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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I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don’t know where it goes
But it’s home to me and I walk alone
She would do well to hire some assistants who can write a dissent at a higher level. When Thurgood Marshall was spent, that’s what he did at the end.
Her street cred is waxing while her two liberal peers that voted for, are
waning.
Jackson is just out there. She makes it up as she goes along, pays no heed to the law. Will become a real problem of credibility if someone doesn’t talk turkey with her soon.
Is it possible that KBJ could be SHAMED into resigning her seat on the Supreme Court bench? With the second-grade mentality she exhibits, I almost expect her to burst into tears at the rebuke coming from her peers.
Any judicial temperament she might have had, is now so dispersed as to be almost undetectable. Jasmine Crockett has a cooler head.
The Supreme Court ruled “in favor” of the Law, the United States Constitution.
Two weeks ago this hack wrote its acceptable for the court to force the president to follow the law. Now she’s saying it’s acceptable for the president to ignore the law.
DEI gonna DEI.
Jackson is all about her desired outcomes, period.
Maybe she’s just stupid.
I bet her IQ doesn’t go past 110....if that.
Grapes of wrath?
If this case favored Biden, Jackson would have been the first to support it.
But being a mean, petty, liberal Rat has clouded her judgement. If indeed she ever had any to begin with.
She doesn’t know the law. That is her problem.
Is she the one who is not a biologist?
Rhetorical question.
“...releasing the president’s wrecking ball” on the federal bureaucracy...”
That is a beautiful thing.
What can we expect, from someone who doesn’t even know what a woman is? By the way, I visited the Jersey Lilly in Langtry, TX once.
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