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Jackson Stands Alone: Is Liberal Support For Justice Waning After Trump Ruling?
Tampa Free Prese ^ | July 9, 2025 | Danielle Shockey

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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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; danielleshockey; ketanjibrownjackson; racenorming
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To: MinorityRepublican

She stands alone because she’s a moron.

CC


21 posted on 07/09/2025 6:01:58 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Pedisequus parasiticus es popularium!unintentionally )
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To: Mark17

Is that where you learned what a woman is?


22 posted on 07/09/2025 6:03:18 PM PDT by TexasGator (.i.. logo About Issues Projects Products Connect Subscribe Invest June 19, 2025 | Insight '1-1111 -)
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To: MinorityRepublican

A nothing AA Pavement Ape


23 posted on 07/09/2025 6:04:21 PM PDT by Muhammy
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To: BenLurkin
Maybe she’s just stupid.

Now that, is an understatement of Biblical proportions. 🤪

24 posted on 07/09/2025 6:05:29 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF ISR pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: MinorityRepublican

what about the district dictator ruling?

the govt is not even allowed to make plans

without judicial approval


25 posted on 07/09/2025 6:07:25 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: Judge Bean

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.


26 posted on 07/09/2025 6:07:51 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck, 1980, Reno, NV)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Who needs competent clerks when she can just continue - - to use ChatGPT and AI to write her nonsense dissents?


27 posted on 07/09/2025 6:09:10 PM PDT by philled (I’m free to say whatever I - Whatever I like— if it’s wrong or right it’s alright.)
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To: Dr. Sivana
She would do well to hire some assistants who can write a dissent at a higher level.

You mean like an autopen?
28 posted on 07/09/2025 6:10:56 PM PDT by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: Dr. Sivana

thats what i was thinking

is her staff as incompetent as her?

i think that was true for kamala


29 posted on 07/09/2025 6:11:29 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: Mark17

We hang ‘em high west of the Pecos River. Been up a bit lately.


30 posted on 07/09/2025 6:14:23 PM PDT by Judge Bean
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To: TexasGator
Is that where you learned what a woman is?

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.

31 posted on 07/09/2025 6:17:38 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF ISR pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: JZelle

love me some Whitesnake


32 posted on 07/09/2025 6:23:36 PM PDT by Third Person
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To: MinorityRepublican

She’s crazier than a sh^t house rat.


33 posted on 07/09/2025 6:26:25 PM PDT by llevrok (Keep buggering on!)
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To: Judge Bean

I was at Laughlin for 9 years, so I had a chance to see all those places. 🤣


34 posted on 07/09/2025 6:32:31 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF ISR pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: MinorityRepublican

You can get on the Supreme Court with a 3rd grade education?


35 posted on 07/09/2025 6:33:25 PM PDT by cp124 (Bring back the Constitution.)
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To: JZelle

When two lightweights such as Kagan and Soto think you are an idiot, it says a lot.


36 posted on 07/09/2025 6:46:44 PM PDT by alstewartfan (Old admiras who feel the wind Are never put to sea. Al Stewart)
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To: MinorityRepublican

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.


37 posted on 07/09/2025 6:50:07 PM PDT by Mean Daddy
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To: alloysteel

“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.


38 posted on 07/09/2025 7:18:17 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Take her to the zoo.


39 posted on 07/09/2025 7:22:05 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

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.


40 posted on 07/09/2025 7:22:19 PM PDT by anton
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