Ketanji Brown Jackson: “I have no doubt that, if judges must allow the executive to act unlawfully in some circumstances, executive lawlessness…”

It feels to me like the defendants ... are bringing it back to federal court before the state courts have really had a chance to sort out who is the source, what is their allegation with respect to how this causation is happening.

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

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

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.