Ketanji Brown Jackson

Taking its eye off the ball, the majority misses the Government’s actual objective: to secure our imprimatur for its effort to foment chaos ahead of the November elections.

The Court’s disposition of this application does not mean that any measure taken by the Government to implement the Order will necessarily be lawful.

The consequences of allowing such transformative changes to take effect so close to this fall’s elections would be extreme.

This ruling violates well-established precedents concerning this Court’s equitable discretion and needlessly injects chaos and uncertainty into the upcoming midterm elections.

And the hardest part for judges is that we really cannot participate.

You know, there are lots of limits on what judges can do, and I try to be very, very mindful and scrupulous with respect to that because, as you say, our obligation is to be unbiased in our approach.

When I get invitations to do things, I always have them screened by the legal office, the public information office, just to make sure that there are no ethical conflicts, that this is not a fundraiser, you know.

And, so, you have to then navigate all the sources that could make for an appearance of partiality, which you want to avoid.

I try to be very, very mindful and scrupulous with respect to that because, as you say, our obligation is to be unbiased in our approach.

You really have to be focused on that.

This alternative account pitches Black Americans against immigrants when the advocates who promoted the 14th Amendment did no such thing.