Ketanji Brown Jackson: “The Court has now declared for the first time in history that the most powerful official in the United States can ……”

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.

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