Overview

• On July 5 at the ESSENCE Festival’s Global Black Economic Forum, Jackson read from her memoir Lovely One and urged increased civic participation to strengthen democracy.
• She said recent conservative majority rulings, including curbs on nationwide injunctions, pose an “existential threat to the rule of law.”
• In a solo dissent in Trump v. Casa, Jackson cautioned that the decision will embolden executive lawlessness and render presidential power “completely uncontainable.”
• During her third term, she authored more than 24 opinions—second only to Justice Clarence Thomas—and led the court in the number of dissents.
• Jackson also emerged as the most vocal justice at oral arguments last term, posing over 79,000 words of questions to influence the court’s deliberations.