• 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 ...

  • Biden’s judicial nominations have set records for diversity, but several remain unconfirmed

    Biden’s judicial nominations have set records for diversity, but several remain unconfirmed

    Dec 13, 2022 06:43 PM EDT

    ... judges, more than doubling the previous total number of Black women to serve on the country’s second-highest courts. Most notably, Biden appointed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to join the U.S. Supreme Court. As this year’s legislative session comes to an end, 46 ...

  • LISTEN: Supreme Court hears arguments on website designer refusing services for same-sex couple

    LISTEN: Supreme Court hears arguments on website designer refusing services for same-sex couple

    Dec 05, 2022 02:40 PM EDT

    ... for what a business might do without violating state anti-discrimination laws was a big question in Monday's arguments at the high court. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asked whether a photography store in a shopping mall could refuse to take pictures of Black people on Santa's lap. “Their ...

  • Warnock and Walker's Georgia Senate race goes into overtime as runoff begins

    Warnock and Walker's Georgia Senate race goes into overtime as runoff begins

    Nov 11, 2022 07:59 PM EDT

    ... Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff and links it to Democratic accomplishments, from the COVID-19 pandemic relief package to the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman on the nation's highest judicial body.Biden's approval ratings nationally hover in the low 40s ...

  • Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster merger blocked by federal judge

    Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster merger blocked by federal judge

    Nov 01, 2022 05:04 PM EDT

    ... behalf of our many magnificent authors.” Pan, meanwhile, has since been appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, replacing Ketanji Brown Jackson after she was nominated by Biden and approved by the Senate for the Supreme Court. Associated Press writer Marcy Gordon in Washington ...

  • Supreme Court hears arguments in cases that could end affirmative action

    Supreme Court hears arguments in cases that could end affirmative action

    Oct 31, 2022 10:55 PM EDT

    Ketanji Brown Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice: You keep saying we object to the use of race standing alone. But as I read the record and understand their process, it's never standing alone, that it's in the context of all of the other factors. There are ...