Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says she’s found a way of knocking out her worries: landing blows on life’s ...
Marbury against Madison, Mississippi against Johnson, discussed this broad immunity principle that — JUSTICE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON: So what was up with the pardon? What was up with the pardon ...
The Supreme Court on Monday left in place Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era practice of removing voting rights from people convicted ...
The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. In 1974, the Supreme Court ruled t ...
I would like to focus here on a galling aspect of Jackson’s brief opinion. At her Senate confirmation hearing, Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson pretends to be an originalist.
The U.S. Supreme Court chose not to review a challenge to Mississippi's lifetime voting ban on individuals convicted of certain felonies. Created in 1890, the ban disenfranchises people even after ...
The class action suit was brought in 2018 by six Mississippi men, including white and Black plaintiffs, who lost the right to ...
Originally published by The 19th. The Michigan Advance is part of The 19th Reporting Network. During Joe Biden’s four years as president, he and Senate Democrats prioritized diversity at an ...
over a dissent from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson that was joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Mississippi’s list of disqualifying crimes was “adopted for an illicit discriminatory purpose ...
Using different legal arguments, lawyers failed to get the Supreme Court to take up the felon disenfranchisement issue in 2023, over a dissent from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson that was joined by ...