Overview

• The Supreme Court’s 6-3 conservative majority used an expedited shadow docket ruling to narrow nationwide injunctions and temporarily advance President Trump’s effort to revoke automatic birthright citizenship.
• Justice Amy Coney Barrett authored the majority opinion dismissing Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent as at odds with centuries of precedent and accusing her of “embracing an imperial Judiciary.”
• In her dissent, Jackson warned the decision posed an “existential threat to the rule of law” and criticized the majority for yielding to executive power.
• Justice Neil Gorsuch reportedly exchanged sharp words with Jackson over her dissent and labeled her comparison to segregationist resistance “extravagant.”
• Slate analyst Mark Joseph Stern called Barrett’s personal retort “arrogant,” former U.S. attorney Joyce Vance challenged her reliance on Founders’ intent, and MAGA influencers quickly shifted to defending Barrett while assailing Jackson.