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  • WATCH: Biden speaks on Supreme Court decision ending affirmative action in college admissions

    WATCH: Biden speaks on Supreme Court decision ending affirmative action in college admissions

    Jun 29, 2023 03:36 PM EDT

    ... to college and law school, took the unusual step of reading a summary of their opinions aloud in the courtroom. In a separate dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson — the court's first Black female justice — called the decision "truly a tragedy for us all." Jackson, who sat out the Harvard ...

  • Supreme Court's conservative majority strikes down race-based affirmative action in university admissions

    Supreme Court's conservative majority strikes down race-based affirmative action in university admissions

    Jun 29, 2023 02:30 PM EDT

    ... back decades of precedent and momentous progress." Both Thomas and Sotomayor took the unusual step of reading a summary of their opinions aloud in the courtroom. In a separate dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson — the court's first Black female justice — called the decision "truly a tragedy for us all."

  • Supreme Court rejects legal theory that could have thrown 2024 election into disarray

    Supreme Court rejects legal theory that could have thrown 2024 election into disarray

    Jun 27, 2023 10:55 PM EDT

    ... v. Harper, which stems from a dispute in North Carolina. Roberts was joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Neal Katyal is the former acting U.S. solicitor general. He argued the case before the court and joins us now with ...

  • Supreme Court rules against man given 27 years in prison on gun charges

    Supreme Court rules against man given 27 years in prison on gun charges

    Jun 22, 2023 05:01 PM EDT

    ... run around” the 1996 law, known as AEDPA.In dissent, the three liberal justices wrote that the decision produces “bizarre outcomes” and “disturbing results.” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson noted that the ruling, coupled with other recent limits on appeals imposed by the court, have transformed “a statute that Congress designed ...

  • Supreme Court rules against Navajo Nation on water rights dispute

    Supreme Court rules against Navajo Nation on water rights dispute

    Jun 22, 2023 04:03 PM EDT

    ... intervene in cases that affect their claimed interests.” Gorsuch, a conservative, was joined by the court's three liberals: Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. WATCH: Major decisions expected from Supreme Court could reshape education and immigration policy During arguments in the case in March, Justice Samuel ...

  • Supreme Court rules for nursing home patient's family, declines to limit civil rights lawsuits against federal workers

    Supreme Court rules for nursing home patient's family, declines to limit civil rights lawsuits against federal workers

    Jun 08, 2023 10:51 PM EDT

    ... and local governments when their employees violate rights created by any federal statute. The court by a 7-2 vote reiterated that Thursday, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson writing that Section 1983 “can presumptively be used to enforce unambiguously conferred federal individual rights." Both liberal and conservative justices joined her ...

  • The life lessons commencement speakers have given this year's graduates

    The life lessons commencement speakers have given this year's graduates

    Jun 08, 2023 10:15 PM EDT

    ... hard, so that you can buy yourself the time to wander easy. Use whatever skills you have to carve out days of randomness and adventure. Ketanji Brown Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice: When you find yourself in unfamiliar situations, taking on new responsibilities, perhaps under challenging circumstances, find ...

  • Supreme Court rules against union in labor dispute, will 'erode' right to strike warns dissent

    Supreme Court rules against union in labor dispute, will 'erode' right to strike warns dissent

    Jun 01, 2023 04:57 PM EDT

    ... wet concrete. The decision united liberal and conservative justices in labor's latest loss at the high court. The lone dissenter in the case, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, said the ruling would hinder the development of labor law and "erode the right to strike." Justice Amy Coney Barrett, writing for ...

  • Supreme Court strips federal protections from some wetlands, boosts property rights

    Supreme Court strips federal protections from some wetlands, boosts property rights

    May 25, 2023 04:09 PM EDT

    ... had appointed “itself as the national decision-maker on environmental policy.” Kagan was joined in what she wrote by her liberal colleagues Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson. The Sacketts paid $23,000 for a 0.63-acre lot near Priest Lake in 2005 and started building a three-bedroom ...

  • Supreme Court to weigh key case on government's power to create regulations

    Supreme Court to weigh key case on government's power to create regulations

    May 01, 2023 06:03 PM EDT

    ... court as is its custom did not reveal the vote breakdown. One wrinkle in the current case is that only eight justices will participate. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is not taking part, presumably because she was on a panel of appellate judges that heard arguments in the case when it ...

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