• WATCH: Biden continues to call for calm, but says he won't 'stop telling the truth' in campaign return

    WATCH: Biden continues to call for calm, but says he won't 'stop telling the truth' in campaign return

    Jul 16, 2024 02:33 PM EDT

    ... referenced Barack Obama as the nation’s first Black president, and his own appointment to the Supreme Court of its first Black and female justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson. Biden's trip comes as Democrats have been engaged in a weeks-long crisis of confidence over his candidacy after his devastating ...

  • Reviewing consequential and controversial decisions from the Supreme Court

    Reviewing consequential and controversial decisions from the Supreme Court

    Jul 04, 2024 10:40 PM EDT

    ... stronger language there. Joan Biskupic: Certainly stronger language, and it was escalating. It had been building on the part of Justices Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, our newest justice. The anger, the passion, and I felt like when I was hearing some of those earlier dissents, it revealed ...

  • 6 big takeaways from this historic Supreme Court term

    6 big takeaways from this historic Supreme Court term

    Jul 02, 2024 04:39 PM EDT

    ... justices this term, a pattern seen more recently continues to hold. The justices’ rates of agreement fall along these lines:Justices Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson on the left Justices Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch on the right Chief Justice Roberts joining Justices Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh ...

  • What does the Supreme Court immunity ruling mean for Trump? 6 questions answered

    What does the Supreme Court immunity ruling mean for Trump? 6 questions answered

    Jul 01, 2024 09:01 PM EDT

    ... fails, however, he must stand trial.” What was the dissent? The Supreme Court’s decision fell along ideological lines. Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson all dissented from the conservative majority. Sotomayor wrote in her dissent that the court’s decision to grant former president criminal immunity ...

  • Breaking down Supreme Court decisions on Jan. 6 cases, homeless camps and agency power

    Breaking down Supreme Court decisions on Jan. 6 cases, homeless camps and agency power

    Jun 28, 2024 10:55 PM EDT

    Chief Justice John Roberts said in the majority opinion that the way the Justice Department is using the law criminalizes a broad swathe of prosaic conduct, exposing activists and lobbyists to decades in prison. It was a 6-3 decision, but not ideological. Ketanji Brown Jackson was in the majority ...

  • Conservative Supreme Court majority takes aim at 'administrative state' in latest rulings

    Conservative Supreme Court majority takes aim at 'administrative state' in latest rulings

    Jun 27, 2024 10:55 PM EDT

    ... that they could have decided the case now and they would have upheld the Idaho law. The three liberal justices, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, all sided with the Biden administration and indicated that they would overturn the Idaho law. And, in fact, Justice Jackson said the ...

  • Read the Supreme Court ruling on emergency abortions in Idaho

    Read the Supreme Court ruling on emergency abortions in Idaho

    Jun 27, 2024 03:42 PM EDT

    ... matter of medical reality, such cases exist." "This months-long catastrophe was completely unnecessary. More to the point, it directly violated federal law," wrote Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in a separate opinion. LISTEN: Supreme Court hears arguments on Idaho abortion ban Justice Samuel Alito's dissent criticized the majority for ...

  • How a draft opinion on Idaho's abortion ban was mistakenly posted by the Supreme Court

    How a draft opinion on Idaho's abortion ban was mistakenly posted by the Supreme Court

    Jun 26, 2024 10:55 PM EDT

    ... a 6-3 decision. The three most conservative justices, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch, all dissented. And one of the liberal justices, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, had a little bit of a dissent. She said she thought the court ought to go ahead and decide this now. She ...

  • Supreme Court overturns ex-mayor's bribery conviction, making it harder to prosecute public corruption law

    Supreme Court overturns ex-mayor's bribery conviction, making it harder to prosecute public corruption law

    Jun 26, 2024 02:56 PM EDT

    ... but it doesn't violate the law Snyder was charged with breaking, he said. In a sharply worded dissent joined by her liberal colleagues, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said that that reading ignores the plain text of the law. She said Snyder's argument was an "absurd" reading of the ...

  • News Wrap: Biden apologizes to Zelenskyy for delay in Ukraine aid

    News Wrap: Biden apologizes to Zelenskyy for delay in Ukraine aid

    Jun 07, 2024 10:55 PM EDT

    The Bali trip was part of a ProPublica report last year that led to renewed focus on the court's ethics. Eight of the nine justices provided new disclosures, including Ketanji Brown Jackson, who received $900,000 for her upcoming memoir and Beyonce tickets gifted by the singer herself. Former ...