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  • LISTEN: Supreme Court seems likely to rule narrowly in case over family wrongly raided by FBI

    LISTEN: Supreme Court seems likely to rule narrowly in case over family wrongly raided by FBI

    Apr 29, 2025 02:09 PM EDT

    ... Justice Neil Gorsuch asking incredulously, "No policy says, 'Don't break down the door of the wrong house? Don't traumatize its occupants?'"Still, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was among those who suggested there could be some situations where law enforcement decisions should be shielded from liability, though "perhaps not ...

  • Supreme Court hears major case on public school curriculum and parental rights

    Supreme Court hears major case on public school curriculum and parental rights

    Apr 22, 2025 10:40 PM EDT

    ... is a good message, but it's a message that a lot of people who hold on to traditional religious beliefs don't agree with. Ketanji Brown Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice: I guess I'm struggling to see how it burdens a parent's religious exercise if ...

  • WATCH: Senate Homeland Security votes on OPM leadership nominees Scott Kupor and Eric Ueland

    WATCH: Senate Homeland Security votes on OPM leadership nominees Scott Kupor and Eric Ueland

    Apr 09, 2025 02:33 PM EDT

    ... s order involved a technical legal assessment of the right, or standing, of several nonprofit associations to sue over the firings. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson said they would have kept the judge's order in place. It's the third time in less than a week that ...

  • Supreme Court blocks order that Trump administration to reinstate thousands of federal workers

    Supreme Court blocks order that Trump administration to reinstate thousands of federal workers

    Apr 08, 2025 04:35 PM EDT

    ... s order involved a technical legal assessment of the right, or standing, of several nonprofit associations to sue over the firings. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson said they would have kept the judge's order in place. It's the third time in less than a week that ...

  • Supreme Court lets Trump administration cut teacher-training money, for now

    Supreme Court lets Trump administration cut teacher-training money, for now

    Apr 04, 2025 10:41 PM EDT

    ... Nowhere in its papers does the Government defend the legality of canceling the education grants at issue here,” Kagan wrote. In a separate opinion, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote, “It is beyond puzzling that a majority of Justices conceive of the government’s application as an emergency.” The administration halted ...

  • LISTEN: Supreme Court hears arguments on nuclear storage and federal agency power

    LISTEN: Supreme Court hears arguments on nuclear storage and federal agency power

    Mar 05, 2025 02:58 PM EDT

    ... one or two locations, Stewart said, relying on arguments made by Interim Storage Partners LLC, the company with the Texas license. Sotomayor, along with Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan and Brett Kavanaugh, seemed most inclined to reverse the 5th circuit. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett ...

  • Supreme Court rules against drivers in case that could make civil rights claims harder

    Supreme Court rules against drivers in case that could make civil rights claims harder

    Feb 25, 2025 06:20 PM EDT

    ... injunction stage are only speculative, and apply to only a small number of cases, the majority found. The opinion was written by Chief Justice John Roberts, and joined by his five fellow conservatives as well as a liberal-leaning justice, Elena Kagan. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.

  • Supreme Court temporarily blocks Trump from firing head of whistleblower office

    Supreme Court temporarily blocks Trump from firing head of whistleblower office

    Feb 22, 2025 12:02 AM EDT

    ... that the order expires in just a few days. Conservative justices Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito sided with the administration. Liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson would have rejected the administration's request. The conservative-dominated court has previously taken a robust view of presidential power, including in ...

  • Supreme Court seems open to age checks for online porn, though some free-speech questions remain

    Supreme Court seems open to age checks for online porn, though some free-speech questions remain

    Jan 15, 2025 08:49 PM EDT

    ... that could run afoul of the First Amendment. “How far can a state go in terms of burdening adults showing how old they are?” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asked. Justice Elena Kagan raised the concerns of a possible “spillover dangers" on other laws touching on free speech, whichever way the ...

  • LISTEN: Supreme Court hears arguments on Texas law restricting access to porn websites

    LISTEN: Supreme Court hears arguments on Texas law restricting access to porn websites

    Jan 14, 2025 10:40 PM EDT

    ... that could run afoul of the First Amendment. “How far can a state go in terms of burdening adults showing how old they are?” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asked. Justice Elena Kagan raised the concerns of a possible “spillover dangers" on other laws touching on free speech, whichever way the ...

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