Ketanji Brown Jackson condemns conservative justices’ pro-Trump orders

Liberal judge attacks emergency-docket rulings designed to benefit president as ‘scratch-paper musings’ The supreme court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has delivered a sustained attack on her conservative colleagues’ use of emergency orders to benefit the Trump administration, calling the orders “scratch-paper musings” that can “seem oblivious and thus ring hollow”. Jackson, the court’s newest justice, delivered a lengthy assessment of roughly two dozen court orders issued last year that allo...

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