Justice Jackson Proves Again She Doesn’t Belong On the Supreme Court

It’s uncommon to witness Supreme Court justices publicly debating one another. Typically, their disagreements surface months later in the form of written opinions after a case has been decided. The justices rarely share the same platform to discuss how the Court is managing ongoing legal disputes.

However, that changed on Monday when Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and Justice Brett Kavanaugh took the stage together and openly squared off about how the Supreme Court has dealt with emergency appeals related to President Donald Trump’s policies.

The discussion focused on the Court’s emergency docket, which includes cases that arise when lower courts block federal policies, prompting the administration to seek the Supreme Court’s permission to implement those policies while litigation is still in progress. This process has become a crucial legal battleground for Trump’s agenda. The Court has frequently intervened after lower courts halted various policies, allowing the administration to move forward while the lawsuits have yet to be resolved.

Jackson, who couldn’t define what a woman was at her confirmation hearing and who injects her left-wing activism into nearly every case, often dissents in these emergency rulings, criticized the Court’s readiness to step in early during such cases at Monday’s event: