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  • 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 ...

  • LISTEN: Supreme Court hears case that could limit federal agencies from enforcing laws

    LISTEN: Supreme Court hears case that could limit federal agencies from enforcing laws

    Jan 17, 2024 02:39 PM EDT

    ... cases limiting regulation of air and water pollution are backing the fishermen as well. The justices are hearing two cases on the same issue. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is recused in one case, from New Jersey, because she took part in it at an earlier stage when she was an ...

  • LISTEN: Supreme Court hears arguments on legality of Purdue Pharma bankruptcy plan

    LISTEN: Supreme Court hears arguments on legality of Purdue Pharma bankruptcy plan

    Dec 01, 2023 10:58 PM EDT

    ... a powerful prescription painkiller. A lawyer for a victim who opposes the settlement calls the provision dealing with the Sacklers "special protection for billionaires.” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson seemed more inclined toward the opponents, saying the Sacklers' insistence on a shield against all lawsuits is “causing this problem.” By contrast ...

  • Biden announces 5 federal judicial nominees and stresses their diverse backgrounds

    Biden announces 5 federal judicial nominees and stresses their diverse backgrounds

    Nov 15, 2023 08:44 PM EDT

    ... by the Senate. Of those, the White House says that two-thirds are women and two-thirds are people of color, including Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the high court's first Black female justice. The White House says that it is just getting started and that more judicial ...

  • LISTEN: Supreme Court hears case about gerrymandering affecting Black voters in South Carolina

    LISTEN: Supreme Court hears case about gerrymandering affecting Black voters in South Carolina

    Oct 11, 2023 01:36 PM EDT

    Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, one of three liberals who sounded sympathetic to the challengers, noted that the old and new districts kept the Democratic-leaning Black voting age population at 17%, low enough to keep electing a Republican representative. “My understanding is that thousands were moved in and out and ...

  • New Wrap: New England braces for impact of Hurricane Lee

    New Wrap: New England braces for impact of Hurricane Lee

    Sep 15, 2023 10:46 PM EDT

    ... dynamite device exploded. The attack brought an outpouring of grief and shook the country's conscience. Today's remembrance service at the church featured Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court.Ketanji Brown Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice: The theft of ...

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