’s referring to the key 1898 precedent in Wong Kim Ark, which mentions 20X that Wong’s parents were “domiciled” or had permanent residence in the #US. Roberts asks the #ACLU atty if that language can just be dismissed as irrelevant.
Earlier, Justice #KetanjiBrownJackson asked of the #Trump admin atty, “Are we bringing women in for depositions? How are we figuring this out?”
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Only Justice #KetanjiBrownJackson dissented, reading a lengthy summary of her opposition from the bench.
Colorado’s statute, adopted in 2019, prohibits “any practice or treatment” that tries to change a minor’s “gender expressions or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attraction or feelings toward individuals of the same sex.”
#SCOTUS #Colorado #law #MentalHealth #SexualOrientation #gender #identity #LGBTQ #ConversionTherapy
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In her dissenting opinion, which was joined by Justices #KetanjiBrownJackson & Elena #Kagan, Justice Sonia #Sotomayor blasted the court’s conservative majority for using one set of rules to uphold #redistricting maps that benefit #white voters & #Republicans in states like #Texas while using a completely different set of rules to strike down maps that benefit racial “minorities” & #Democrats in places like #NewYork.
#law #SCOTUS #democracy #VRA #ElectionLaw #gerrymandering #authoritarianism
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Sen. Blackburn Gets Shitty Because Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Attended An Awards Show Where ICE Was Criticized
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"Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Told You So, Social Security Edition" from @emptywheel
Those who claim there is no difference between Democratic party and Republican party should be required to explain their theory of how Ketanji Brown Jackson and Samual Alito are exactly the same
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A new study has bolstered a scathing dissent from liberal #SCOTUS Justice #KetanjiBrownJackson that warned the court appeared to favor the #rich.
The study, published Monday by the National Bureau of Economic Research, investigated whether the Supreme Court has contributed to rising #IncomeInequality by ruling in favor of policies that favor #wealthy parties.
#law #SCOTUS4Sale #injustice
https://www.thedailybeast.com/scotus-justice-ketanji-brown-jacksons-blistering-dissent-vindicated-by-bombshell-study/ -
This is the nastiest opinion by a Supreme Court justice in 2025 – Slate
This Is the Nastiest Opinion by a Supreme Court Justice in 2025
It was the perfect shadow-docket sandwich.
By Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern, Jan 03, 20265:45 AM
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Every year, Amicus co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern invite listeners to nominate the Supreme Court’s most egregious behavior, then choose their own “worst of the worst” to memorialize the most ignominious moments. In 2025, there was no shortage of contenders. In a preview of their conversation on this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, Lithwick reveals the SCOTUS lowlight that still rankles her the most. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.
Mark Joseph Stern: We certainly had a bumper crop of bad decisions this year. What’s your nominee for worst of the worst?
Dahlia Lithwick: There were a lot of decisions in 2025 that immiserated huge amounts of people and made the world materially worse. But my pick is not one of those. Instead, I need to talk about NIH v. American Public Health Association. Yes, it has to do with slashing research grants, which does materially harm a lot of people. But more profoundly for me, this case is emblematic of every single level of destruction and mayhem coming out of the Supreme Court—all the arrogance bundled into one.
So let me take you back to August, when the justices handed down NIH. It’s another unsigned, incoherent shadow-docket order pausing U.S. District Judge William Young’s decision to block the Trump administration from canceling thousands of National Institutes of Health grants—including those supporting research into suicide prevention, HIV transmission, Alzheimer’s, and cardiovascular disease. The NIH is the largest funder of medical research in the world, but Donald Trump’s executive orders forced it to cancel all those grants because they allegedly promoted DEI, “gender ideology,” and COVID research. Young held a bench trial, then issued a 103-page opinion laying out extensive factual findings and holding that the agency must make good on the payments of these grants. A federal appeals court agreed.
Then the Trump administration appealed to the Supreme Court in an emergency posture. And the justices hand down a 5–4 decision that’s totally inscrutable but says that Young contradicted a different 5–4 shadow-docket order from last April, Department of Education v. California. That decision halted another judge’s efforts to require the administration to reinstate canceled education grants. And the court asserted that it controlled this case. Right there, you have the perfect shadow-docket sandwich: perfunctory, bad decisionmaking, conclusory predictions about what constitutes an “emergency” and who’s going to win, decided in a couple of days, wiping out extensive factual findings. And it’s rooted in a different shadow-docket order that, as Justice Elena Kagan said at the time, was “at the least under-developed, and very possibly wrong.”
So likely wrong, in fact, that Chief Justice John Roberts actually dissented from California, and dissented again in NIH! It takes a lot of nonsense to make the chief jump ship. But the majority in both cases said that the plaintiffs had to seek reimbursement from the Court of Federal Claims rather than the district court through the Administrative Procedure Act. Which is both obviously wrong and, as a practical matter, impossible much of the time.
This is why the court doesn’t decide national “emergencies” with some back-of-the-cocktail-napkin, invisible-ink reasoning, then expect judges across the country to act as though it wrote a law-review article on the subject. Here’s Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson:
Today’s decision reveals California’s considerable wingspan: That case’s ipse dixit now apparently governs all APA challenges to grant-funding determinations that the government asks us to address in the context of an emergency stay application. A half paragraph of reasoning (issued without full briefing or any oral argument) thus suffices here to partially sustain the government’s abrupt cancellation of hundreds of millions of dollars allocated to support life-saving biomedical research.
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I want to get to the ham in the shadow-docket sandwich. Famously, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote a snotty concurring opinion, joined by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, that went after Young—a senior district judge with 47 years on the bench and a Ronald Reagan appointee. Gorsuch and Kavanaugh accused him of ignoring their shadow-docket ruling, claiming that it “squarely controlled” his case. And Gorsuch snippily noted: “Lower court judges may sometimes disagree with this court’s decisions, but they are never free to defy them.” And he continued:
This is now the third time in a matter of weeks this Court has had to intercede in a case squarely controlled by one of its precedents. All these interventions should have been unnecessary, but together they underscore a basic tenet of our judicial system: Whatever their own views, judges are duty-bound to respect the hierarchy of the federal court system created by the Constitution and Congress.
That gets my vote for the single nastiest opinion of 2025. It even prompted Young to apologize to Gorsuch and Kavanaugh from the bench.
I hate this on so many levels.
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One thing that floats to mind is: Can you imagine how horrible it must be to have to work with these people every single day? This is how they treat lower-court judges—how do you think they treat colleagues like Jackson? No wonder she accused them of “Calvinball” in her NIH dissent. Maybe she’s being informed by the fact that her colleagues evidently treat her like garbage on and off the page. That’s why one of my contenders for “worst of the worst” is Justice Amy Coney Barrett condescendingly dismissing Jackson in her CASA decision. It just drips with contempt for her. I cannot imagine having to be collegial with these people.
The only thing I want to add to that is that judges are getting death threats and impeachment threats and being thrown under the bus by members of Congress and the president. And the justices on the Supreme Court themselves are like: Should I go after a senior district judge personally for not applying my inscrutable shadow-docket order? And do it in a way that makes it sound as if he’s reckless and insubordinate and doesn’t care about the law? Why, yes! Fantastic idea.
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Tags: 2025, Dahlia Lithwick, Department of Education v. California, Judge Young, Jurisprudence, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Justice Neil Gorsuch, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Mark Joseph Stern, Nastiest Opinion, NIH v. American Public Health Association, Shadow-Docket Sandwich, Slate, Supreme Court Justice
#2025 #DahliaLithwick #DepartmentOfEducationVCalifornia #JudgeYoung #Jurisprudence #JusticeBrettKavanaugh #JusticeNeilGorsuch #KetanjiBrownJackson #MarkJosephStern #NastiestOpinion #NIHVAmericanPublicHealthAssociation #ShadowDocketSandwich #Slate #SupremeCourtJustice -
Supreme Court Lets Trump Pause SNAP — Food Banks Scramble to Respond
Food banks are in “disaster response mode” after SCOTUS blocked a lower court order that the funds be distributed.https://murica.website/2025/11/supreme-court-lets-trump-pause-snap-food-banks-scramble-to-respond/
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In which #SCOTUS Justice #KetanjiBrownJackson pulls a #ChuckSchumer
"We must respect the probity and processes of the Federal Judicial system, knowing that it will do what's best for the nation."
**pukes**
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but wait there’s more!
#SCOTUS Justice #KetanjiBrownJackson has temporarily paused a lower court order that had required the #Trump admin to fully fund #FoodStamps during the govt #shutdown. In the order, Justice Jackson said she had issued the pause, called an administrative stay, to give the appeals court that will rule on the case more time to consider it. She wrote that she expected the appeals court to move swiftly & to issue a decision “with dispatch.”
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/07/us/trump-news-shutdown/e1a69962-4311-5d11-8e32-c09d4f6c561c?smid=url-share -
What would late civil rights icon and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall say about the current court?
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/thurgood-marshall-current-supreme-court
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Gotta check out #KetanjiBrownJackson dissent. I didn't know about "Calvinball" but it sounds like a parallel to the game friends and I made up years ago, "Ant Googee" where the first rule was to use good judgement.
Love this justice!
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-nih-dei-320a6b3749bf56703b50739362d1238c?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share -
US supreme court clears way for Trump officials to resume mass government firings https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/08/supreme-court-trump-federal-layoffs #Trumpadministration #KetanjiBrownJackson #USsupremecourt #USimmigration #DonaldTrump #Project2025 #Republicans #USpolitics #ElonMusk #USnews
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#SupremeCourt Clears Way for Mass #Firings at #Federal Agencies. The #Trump administration had asked the #justices to block a lower #court’s ruling that paused the largest phase of the president’s efforts to #downsize the #government. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/us/politics/supreme-court-federal-workers-layoffs.html #democracy #Treasury #HHS #SCOTUS #KetanjiBrownJackson #dissent #DOGE #Musk #maga #fascism #firings #layoffs #RIF #HHS #StateDepartment #executiveorder #federalworkforce Executive Order https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/14/2025-02762/implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency-workforce-optimization-initiative
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Justice Jackson has had an outsized number of of 8 to 1 rulings where she is the only voice of reason. I think its because the other two liberals are still trying to call balls and strikes based on the capabilities of the cases and lawyers presenting the cases. If this was a normal world so would Jackson but she knows none of that actually matters to the rest of the court so she takes the other side as a protest vote, often in hopes that her minority opinion report is heard by someone that matters. #KetanjiBrownJackson #SCOTUS -
#SupremeCourt July 3 allowed #Trump #regime to deport 8 men who have spent more than 1 month held under guard on American #military base on #Djibouti to #SouthSudan granting their request. The order allows the government to immediately send the men, who hail from countries around the world, to war-torn South Sudan. Neither the United States nor South Sudan has said what will happen to the men on their arrival. Justices #SoniaSotomayor and #KetanjiBrownJackson dissented. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a1153_2co3.pdf
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He added that Justice #SoniaSotomayor had made the same point in her dissent from the ruling, which Justices #ElenaKagan & #KetanjiBrownJackson joined. “The district court’s remedial orders are not properly before this court because the government has not appealed them,” she wrote.
In Thursday’s ruling, the majority rejected that distinction, paused both sets of rulings & allowed the *#deportations* to #SouthSudan.
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The order allows the #Trump admin to immediately send the men, who hail from countries around the world, to war-torn #SouthSudan. Neither the #US nor South Sudan has said what will happen to the men on their arrival.
Justices #SoniaSotomayor & #KetanjiBrownJackson dissented.
#SCOTUS last month paused a trial judge’s ruling that all immigrants whom the govt seeks to deport to countries other than their own must first be given a chance to show they would face risk of #torture.
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The newest member of the #SCOTUS, #KetanjiBrownJackson, is the epitome of the #rhetorical Justice. Last week, as the Court prepared to finish its work for the year, Jackson issued a pair of dissents that signalled her despair over the Court’s trajectory, her refusal to sugarcoat its behavior, & her willingness to break with her [appeasing] #liberal colleagues, #Kagan & Sonia #Sotomayor.
#law #dissent #resist #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #FederalistSociety #Christian #NewApostolicReformation