Posted on 07/09/2025 5:31:06 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the sole dissenter in a key Supreme Court decision favoring President Trump, prompting questions about a growing rift with her liberal colleagues.
Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson appears to be increasingly isolated among her colleagues, including her fellow liberal justices, following a recent decision that handed a legal victory to President Donald Trump.
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley observed on Wednesday that Justice Jackson was the sole dissenter in an 8-1 ruling that allows Trump to proceed with plans to potentially reduce the federal workforce.
The case centered on a lower court’s injunction that had blocked Trump’s executive order directing agencies to prepare for “large-scale reductions” of staff. The Supreme Court’s majority lifted that injunction, with Justice Jackson being the only justice to side with the lower court’s block.
In her lone dissent, Justice Jackson lambasted the majority’s decision as “hubristic and senseless,” criticizing the Court for “releasing the president’s wrecking ball” on the federal bureaucracy. She argued that the Court was prematurely intervening in the litigation.
However, Turley highlighted a significant development: Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, often considered reliably liberal votes, did not join Jackson’s dissent in this case. Justice Sotomayor, who concurred with the majority, penned a separate opinion noting that Trump’s executive order merely directed agencies to plan for downsizing, a move she deemed “consistent with applicable law.” This stands in stark contrast to Jackson’s strong objection.
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She stands alone because she’s a moron.
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Is that where you learned what a woman is?
A nothing AA Pavement Ape
Now that, is an understatement of Biblical proportions. 🤪
what about the district dictator ruling?
the govt is not even allowed to make plans
without judicial approval
She doesn’t care about the law. She’s the black juror who votes innocent on a murder charge against a black she knows should get a guilty verdict.
Who needs competent clerks when she can just continue - - to use ChatGPT and AI to write her nonsense dissents?
thats what i was thinking
is her staff as incompetent as her?
i think that was true for kamala
We hang ‘em high west of the Pecos River. Been up a bit lately.
Actually, I thought the Jersey Lilly was a bit of a letdown, though I don’t know why I expected anything more. The Whitehead Museum was only slightly better.
love me some Whitesnake
She’s crazier than a sh^t house rat.
I was at Laughlin for 9 years, so I had a chance to see all those places. 🤣
You can get on the Supreme Court with a 3rd grade education?
When two lightweights such as Kagan and Soto think you are an idiot, it says a lot.
During Trump’s first term, we got a tour of the Supreme Court by the SC photographer. He shared that the newest justice is on the cafeteria committee and the newest justice at that time had an ice cream maker installed. Maybe she should focus her energies in improving the cafeteria.
“Jasmine Crockett has a cooler head...”
And thus the Democratic Party is not even toast - it is really burnt toast. With extra burnt edges. Like - not edible no matter how much butter you put on it.
Take her to the zoo.
They will eventually get the message to her, i.e. that is is not some ghetto town hall where she can say any random shit she wants with no consequences. Her liberal colleagues will let her know that the majority will take it out on all of them if she does not make reasonable dissenting arguments. There is a lot of give and take on the SCOTUS (often to our disappointment) but it is just how it works. The last thing the libs need is to polarize Barrett and Roberts.
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