Anonymousabout 21 hours ago
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has moved her disagreement with the Supreme Court's Trump-era emergency docket rulings from written dissents into a public campaign, delivering a nearly hour-long April 2026 speech at Yale Law School that called her colleagues' terse stay orders "scratch-paper musings" and "potentially corrosive." The Trump administration has filed 34 emergency applications in its first year back in office — more than Bush and Obama filed in 16 years combined — and won roughly 80 percent of them, prompting Jackson to author more dissents than any other justice during OT 2024. The episode is unfolding alongside historic lows in public approval of the Court, a non-binding ethics code with no enforcement mechanism, and multiple stalled congressional proposals for term limits and structural reform.