• LISTEN: Supreme Court hears arguments on nuclear storage and federal agency power

    LISTEN: Supreme Court hears arguments on nuclear storage and federal agency power

    Mar 05, 2025 02:58 PM EDT

    ... one or two locations, Stewart said, relying on arguments made by Interim Storage Partners LLC, the company with the Texas license. Sotomayor, along with Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan and Brett Kavanaugh, seemed most inclined to reverse the 5th circuit. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett ...

  • Supreme Court rules against drivers in case that could make civil rights claims harder

    Supreme Court rules against drivers in case that could make civil rights claims harder

    Feb 25, 2025 06:20 PM EDT

    ... injunction stage are only speculative, and apply to only a small number of cases, the majority found. The opinion was written by Chief Justice John Roberts, and joined by his five fellow conservatives as well as a liberal-leaning justice, Elena Kagan. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.

  • Supreme Court temporarily blocks Trump from firing head of whistleblower office

    Supreme Court temporarily blocks Trump from firing head of whistleblower office

    Feb 22, 2025 12:02 AM EDT

    ... that the order expires in just a few days. Conservative justices Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito sided with the administration. Liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson would have rejected the administration's request. The conservative-dominated court has previously taken a robust view of presidential power, including in ...

  • Supreme Court seems open to age checks for online porn, though some free-speech questions remain

    Supreme Court seems open to age checks for online porn, though some free-speech questions remain

    Jan 15, 2025 08:49 PM EDT

    ... that could run afoul of the First Amendment. “How far can a state go in terms of burdening adults showing how old they are?” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asked. Justice Elena Kagan raised the concerns of a possible “spillover dangers" on other laws touching on free speech, whichever way the ...

  • LISTEN: Supreme Court hears arguments on Texas law restricting access to porn websites

    LISTEN: Supreme Court hears arguments on Texas law restricting access to porn websites

    Jan 14, 2025 10:40 PM EDT

    ... that could run afoul of the First Amendment. “How far can a state go in terms of burdening adults showing how old they are?” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asked. Justice Elena Kagan raised the concerns of a possible “spillover dangers" on other laws touching on free speech, whichever way the ...

  • WATCH: Biden delivers remarks about the 235 judicial confirmations made during his term

    WATCH: Biden delivers remarks about the 235 judicial confirmations made during his term

    Jan 02, 2025 06:53 PM EDT

    ... never thought we'd be talking about this, defending constitutional liberties, replacing and respecting the idea precedent matters," he added. The 235 confirmed judges include Ketanji Brown Jackson, who made history as the first Black woman to be confirmed to the Supreme Court and more Black women to the federal ...

  • Senate confirms 235th federal judge under Biden's presidency, beating Trump's first-term tally

    Senate confirms 235th federal judge under Biden's presidency, beating Trump's first-term tally

    Dec 21, 2024 01:03 AM EDT

    ... thirds of Biden's appointees are women and a solid majority of appointees are people of color. The most notable appointee was Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first African American woman to serve on the nation's highest court. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TGl1WfViW4 “Prior to ...

  • Supreme Court rejects final request to halt execution of Marcellus Williams

    Supreme Court rejects final request to halt execution of Marcellus Williams

    Sep 24, 2024 10:23 PM EDT

    ... last-ditch request to intervene on his behalf. The justices rejected two separate appeals to spare Marcellus Williams’ life, over the objection of Liberal Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, a day after the Missouri Supreme Court and Republican Gov. Mike Parson declined to step in on ...

  • September 3, 2024 - PBS News Hour full episode

    September 3, 2024 - PBS News Hour full episode

    Sep 03, 2024 11:29 PM EDT

    Tuesday on the News Hour, Ukraine renews its plea for long-range weapons from the U.S. after two Russian missile strikes kill dozens. Geoff Bennett sits down with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to discuss her memoir detailing her journey to become the first Black woman on the Supreme Court ...

  • WATCH: Latino civil rights organization UnidosUS holds conference in Las Vegas

    WATCH: Latino civil rights organization UnidosUS holds conference in Las Vegas

    Jul 17, 2024 03:10 PM EDT

    ... of the United States,” Biden said of Vice President Kamala Harris. He added that she “could be president.” Biden also noted his appointment of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman to serve on U.S. Supreme Court and his service as vice president under Barack Obama, the ...