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Supreme Court extends full SNAP payment pause despite Ketanji Brown Jackson’s objection

The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended an administrative stay until Thursday on a lower court decision that required the Trump administration to make full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payments during the ongoing government shutdown. The decision does not deny the legal merits of the case, but continues to place a pause on full payments of SNAP benefits for roughly 42 million Americans for another two days. While the Senate has passed a bill that would reopen the government, the […]

todayNovember 12, 2025 2

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Why Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court decision on SNAP benefits is a temporary move

On Friday (Nov. 7), Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson ordered a temporary pause to the full release of Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits by the Trump Administration, a decision that was immediately critiqued and criticized on social media, given that 42 million Americans rely on SNAP benefits and payments had become a hot-button issue in the ongoing government shutdown. However, the move only pauses some payments until the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit reconvenes and […]

todayNovember 9, 2025 1

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is ‘mad as a bag of cats’ over SCOTUS ruling says Republican senator: ‘That’s a good thing’

U.S. Senator John Kennedy, R-La., praised the Supreme Court’s Friday ruling that blocks nationwide injunctions, potentially paving the way for President Donald Trump‘s plans to eliminate birthright citizenship and other executive policies. The 73-year-old lawmaker said he was “proud” of the 6-3 decision from the conservative majority of the court, which limited lower courts to injunctions for any said policy only in a plaintiff’s jurisdiction. “The Supreme Court has turned the universal injunctions into fish food, as well it should […]

todayJune 28, 2025

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Ketanji Brown Jackson gives stark warning after SCOTUS allows Trump to end migrant parole program

Advocates are reeling after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to revoke (for now) a Biden-era parole program that granted temporary legal status for half a million migrants from Haiti, Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. The high court granted a stay of a U.S. District Court ruling that blocked the Trump administration’s effort to end the parole program, known as CHNV. Former President Joe Biden created the program that allowed migrants fleeing humanitarian crises, including violence and poverty, in […]

todayMay 31, 2025 6

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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson condemns Trump’s attacks on judges

In a rare rebuke on Thursday, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson pointedly condemned incessant attacks on federal judges. While she didn’t explicitly name the attackers, a range of attacks have come from President Donald Trump and Republican allies in recent months and over the past year. “The attacks are not random. They seem designed to intimidate those of us who serve in this critical capacity,” Jackson said at a conference for judges in Puerto Rico, Politico reports. “The […]

todayMay 2, 2025

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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says it’s ‘cruel and unusual’ to criminalize homelessness

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson argued that it is “cruel and unusual” to punish unhoused individuals for sleeping in public spaces. “We’re talking about sleeping … that is a basic function,” Justice Jackson said during Monday’s oral arguments in a case that could result in the criminalization of homelessness.  On Monday, the Supreme Court heard more than two hours of arguments in the case of Grants Pass v. Johnson. The justices listened to both sides of the case […]

todayApril 24, 2024

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Ketanji Brown Jackson says memoir will be released in September

Ketanji Brown Jackson‘s debut book, her memoir, will be available for readers on Sept. 3. According to People, “Lovely One” will provide readers with an inside look at Jackson’s historic Supreme Court confirmation, as well as her personal life, including her family’s experience with segregation, her ascent through the legal profession and how she manages a demanding career with motherhood and marriage. Jackson herself said in a statement that the book “marries the public record of my life with what […]

todayFebruary 8, 2024 1