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  • Supreme Court allows DOGE team to access Social Security systems

    Supreme Court allows DOGE team to access Social Security systems

    Jun 06, 2025 08:47 PM EDT

    WATCH: Elon Musk leaves White House position after overseeing slashing of jobs and agencies Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the court's action creates “grave privacy risks” for millions of Americans by giving “unfettered data access to DOGE regardless — despite its failure to show any need or any interest in ...

  • Supreme Court sides with Ohio woman in making it easier to claim 'reverse' workplace discrimination

    Supreme Court sides with Ohio woman in making it easier to claim 'reverse' workplace discrimination

    Jun 05, 2025 02:20 PM EDT

    ... had set a higher bar when members of a majority group, including those who are white and heterosexual, sue for discrimination under federal law. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote for the court that federal civil rights law draws no distinction between members of majority and minority groups. “By establishing the ...

  • Supreme Court hears Trump’s challenge to birthright citizenship and judicial constraints

    Supreme Court hears Trump’s challenge to birthright citizenship and judicial constraints

    May 15, 2025 10:55 PM EDT

    ... the scope of nationwide injunctions, it could effectively permit the administration to carry out unlawful actions while leaving individuals without meaningful recourse. Take a listen. Ketanji Brown Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice: The real concern, I think, is that your argument seems to turn our justice system, in ...

  • Brooks and Capehart on Pope Leo XIV's potential impact on U.S. culture and politics

    Brooks and Capehart on Pope Leo XIV's potential impact on U.S. culture and politics

    May 09, 2025 10:30 PM EDT

    ... time that remains, let's talk about these public remarks from the Supreme Court justices defending the role of the judiciary. First, we have Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. She warned that attacks on judges undermine democracy. She says: "Across the nation, judges are facing increased threats of not only physical ...

  • WATCH: 'Judicial independence is crucial,' Chief Justice Roberts says

    WATCH: 'Judicial independence is crucial,' Chief Justice Roberts says

    May 08, 2025 02:16 PM EDT

    ... Roberts also said he has no plans to retire as he nears the 20th anniversary of his confirmation to the nation's highest court. His appearance in the city where he was born followed — by less than a week — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's forceful condemnation of attacks on judges.

  • 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 ...

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