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  • 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 ...

  • News Wrap: Netanyahu visits U.S. leaders as Trump administration pushes for Gaza ceasefire

    News Wrap: Netanyahu visits U.S. leaders as Trump administration pushes for Gaza ceasefire

    Jul 08, 2025 10:50 PM EDT

    ... The court said it was not weighing the validity of specific cuts and technically the measure is temporary while other legal challenges play out. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only dissenting vote, writing that the order promises -- quote -- "the dismantling of much of the federal government as Congress had ...

  • Supreme Court clears way for Trump to downsize the federal workforce

    Supreme Court clears way for Trump to downsize the federal workforce

    Jul 08, 2025 09:26 PM EDT

    ... cuts were in front of the justices, only an executive order issued by Trump and an administration directive for agencies to undertake job reductions. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only dissenting vote, accusing her colleagues of a “demonstrated enthusiasm for greenlighting this President’s legally dubious actions in an ...

  • Supreme Court clears way for states to deny Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood

    Supreme Court clears way for states to deny Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood

    Jun 26, 2025 10:45 PM EDT

    ... in this case, he said Congress was not clear. There's no clear and unambiguous right to sue for private plaintiffs. Geoff Bennett: Well, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in her dissent said that the ruling was the latest in a series of decisions that weakened civil rights protections and that ...

  • Supreme Court allows Trump to restart swift deportation of migrants to locations that are not their home countries

    Supreme Court allows Trump to restart swift deportation of migrants to locations that are not their home countries

    Jun 23, 2025 10:18 PM EDT

    ... law, free to deport anyone anywhere without notice or an opportunity to be heard,” she wrote in the dissent joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Attorneys for the migrants sent to South Sudan said they would continue to press their case in court. “The ramifications of Supreme ...

  • Supreme Court upholds Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors

    Supreme Court upholds Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors

    Jun 18, 2025 10:55 PM EDT

    ... And then she said, "I dissent," without including the respectfully that justices usually include. So it was something that she felt very strongly about. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joined all of her dissent. Justice Elena Kagan joined most of it. And her argument was really that the court got it ...

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