Having enshrined a returning LPR’s already-admitted status, Congress could not have meant for the guarantees it was affording to be so cavalierly swept aside.
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Judge / Justice
Ketanji Brown Jackson is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, having been nominated by President Joe Biden and confirmed in April 2021. She is the first African American woman to serve on the Court. Prior to her appointment, Jackson served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and was a federal district judge for the District of Columbia. Her judicial philosophy emphasizes a commitment to the rule of law and the importance of constitutional protections against governmental overreach.
The majority undermined the rule of law and rights of immigrants, and that the government should not be able to impose severe consequences because of unproven allegations.
I think that means it's incumbent on us to do things, to act in ways, that shore up public confidence.
Everyone believes the court system is outside the political sphere. I think that means it's incumbent on us to do things, to act in ways, that shore up public confidence.
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.
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.