{"id":21463,"date":"2026-04-17T01:20:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/justice-jackson-chides-oblivious-supreme-court-conservatives\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T01:20:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:20:25","slug":"justice-jackson-chides-oblivious-supreme-court-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/justice-jackson-chides-oblivious-supreme-court-conservatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Jackson chides &#8216;oblivious&#8217; Supreme Court conservatives&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\">\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/author\/mark-sherman\">             <picture data-crop=\"60x60\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"60\" height=\"60\"><source width=\"60\" height=\"60\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Staff headshot of Mark Sherman at the Associated Press bureau in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. (AP Photo\/Andrew Harnik)\" width=\"60\" height=\"60\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/1ae3d41\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/3057x3057+441+0\/resize\/60x60!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fff%2Fde%2F00e86ca64843a74f1b1f1f967020%2Fhi-res-02-mark-sherman.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>                                <bsp-timestamp data-timestamp=\"1776290287000\" data-recent-thresholdinhours=\"1\">                    <template data-date-tpl>Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]<\/template>                    <span data-date><\/span>                <\/bsp-timestamp>            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>                                    <bsp-page-actions>                            <\/bsp-page-actions>                                                            <\/div>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/us-supreme-court\">Supreme Court<\/a><\/span><span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ketanji-brown-jackson\">Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson<\/a><\/span>  has delivered a sustained attack on her conservative colleagues&rsquo; use of emergency orders to benefit the Trump administration, calling the orders &ldquo;scratch-paper musings&rdquo; that can &ldquo;seem oblivious and thus ring hollow.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The court&rsquo;s newest justice, Jackson delivered a lengthy assessment of roughly two dozen court orders issued last year that allowed <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump<\/a><\/span>  to put in place controversial policies on immigration, steep federal funding cuts and other topics, after lower courts found they were likely illegal.<\/p>\n<p>While designed to be short-term, those orders have largely allowed Trump to move ahead &mdash; for now &mdash; with key parts of his sweeping agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson spoke for nearly an hour on Monday at Yale Law School, which posted a <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/law.yale.edu\/yls-today\/yale-law-school-videos\/james-thomas-lecture-justice-ketanji-brown-jackson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a><\/span>  of the event on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Last week, Justice Sonia Sotomayor similarly <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/supreme-court-trump-emergency-docket-sotomayor-9b44e480117fbc83adc587824efd29a4\">talked about emergency orders<\/a><\/span>  in an event Tuesday at the University of Alabama that also took issue with the conservatives&rsquo; approach.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson has previously criticized the emergency orders both in dissenting opinions and in an <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/supreme-court-kavanaugh-jackson-emergency-appeals-84fa9402f5b449316d2cd28bdda1d06b\">unusual appearance<\/a><\/span>  with Justice Brett Kavanaugh last month. But her talk at Yale, addressing the public rather than the other eight justices, was notable.<\/p>\n<p>She referred to orders, which often are issued with little or no explanation as &ldquo;back-of-the-envelope, first-blush impressions of the merits of the legal issue.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Worse still, she said, was that the court then insists that &ldquo;those scratch-paper musings&rdquo; be applied by lower courts in other cases.<\/p>\n<p>The orders suffer from an additional problem, she said, a failure to acknowledge that real people are involved, making them &ldquo;seem oblivious and thus ring hollow.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>She also pushed back on the court&rsquo;s assessment that preventing the president from putting his policy in place also is a harm that often outweighs what the challengers to a policy might face.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The president of the United States, though he may be harmed in an abstract way, he certainly isn&rsquo;t harmed if what he wants to do is illegal,&rdquo; Jackson said during a question-and-answer session with law school dean Cristina Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p>The court used to be reluctant to step into cases early in the legal process, she said. &ldquo;There is value in avoiding having the court continually touching the third rail of every divisive policy issue in American life,&rdquo; Jackson said.<\/p>\n<p>While she said she couldn&rsquo;t explain the change, &ldquo;in recent years, the Supreme Court has taken a decidedly different approach to addressing emergency stay applications. It has been noticeably less restrained, especially with respect to pending cases that involve controversial matters.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div data-ap-newsletter-embed-nlmw25 data-module-tracksubscribe data-gtm-topic=\"No Value\" data-align-center>\n<p><strong>Sign up for Morning Wire:<\/strong>    Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day.  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jackson, often joined by Sotomayor and Justice Elena Kagan, has frequently dissented.<\/p>\n<p>There have been conversations about emergency orders among the justices, Jackson said, but she decided to speak publicly with the goal of being &ldquo;a catalyst for change.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Also on Wednesday, Sotomayor issued a rare public apology to another justice, Kavanaugh, for what she termed &ldquo;hurtful comments&rdquo; she made last week during an appearance at the University of Kansas law school.<\/p>\n<p>Referencing an opinion Kavanaugh wrote in an immigration case where the court granted an emergency order sought by the administration, Sotomayor said her colleague &ldquo;probably doesn&rsquo;t really know any person who works by the hour.&rdquo; Her remarks were reported by Bloomberg Law.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/supreme-court-jackson-criticism-conservatives-trump-rulings-976a16d91953f42426818add77c7e3f2\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; Supreme CourtJustice Ketanji Brown Jackson has delivered a sustained attack on her conservative colleagues&rsquo; use of emergency orders to benefit the Trump administration, calling the orders &ldquo;scratch-paper musings&rdquo; that can &ldquo;seem oblivious and thus ring hollow.&rdquo; The court&rsquo;s newest justice, Jackson delivered a lengthy assessment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trump"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}