Liberal judge attacks emergency-docket rulings designed to benefit president as ‘scratch-paper musings’The supreme court justice
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Liberal judge attacks emergency-docket rulings designed to benefit president as ‘scratch-paper musings’
The supreme court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has delivered a sustained attack on her conservative colleagues’ use of emergency orders to benefit the Trump administration, calling the orders “scratch-paper musings” that can “seem oblivious and thus ring hollow”.
Jackson, the court’s newest justice, delivered a lengthy assessment of roughly two dozen court orders issued last year that allowed Donald Trump to put in place controversial policies on immigration, steep federal funding cuts and other topics, after lower courts found they were probably illegal.
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