• LISTEN: Supreme Court hears religious freedom case for postal worker required to work on Sunday

    LISTEN: Supreme Court hears religious freedom case for postal worker required to work on Sunday

    Apr 18, 2023 02:11 PM EDT

    ... quit and sued for religious discrimination. During the arguments, the justices struggled with the question of when employers have to accommodate employees' religious needs. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the circumstances of each case matter and that "the answer is: it depends.” The case is the latest religious confrontation the ...

  • WATCH: Supreme Court Bar holds remembrance ceremony for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    WATCH: Supreme Court Bar holds remembrance ceremony for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    Mar 17, 2023 05:16 PM EDT

    ... four, perhaps even more women on the high court bench.” Ginsburg ultimately served with two other women: Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Elena Kagan. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joined the court last year, giving the court four women for the first time. Speakers remembered in particular the 1996 majority opinion ...

  • Supreme Court case could roll back legal immunity for social media companies

    Supreme Court case could roll back legal immunity for social media companies

    Feb 21, 2023 11:35 PM EDT

    This is Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Ketanji Brown Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice: Isn't it true that statute had a more narrow scope of immunity than is -- than courts have ultimately interpreted it to have and that what YouTube is arguing here today? The question today is ...

  • LISTEN: Supreme Court hears case on deaf student and assistance in public schools

    LISTEN: Supreme Court hears case on deaf student and assistance in public schools

    Jan 18, 2023 03:06 PM EDT

    ... waste time, money and administrative resources” to preserve their other claims, they said. The Biden administration also urged the court to side with Perez.Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was among the justices who seemed inclined to agree with Perez. The liberal justice said it was her understanding that “Congress thought ...

  • WATCH: President Biden delivers sermon at Martin Luther King Jr.'s church

    WATCH: President Biden delivers sermon at Martin Luther King Jr.'s church

    Jan 15, 2023 03:51 PM EDT

    ... offenses, scrapping a policy widely seen as racist. The administration also highlights Biden's work to diversify the federal judiciary, including his appointment of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court and the confirmation of 11 Black women judges to federal appeals ...

  • LISTEN: Supreme Court debates limits on union tactics in spoiled concrete case

    LISTEN: Supreme Court debates limits on union tactics in spoiled concrete case

    Jan 10, 2023 03:06 PM EDT

    ... Labor Relations Board finds the union's actions weren't protected by federal law.The court's three liberal justices — Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson — each suggested some sympathy for the argument that the NLRB should get the case first. The board has seen thousands of these ...

  • Why it's taking longer for the Supreme Court to hear oral arguments

    Why it's taking longer for the Supreme Court to hear oral arguments

    Jan 02, 2023 06:55 PM EDT

    ... 13 minutes. Jay said his sense is that the justices seem more comfortable with the format this term and that the questions are longer. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who replaced retiring Justice Stephen Breyer, is also a "considerably more active questioner" than her predecessor, Jay said. According to Adam Feldman ...

  • The highs and lows that defined the news of 2022

    The highs and lows that defined the news of 2022

    Dec 31, 2022 10:30 PM EDT

    ... now illegal in 13 of them. When the Supreme Court began its session in October, for the first time, there was a Black female justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson. In June, a committee launched hearings into the January 6 attack on the Capitol. Unidentified Female:  They`re making the case that ...

  • Biden outpaces predecessors with diverse judicial nominees

    Biden outpaces predecessors with diverse judicial nominees

    Dec 29, 2022 11:02 PM EDT

    ... in their presidencies, according to the White House and the office of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. Among them: Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, that court's first Black woman, 28 circuit court judges and 68 district court judges. Three out of every four judges tapped ...

  • Supreme Court keeps pandemic-era immigration limits in place indefinitely

    Supreme Court keeps pandemic-era immigration limits in place indefinitely

    Dec 27, 2022 09:31 PM EDT

    ... and — even if they hadn’t waited so long — that they don’t have sufficient standing to intervene. In the dissent, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Ketanji Brown Jackson said that even if the court were to find the states have the right to intervene and Title 42 was lawfully adopted ...