Ketanji Brown Jackson: “The dual state that you lived in, and that you worked in, and that must be called out unflinchingly whenever it rears…”

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.

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.

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