Overview

• Jackson spoke 50% more words at oral arguments this term than any colleague and wrote more opinions than all but Justice Clarence Thomas
• She issued a blistering solo dissent in the Trump birthright citizenship case warning of an existential threat to the rule of law
• In a recent disability-benefits ruling, Jackson criticized her conservative colleagues’ “pure textualism” as manipulable to secure favorable outcomes
• Her solo dissents in air pollution and Department of Government Efficiency data-access cases emphasized real-world impacts on ordinary citizens
• Justice Amy Coney Barrett publicly lambasted Jackson’s birthright citizenship critique as inconsistent with centuries of precedent, underscoring deep methodological divides