• Biden announces diverse first slate of judicial nominees

    Biden announces diverse first slate of judicial nominees

    Mar 30, 2021 06:24 PM EDT

    ... nominated to the federal courts of appeals, a pathway to the Supreme Court. The most prominent of the three is U.S. District Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, whom Biden says he will nominate to the seat left vacant on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C ...

  • Judge says ex-White House counsel Don McGahn must appear before Congress

    Judge says ex-White House counsel Don McGahn must appear before Congress

    Nov 25, 2019 11:15 PM EDT

    ... outcome could lead to renewed efforts by House Democrats to compel testimony from other high-ranking officials, including former national security adviser John Bolton. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson ruled Monday in a lawsuit filed by the House Judiciary Committee. McGahn was a star witness in special counsel Robert Mueller’s ...

  • Plea deal reached for man who fired shots inside DC pizzeria

    Plea deal reached for man who fired shots inside DC pizzeria

    Mar 15, 2017 09:27 PM EDT

    ... Jahn, and the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington declined comment. After lawyers asked for more time to complete paperwork, U.S. District Judge Ketanji B. Jackson scheduled a plea hearing for March 24. Authorities say Welch caused panic by firing multiple shots inside the Comet Ping Pong restaurant ...

  • Obama signals Supreme Court announcement could come soon

    Obama signals Supreme Court announcement could come soon

    Mar 09, 2016 11:48 PM EDT

    ... the District of Columbia Circuit. Merrick Garland, chief judge on the same court. Judge Paul Watford of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Ketanji Brown Jackson, a district court judge in Washington, is also under consideration, although a less likely option, said the source, who was not authorized ...

  • Supreme Court allows Trump to strip humanitarian parole of 500,000 people from 4 countries

    Supreme Court allows Trump to strip humanitarian parole of 500,000 people from 4 countries

    May 30, 2025 02:43 PM EDT

    ... administration filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court after a federal judge in Boston blocked the administration’s push to end the program. Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson wrote in dissent that the effect of the court’s order is “to have the lives of half a million migrants unravel ...

  • Supreme Court weakens federal regulators, overturning decades-old Chevron decision in victory for business interests

    Supreme Court weakens federal regulators, overturning decades-old Chevron decision in victory for business interests

    Jun 28, 2024 03:04 PM EDT

    ... in the lower courts, which relied on the Chevron decision to sustain the regulation. The justices heard two cases on the same issue because Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson was recused from the New Jersey case. She took part in it at an earlier stage when she was an appeals court ...

  • Biden's first 2 years in office, by the numbers

    Biden's first 2 years in office, by the numbers

    Jan 20, 2023 09:14 PM EDT

    ... at the border 1.66 million times. 97 Biden won Senate confirmation for 97 of his picks to the federal bench, including Supreme Court Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson, during the first two years of his presidency. Biden has outpaced his two immediate predecessors. 89 The president has granted nine pardons ...

  • 'Pizzagate' gunman in D.C. sentenced to four years in prison

    'Pizzagate' gunman in D.C. sentenced to four years in prison

    Jun 22, 2017 05:56 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON — A North Carolina man who fired an assault rifle inside a District of Columbia restaurant during his investigation of a conspiracy theory dubbed "pizzagate" was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison. U.S. District Judge Kentanji B. Jackson said that while no one was injured when Edgar Maddison ...