Two trends have emerged at the Supreme Court in recent weeks: President Donald Trump is on a winning streak and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the court’s junior-most justice, is having none of it.
— CNN (@cnn.com) July 9, 2025 at 4:24 AM
And I believe she will be a shining star in the history books, quite unlike current Chief ‘Just Us’ Roberts…
… That dynamic was on full display yet again Tuesday as the court handed down a significant – if temporary – decision allowing the White House to move forward with plans to dramatically reduce the size of the federal government. Jackson penned a solo dissent and the justice, who recently took up boxing as a way to relieve stress off the bench, pulled no punches.
“For some reason, this court sees fit to step in now and release the president’s wrecking ball at the outset of this litigation,” Jackson wrote. “In my view, this decision is not only truly unfortunate but also hubristic and senseless.”
Jackson’s dissent was the latest striking rebuke of a court she has served on since 2022, when President Joe Biden named her to succeed Justice Stephen Breyer. Her predecessor, for whom she once clerked, had developed a reputation during nearly 28 years on the court of attempting to reach common ground with the conservative bloc.
But in both oral arguments and increasingly in her dissents, Jackson – at 54, one of the youngest justices – has stood out as a jurist who is unafraid to speak clearly about her concerns, dispensing with the kind of opaque prose that sometimes permeates legal writing.
And on Tuesday, it seemed clear, Jackson was concerned most of all with how the court is handling Trump.
“Today, the court exercises neither caution nor scrutiny, especially compared to the reasoned decisions issued by the courts below,” Jackson wrote. “With scant justification, the majority permits the immediate and potentially devastating aggrandizement of one branch (the executive) at the expense of another (Congress), and once again leaves the people paying the price for its reckless emergency-docket determinations.” …
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This is shameful and puts the services that Americans rely on at risk. Thank you Justice Jackson for another powerful dissent. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/u…
— Randi Weingarten (@rweingarten.bsky.social) July 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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"What one person (or President) might call bureaucratic bloat is a farmer’s prospect for a healthy crop, a coal miner’s chance to breathe free from black lung, or a preschooler’s opportunity to learn in a safe environment."
Justice Ketanji Jackson— Fal Rising (@falrising.bsky.social) July 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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What's up with Justice Jackson? She started making her mark and speaking out early, and some of her dissents are so pointed Kagan and Sotomayor don’t even join them. The far right is out for her, and even Republican justices are getting snarky.
So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵— Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (@whitehouse.senate.gov) July 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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