• A look at the legal and political fight over trans athletes as cases reach Supreme Court

    A look at the legal and political fight over trans athletes as cases reach Supreme Court

    Jan 13, 2026 11:40 PM EDT

    ... really unique context to establish a sweeping principle that the government can freely discriminate against transgender people. Liz Landers: It's a point that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson also made in arguments today. Ketanji Brown Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice: I guess I'm struggling to understand how ...

  • LISTEN: Supreme Court hears Trump v. Slaughter, seems likely to back Trump's power to fire independent agency board members

    LISTEN: Supreme Court hears Trump v. Slaughter, seems likely to back Trump's power to fire independent agency board members

    Dec 08, 2025 12:58 AM EDT

    ... Liberal justices warned that the decision sought by the administration would concentrate vast power in the president's hands, robbing the agencies of expertise. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the president would be able to “fire all the scientists and the doctors and the economists and the PhDs and replace ...

  • Trump administration renews Supreme Court appeal to keep full SNAP payments frozen

    Trump administration renews Supreme Court appeal to keep full SNAP payments frozen

    Nov 10, 2025 04:20 PM EDT

    ... to SNAP recipients. Millions of people in at least a dozen states — all with Democratic governors — received the full amount to buy groceries before Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson put McConnell’s order on hold Friday night, pending further deliberation by an appeals court. Delays cause complications for some beneficiaries Millions ...

  • Longest shutdown on record disrupts air travel and food assistance for Americans

    Longest shutdown on record disrupts air travel and food assistance for Americans

    Nov 08, 2025 10:50 PM EDT

    ... will act quickly on your request to put the ruling on hold while you appeal. Shortly before 9:30 at 9:17 last night, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued that administrative stay. Justice Jackson is what's known as the circuit justice for the First Circuit, which means that all ...

  • Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP food aid payments

    Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP food aid payments

    Nov 08, 2025 03:13 AM EDT

    ... instead allow it to continue with planned partial SNAP payments for the month. After a Boston appeals court declined to immediately intervene, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued an order late Friday pausing the requirement to distribute full SNAP payments until the appeals court rules on whether to issue ...

  • 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 ...