• 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 ...

  • WATCH: Biden, Harris launch Black voter outreach efforts with stop at Philadelphia school

    WATCH: Biden, Harris launch Black voter outreach efforts with stop at Philadelphia school

    May 29, 2024 04:38 PM EDT

    ... surged, and Biden's effort to cancel billions in student loan debt that has disproportionately impacted Black borrowers. Biden also points to his appointment of Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court and his pick of Harris as the first Black woman ...

  • Capehart and Johnson on how the Biden-Trump debates could shape the campaign season

    Capehart and Johnson on how the Biden-Trump debates could shape the campaign season

    May 17, 2024 10:30 PM EDT

    The other thing is, could you imagine what would have happened if that flag was flying like that on the property of Ruth Bader Ginsburg or Ketanji Brown Jackson, someone from the liberal wing on the bench of the Supreme Court? They would have been impeached. And so the idea ...

  • Supreme Court sides with music producer in copyright case over sample in Flo Rida hit

    Supreme Court sides with music producer in copyright case over sample in Flo Rida hit

    May 10, 2024 12:30 AM EDT

    ... the Supreme Court to decide. The opinion handed down Thursday was written by Justice Elena Kagan, and joined by her liberal colleagues Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson as well as conservative justices John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. “There is no time limit on monetary recovery. So ...

  • Analyzing the consequential Supreme Court term and its ideological divide

    Analyzing the consequential Supreme Court term and its ideological divide

    May 02, 2024 10:35 PM EDT

    ... on the left side. You have got someone who's very strategic in Justice Elena Kagan, one of President Obama appointees, and our newest justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, the only appointee of President Joe Biden at this point, who's more independent and consistently liberal, as opposed to Justice Kagan ...

  • Analyzing the Supreme Court hearing on Trump's presidential immunity claim

    Analyzing the Supreme Court hearing on Trump's presidential immunity claim

    Apr 25, 2024 10:55 PM EDT

    ... an appropriate way to challenge things through the courts with evidence. If you lose, you accept the results. That has been the nation's experience. Ketanji Brown Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice: You seem to be worried about the president being chilled. I think that we would have ...