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By Carl Gibson | Washington, DC | July 11, 2025
Recently, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was asked what keeps her up at night. While she didn’t directly name President Donald Trump, she heavily referenced his administration in her remarks.
The Daily Beast reported Thursday that Jackson — who was appointed to the Supreme Court by former President Joe Biden in 2022 – urged her fellow Americans during a question-and-answer session at the Indianapolis Bar Association to be vigilant about what their government was doing. Jackson’s remarks came in response to a question from moderator Jane Magnus-Stinson, who is a senior U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Indiana, about what keeps her up at night.
“I would say the state of our democracy,” Justice Jackson said. “I am really very interested in getting people to focus and to invest and to pay attention to what is happening in our country and in our government.”
Though she didn’t elaborate further, Jackson’s comments come after a particularly contentious Supreme Court term. The 6-3 conservative supermajority (which includes three Trump appointees) handed down multiple decisions drastically expanding executive power while curtailing the power of institutions tasked with checking it — including the courts themselves.
Among the most controversial decisions includes the Trump v. Casa case, in which the Court’s conservatives stripped lower courts of the ability to issue nationwide injunctions blocking illegal executive orders from going into effect. That decision was the result of litigation brought against Trump’s day one executive order ending birthright citizenship – which is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution — for the American-born children of undocumented immigrants.
The majority opinion in Trump v. Casa, which was authored by Trump-appointed Justice Amy Coney Barrett, left the door open for groups of states to obtain relief for their particular jurisdictions, including if they unite in litigation as one class. This means that in states with Democratic attorneys general that have sued to stop Trump’s birthright citizenship order, there would be two classes of citizens (should the Democratic attorneys general ultimately prevail) depending on whether a child of undocumented immigrants is born in a state that won those protections.
Toward the end of the 2024-2025 term, Jackson tore into her colleagues for being captive to “moneyed interests.” Without naming any specific names, the liberal jurist used her dissent in the Diamond Alternative Energy v. Environmental Protection Agency decision (which sided against federal regulations over the fossil fuel industry) to slam her colleagues for “being overly sympathetic to corporate interests.”
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