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Ketanji Brown Jackson: “Taking its eye off the ball, the majority misses the Government’s actual objective: to secure our imprimatur for its…”

On the recordAugust 25, 2026
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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Ketanji Brown Jackson

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Critique of the Supreme Court's majority decision.

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