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Ketanji Brown Jackson is not holding back against Trump or her fellow justices
The vast Trump litigation, sure to define the Supreme Court over the next four years, has already exposed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s resistance.
She speaks up, wields her pen as a dagger, and doesn’t care if she goes it alone.
In a case this week, she condemned the Trump administration’s efforts to “whisk people away to a notoriously brutal, foreign-run prison,” adding, “For lovers of liberty, this should be quite concerning.” A few days earlier, she derided the Department of Education’s “robotic rollout” of a policy cancelling teacher grants and its “highly questionable behavior.”
As she has skewered the Trump team, she has criticized the conservative Supreme Court majority that sides with it, referring this week to her colleagues’ “fly-by-night approach.”
Since her 2022 appointment by President Joe Biden, Jackson has intentionally laid down markers and asserted her independence. Of the three justices on the left wing, she is the most loquacious during oral arguments and the least likely to try to steer the give-and-take toward some middle-ground consensus. Rather than put her energies toward internal persuasion among colleagues, Jackson appears to be addressing audiences beyond the bench.
She speaks up, wields her pen as a dagger, and doesn’t care if she goes it alone.
In a case this week, she condemned the Trump administration’s efforts to “whisk people away to a notoriously brutal, foreign-run prison,” adding, “For lovers of liberty, this should be quite concerning.” A few days earlier, she derided the Department of Education’s “robotic rollout” of a policy cancelling teacher grants and its “highly questionable behavior.”
As she has skewered the Trump team, she has criticized the conservative Supreme Court majority that sides with it, referring this week to her colleagues’ “fly-by-night approach.”
Since her 2022 appointment by President Joe Biden, Jackson has intentionally laid down markers and asserted her independence. Of the three justices on the left wing, she is the most loquacious during oral arguments and the least likely to try to steer the give-and-take toward some middle-ground consensus. Rather than put her energies toward internal persuasion among colleagues, Jackson appears to be addressing audiences beyond the bench.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ketanji-brown-jackson-not-holding-080035459.html
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truth Justice Jackson, to that incompetent loyalist power. 
