After Supreme Court Justice Jackson issued a solo dissent against President Trump’s federal layoff plan, Jonathan Turley criticized her decision as 'judicial abandon.'

"I would say that I am really very interested in getting people to ... pay attention to what is happening in our country and in our government," Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said at a bar association event in Indianapolis.

Liberals as a whole have had a tough 2025 at the Supreme Court, but I think I'm safe in saying that none have had it quite as bad as Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Between citing a hypothetical Martian as an argument to allow district judges to keep issuing universal injunctions and completely ignoring what a case was about when deciding American Federation of Government Employees v.

Supreme Court justices Jackson and Sotomayor disagree over Trump's federal workforce reduction plan in an 8-1 ruling that allows the president's downsizing initiative to proceed.

In her CASA dissent, Justice Jackson gestures to a split screen, a world in which justice and injustice can live side by side within a single regime.