• Supreme Court lets Trump block transgender Americans from choosing passport sex markers

    Supreme Court lets Trump block transgender Americans from choosing passport sex markers

    Nov 06, 2025 09:17 PM EDT

    ... violence, harassment, and discrimination.” “This Court has once again paved the way for the immediate infliction of injury without adequate (or, really, any) justification,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote, saying the policy stemmed directly from Trump’s executive order that described transgender identity as “false” and “corrosive.” The State Department ...

  • 10 major moments from 50 years of PBS News

    10 major moments from 50 years of PBS News

    Oct 20, 2025 09:00 PM EDT

    ... MacNeil Report, a 30-minute show, launched a year later, in the fall of 1975. Other hearings and impeachments: The Jan. 6th Hearings (2022) Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Supreme Court confirmation hearings (2022) Judge Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court confirmation hearings (2020) President Donald Trump impeachment trial (2020) Judge Brett ...

  • What Supreme Court justices signaled in arguments over Colorado's conversion therapy ban

    What Supreme Court justices signaled in arguments over Colorado's conversion therapy ban

    Oct 07, 2025 10:40 PM EDT

    ... there was Justice Jackson, who wondered how much freedom counselors should have to express support for practices like conversion therapy under the First Amendment. JUDGE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON, Supreme Court Nominee: I understand if Ms. Chiles here were writing an article about conversion therapy or writing -- or giving a speech ...

  • Supreme Court allows Trump to strip protections from more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants

    Supreme Court allows Trump to strip protections from more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants

    Oct 03, 2025 10:20 PM EDT

    ... the first time, lawyers for the migrants told the court. “I view today's decision as yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote. “Because, respectfully, I cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous and harmful interference with cases pending in the lower courts while lives hang ...

  • Heritage Foundation's John Malcolm on its new originalist analysis of the Constitution

    Heritage Foundation's John Malcolm on its new originalist analysis of the Constitution

    Sep 18, 2025 10:25 PM EDT

    ... it's not just a conservative approach to analysis. I mean, of course, the Supreme Court now, they almost all profess to be originalists, including Ketanji Brown Jackson, who said that she is guided by originalism, which is a constraint on her authority, during her confirmation hearing. Elena Kagan famously ...

  • Supreme Court lets Trump cut $783 million of health research funding amid anti-DEI push

    Supreme Court lets Trump cut $783 million of health research funding amid anti-DEI push

    Aug 21, 2025 10:19 PM EDT

    ... already collected and ultimately harm the country’s potential for scientific breakthroughs by disrupting scientists’ work in the middle of their careers, they argued. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote a lengthy dissent in which she criticized both the outcome and her colleagues' willingness to continue allowing the administration to use ...

  • Republicans and independents have warmed on Supreme Court since 2022 abortion ruling, poll says

    Republicans and independents have warmed on Supreme Court since 2022 abortion ruling, poll says

    Jul 25, 2025 01:02 PM EDT

    ... lower courts, their rulings, and the law (as they interpret it) will surely hasten the downfall of our governing institutions, enabling our collective demise,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote when the court ruled on nationwide injunctions. The July AP-NORC poll found a growing similar sentiment. About 4 in 10 ...

  • Supreme Court allows Trump to fire 3 Democratic consumer product safety commissioners

    Supreme Court allows Trump to fire 3 Democratic consumer product safety commissioners

    Jul 23, 2025 09:45 PM EDT

    ... piece by piece by piece, from one branch of Government to another,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote for herself, as well as Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson. The commission helps protect consumers from dangerous products by issuing recalls, suing errant companies and more. The fired commissioners had been serving ...

  • Supreme Court gives greenlight for Trump to dismantle Education Department, layoff 1,400 employees

    Supreme Court gives greenlight for Trump to dismantle Education Department, layoff 1,400 employees

    Jul 14, 2025 09:01 PM EDT

    ... and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary's duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it," Sotomayor wrote for herself and Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan. The secretary of education lauds the decision Education Secretary Linda McMahon said it's a "shame" it took the ...

  • Federal workers union says it will continue to fight firings after Supreme Court ruling

    Federal workers union says it will continue to fight firings after Supreme Court ruling

    Jul 10, 2025 10:40 PM EDT

    ... justices wrote that the court is not ruling on the future firings, but only on the president's order that agencies start planning them. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, writing sharply that the court is "green-lighting the president's legally dubious actions in an emergency posture." To discuss where ...