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Supreme Court Justice Blasts Conservative Colleagues Over Trump Orders
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Supreme Court Justice Blasts Conservative Colleagues Over Trump Orders

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has issued a scathing public critique of her conservative colleagues, calling their emergency-docket rulings favouring the Trump administration "scratch-paper musings" that "ring hollow." Jackson reviewed roughly two dozen emergency orders issued last year, marking one of the most direct public attacks on the court's ideological majority by a sitting justice in recent memory.

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