Overview

• At the Indianapolis Bar Association on Thursday, Justice Jackson said concerns about the state of American democracy keep her up at night and called on citizens to pay close attention to government actions.
• This week she issued a solo dissent in the Supreme Court’s 8-1 decision allowing President Trump to move forward with sweeping federal workforce layoffs, branding the ruling a “hubristic and senseless” release of a “wrecking ball.”
• In June she penned a dissent in the birthright citizenship case, warning that the majority’s decision undermines the rule of law and risks hastening the downfall of governing institutions.
• Conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett publicly criticized Jackson’s reasoning in the birthright ruling, describing her position as “difficult to pin down” and at odds with more than two centuries of precedent.
• Former adviser Scott Jennings said Jackson has been repeatedly “put in her place” by both liberal and conservative justices this term, underscoring deep ideological fractures on the Court.