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As the nation's highest court considered former President Donald Trump's claims of immunity from prosecution, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson questioned Trump attorney D. John Sauer's underlying assumption that official acts by a sitting president are immune from criminal prosecution while private acts are not. LISTEN ...
... States. And I will say it wasn't just one side of the ideological spectrum. The majority of the justices, with the exception of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, really made that point. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson appeared sort of more convinced by the NLRB's case that Congress sort of ...
... seek restraining orders, including showing it was likely to prevail in the administrative case and that employees would suffer irreparable harm without an injunction. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson appeared to agree with the NLRB's argument that Congress meant for the agency to operate under a different standard. She noted ...
... of the highly technical nature of reviewing drug data and research, courts have long deferred to FDA’s scientific judgements on safety and effectiveness. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson pressed Hawley on the legal basis for second-guessing the agency’s regulators. “So what deference do we owe them at all ...
Justice Jackson took issue with this, and she felt that the challengers were proposing a very unequal remedy. Let's listen to what she said. Ketanji Brown Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice: So what they're asking for here is that, in order to prevent them from possibly ...
The Supreme Court's majority did not write a detailed opinion in the case, as is typical in emergency appeals. But the decision to let the law go into effect drew dissents from liberal justices Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor. “The Court gives a green light to ...
... and other infrastructure as well as spending to boost America's semiconductor industry. The Senate confirmed Biden's nominee to the Supreme Court and made Ketanji Brown Jackson the first Black woman to become a justice. The U.S. emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic in an economic boom with ...
... control air pollution don't change based on the number of states subject to the rule. “The requirements are exactly the same,'' he said. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson questioned why the Supreme Court was hearing the case before the other legal challenges were completed. A lawyer for industry groups challenging ...
William Brangham: The court took up this case on what's known as its emergency docket. And several of the justices today, including Ketanji Brown Jackson, seemed to take issue with that, asking why this was so urgent. We talked with our Supreme Court analyst, Marcia Coyle, about this earlier ...
This might be the one and only time we get a unanimous decision, especially when we think about the fact that this is a 6-3 conservative supermajority, where the pendulum swings from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson all the way to the six conservatives on the far right. And yet ...
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