#SCOTUS Justice #KetanjiBrownJackson has delivered a sustained attack on her conservative colleagues’ use of emergency orders to benefit the #Trump admin, calling the orders “scratch-paper musings” that can “seem oblivious & thus ring hollow.”

Jackson delivered a lengthy assessment of ~24 court orders issued last year that allowed Trump to put in place controversial policies on #immigration, steep federal #funding cuts & other topics, after lower courts found they were likely illegal.

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While designed to be short-term, those orders have largely allowed #Trump to move ahead — for now — with key parts of his sweeping agenda.

#KetanjiBrownJackson spoke for nearly an hour on Monday at Yale Law School, which posted a video of the event on Wednesday.

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James A. Thomas Lecture: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson delivered the 2025-26 James A. Thomas Lecture, titled “Equity and Exigency: A First-Principles Solution for the Supreme Court’s Emergency Docket.

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It seems Jackson calls them oblivious largely because they're not taking up her personal crusades and instead focusing on the work before the Court.

Over and over we see Jackson try to interject irrelevant issues into cases before the Supreme Court with speakers from all sides trying to explain to her that that's not how the Supreme Court, or courts of appeals in general, function in our government.

That's not a show of integrity. That's a show of undermining core principles of democracy and separation of powers and then complaining when even the other Democratic appointees rebuff that effort.