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  • Divided Supreme Court lifts stay on a Texas law giving police broad powers to arrest migrants

    Divided Supreme Court lifts stay on a Texas law giving police broad powers to arrest migrants

    Mar 19, 2024 06:32 PM EDT

    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 ...

  • Biden clinches 2024 Democratic nomination

    Biden clinches 2024 Democratic nomination

    Mar 12, 2024 11:27 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • Supreme Court seems skeptical of EPA's 'good neighbor' rule on power plant pollution

    Supreme Court seems skeptical of EPA's 'good neighbor' rule on power plant pollution

    Feb 22, 2024 01:51 AM EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • Supreme Court hears challenge to rule reducing pollution drifting between states

    Supreme Court hears challenge to rule reducing pollution drifting between states

    Feb 21, 2024 11:50 PM EDT

    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 ...

  • Brooks and Capehart on voters' concerns about Biden's age, Trump's ballot eligibility

    Brooks and Capehart on voters' concerns about Biden's age, Trump's ballot eligibility

    Feb 09, 2024 11:25 PM EDT

    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 ...

  • What Supreme Court justices signaled in hearing on removing Trump from Colorado ballot

    What Supreme Court justices signaled in hearing on removing Trump from Colorado ballot

    Feb 08, 2024 11:50 PM EDT

    Ketanji Brown Jackson: Yes, but doesn't that at least suggest ambiguity? And this sort of ties into Justice Kavanaugh's point. In other words, we had a person right there at the time saying what I'm saying. The language here doesn't seem to include president. Why is ...

  • What we learned from the landmark Supreme Court arguments about Trump and the insurrection clause

    What we learned from the landmark Supreme Court arguments about Trump and the insurrection clause

    Feb 08, 2024 09:48 PM EDT

    ... a pretty daunting consequence.” Justice Samuel Alito noted that states could have different standards for what constituted an insurrection and different burdens of proof. How would the court review the challenges likely to come? And Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asked why the framers would use a structure that creates disunity.

  • U.S. at front of death penalty debate after Alabama execution uses nitrogen gas, the first ever

    U.S. at front of death penalty debate after Alabama execution uses nitrogen gas, the first ever

    Jan 26, 2024 03:33 PM EDT

    Justice Elena Kagan wrote a separate dissent and was joined by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. In his final hours, Smith met with family members and his spiritual adviser, according to a prison spokesperson. Smith ate a last meal of T-bone steak, hash browns, toast and eggs slathered in A1 ...

  • Alabama carries out country's 1st execution by nitrogen gas after Supreme Court ruled it could proceed

    Alabama carries out country's 1st execution by nitrogen gas after Supreme Court ruled it could proceed

    Jan 26, 2024 01:01 AM EDT

    ... risk of pain,” Sotomayor wrote. “I sincerely hope that he is not proven correct a second time.” Justice Elena Kagan wrote a separate dissent and was joined by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. In his final hours, Smith met with family members and his spiritual adviser, according to a prison spokesperson.

  • Divided Supreme Court allows federal agents to cut razor wire installed by Texas on U.S.-Mexico border as lawsuit continues

    Divided Supreme Court allows federal agents to cut razor wire installed by Texas on U.S.-Mexico border as lawsuit continues

    Jan 22, 2024 08:51 PM EDT

    ... the wire to help groups crossing illegally through the river before taking them in for processing.Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor sided with the administration. Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas voted with Texas ...

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