The attacks are not random. They seem designed to intimidate those of us who serve in this critical capacity.
Ketanji Brown Jackson: “The attacks are not random. They seem designed to intimidate those of us who serve in this critical capacity.”
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Jackson comments on intimidation tactics against the judiciary.
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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.
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