• LISTEN: Supreme Court hears case on Cisco’s alleged role in China’s persecution of Falun Gong

    LISTEN: Supreme Court hears case on Cisco’s alleged role in China’s persecution of Falun Gong

    Apr 28, 2026 05:20 PM EDT

    ... sued Cisco, alleging the company tailored technology for Beijing that it knew would be used to track, detain and torture believers. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson seemed most willing to allow the lawsuit to continue. Cisco was a willing partner with the Chinese government, Sotomayor said. "It knew ...

  • LISTEN: Supreme Court considers case on Roundup weed killer cancer warning labels

    LISTEN: Supreme Court considers case on Roundup weed killer cancer warning labels

    Apr 27, 2026 02:22 PM EDT

    ... others have sued under. EPA reviews its labeling determinations every 15 years, which can be a relatively long period in terms of scientific advancement, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said. Chief Justice John Roberts questioned whether waiting for EPA review ties the hands of state courts. “Throughout that long process, in ...

  • News Wrap: Virginia voters approve new congressional map that could help Democrats

    News Wrap: Virginia voters approve new congressional map that could help Democrats

    Apr 22, 2026 10:45 PM EDT

    ... court ruling that had blocked his lawsuit due to a federal government protection during wartime. In a rare lineup, the court's liberal three justices, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan joined conservative Clarence Thomas in the decision to stop the war. The Trump administration is reportedly in ...

  • Supreme Court revives wounded veteran’s lawsuit against a contractor over suicide bombing

    Supreme Court revives wounded veteran’s lawsuit against a contractor over suicide bombing

    Apr 22, 2026 08:28 PM EDT

    ... out its duties in supervising Nayeb.Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the opinion, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Justices Samuel Alito, John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh dissented. Alito wrote that Hencely's lawsuit may intrude on the government's wartime ...

  • Justice Jackson calls out Supreme Court conservatives' pro-Trump emergency orders

    Justice Jackson calls out Supreme Court conservatives' pro-Trump emergency orders

    Apr 16, 2026 12:51 AM EDT

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has delivered a sustained attack on her conservative colleagues’ use of emergency orders to benefit the Trump administration, calling the orders “scratch-paper musings” that can “seem oblivious and thus ring hollow.” The court's newest justice, Jackson delivered a lengthy assessment ...

  • Analyzing the arguments as Supreme Court hears birthright citizenship case

    Analyzing the arguments as Supreme Court hears birthright citizenship case

    Apr 01, 2026 10:50 PM EDT

    ... or the Constitution in this case. Ali Rogin: Amanda, several justices asked about the real-world consequences of changing birthright citizenship. Here is what Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asked about it. Ketanji Brown Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice: How does this work? Are you suggesting that, when a ...

  • Live Updates: Supreme Court considers Trump's order on birthright citizenship

    Live Updates: Supreme Court considers Trump's order on birthright citizenship

    Apr 01, 2026 01:09 PM EDT

    ... justices who were born abroad. The current court is American from birth. Still, the citizenship issue hits close to home for some justices. Thomas and Ketanji Brown Jackson are descended from enslaved people who eventually had their citizenship established by the 14th Amendment. Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s parents were born ...

  • Supreme Court sides with therapist challenging Colorado ban on conversion therapy

    Supreme Court sides with therapist challenging Colorado ban on conversion therapy

    Mar 31, 2026 10:35 PM EDT

    ... Chiles was likely to win in some form. It was a little bit of a surprise that it wound up being 8-1, with justice Ketanji Brown Jackson being the only dissenter. Justice Elena Kagan and Justice Sonia Sotomayor joined the majority. Justice Kagan wrote a concurring opinion in which ...

  • LISTEN: Supreme Court considers constitutionality of Trump’s birthright citizenship order

    LISTEN: Supreme Court considers constitutionality of Trump’s birthright citizenship order

    Mar 30, 2026 06:08 PM EDT

    ... question after another. Justices asked about the legal basis for the order and voiced more practical concerns. “Is this happening in the delivery room?” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asked, drilling down into the logistics of how the government would actually figure out who’s entitled to citizenship and who’s ...

  • Supreme Court hears mail-in ballot case that could impact the midterms

    Supreme Court hears mail-in ballot case that could impact the midterms

    Mar 23, 2026 10:30 PM EDT

    ... have nothing more to look at than the phrase Election Day, I think this is the day in which everything is going to take place. Ketanji Brown Jackson, SCOTUS Associate Justice: This idea of the votes being cast by Election Day and counted after Election Day has been around, right ...