Ketanji Brown Jackson

Public confidence is really all the judiciary has.

The Court’s decision to permit the Executive to violate the Constitution with respect to anyone who has not yet sued is an existential threat to the rule of law.

The decision … gives the Executive the go-ahead to sometimes wield the kind of unchecked, arbitrary power the Founders crafted our Constitution to eradicate.

The Court has now declared for the first time in history that the most powerful official in the United States can … become a law unto himself.

I have a very thick skin.

Perhaps the degradation of our rule-of-law regime would happen anyway.

The threats and harassment are attacks on our democracy, on our system of government.

The attacks are not random. They seem designed to intimidate those of us who serve in this critical capacity.

I have no doubt that, if judges must allow the Executive to act unlawfully in some circumstances, as the Court concludes today, executive lawlessness will flourish.

I would say the state of our democracy.

That temporary, practical, harm-reducing preservation of the status quo was no match for this Court’s demonstrated enthusiasm for greenlighting this President’s legally dubious actions in an emergency posture.

Ketanji Brown Jackson, the only justice to provide a written dissent, sharply criticized the decision as 'hubristic and senseless.'