• LISTEN: Supreme Court conservatives raise doubts on affirmative action for college admissions

    LISTEN: Supreme Court conservatives raise doubts on affirmative action for college admissions

    Oct 31, 2022 12:21 AM EDT

    ... Sonia Sotomayor, the court's first Hispanic justice, rejected that comparison saying what universities are doing is looking at students as a whole. Likewise, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the court's newest justice and its first Black woman, also said that race was being used at the University of North ...

  • LISTEN: Supreme Court hears arguments over copyright of an Andy Warhol image of musician Prince

    LISTEN: Supreme Court hears arguments over copyright of an Andy Warhol image of musician Prince

    Oct 12, 2022 02:08 PM EDT

    ... whether something is “fair use” and to send the case back to lower courts for further review. “Why wouldn't we send it back,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asked at one point. A range of high-profile organizations stressed the importance of the decision, including The Motion Picture Association, prominent ...

  • LISTEN: Supreme Court hears arguments on animal welfare in pork industry and death penalty case

    LISTEN: Supreme Court hears arguments on animal welfare in pork industry and death penalty case

    Oct 11, 2022 01:48 PM EDT

    ... in the Midwest and North Carolina. The vast majority of sows, meanwhile, aren't raised under conditions that would meet Proposition 12's standards. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson summed up the issue by saying: "To what extent does California get to control what Iowa does with respect to the housing ...

  • Supreme Court hears redistricting cases with major implications for future elections

    Supreme Court hears redistricting cases with major implications for future elections

    Oct 04, 2022 10:45 PM EDT

    Ketanji Brown Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice: You have enough people who are in marginalized groups that another district is possible. People are being segregated, in effect, in effect, as Justice Kagan, pointed out, right? We're not talking about intent. We're talking about the effect. Samuel ...

  • Justices mull latest challenge to landmark voting rights law

    Justices mull latest challenge to landmark voting rights law

    Oct 04, 2022 07:04 PM EDT

    Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the court's first Hispanic justice, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the court's first Black female justice who was hearing her second day of arguments, were similarly unsympathetic to Alabama's arguments. Jackson said “what we all want” is for people to “spread out and live ...

  • LISTEN: Supreme Court hears arguments on Alabama election redistricting

    LISTEN: Supreme Court hears arguments on Alabama election redistricting

    Oct 04, 2022 01:32 PM EDT

    ... approach to redistricting and should make it harder for people claiming racial discrimination in voting to clear an early legal hurdle. Against pushback from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and the other liberal justices, Justice Samuel Alito said it's too easy for people suing over discrimination in redistricting to win ...

  • Supreme Court begins new term as public's trust hits historic low

    Supreme Court begins new term as public's trust hits historic low

    Oct 03, 2022 10:35 PM EDT

    But if I could go back to, though, to the question of the jurisdiction... Ketanji Brown Jackson: But you keep talking about notice and fair notice and property owners not being able to tell or know about this issue. Judy Woodruff: So, Marcia, not being shy. She's right in ...

  • Analysis: 3 things to watch in the new Supreme Court term

    Analysis: 3 things to watch in the new Supreme Court term

    Oct 03, 2022 09:20 PM EDT

    The U.S. Supreme Court begins a new term Monday with cases likely to provoke controversy and increased public skepticism about the institution's legitimacy. The justices — including new member Ketanji Brown Jackson — take their seats on the courtroom's curved mahogany bench following an extraordinary term in which the ...

  • LISTEN: Supreme Court hears arguments on whether certain wetlands are protected by the EPA

    LISTEN: Supreme Court hears arguments on whether certain wetlands are protected by the EPA

    Oct 03, 2022 02:02 PM EDT

    ... in a case that pits environmental protections against property rights. Listen to the arguments in the player above. The new member of the court, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, wasted no time joining the lively give-and-take, asking questions throughout nearly two hours of arguments in the dispute over the ...

  • News Wrap: European Union inflation hits 10 percent, Cubans protest lingering power outage

    News Wrap: European Union inflation hits 10 percent, Cubans protest lingering power outage

    Sep 30, 2022 10:45 PM EDT

    ... more. That is their worst September in 20 years. The Nasdaq slid 10.5 percent. That's the most in September of 2008. And Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson had her ceremonial induction today, as the first Black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court. President Biden and Vice President Harris ...