U.S. Supreme Court
Justice Jackson slams Supreme Court’s emergency orders
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks to the 2025 Supreme Court fellows in February 2025 at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Jacquelyn Martin/The Associated Press)
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has slammed her conservative colleagues’ use of the emergency docket, which handed a series of victories to President Donald Trump at the beginning of his second term.
During a talk to Yale Law School students and faculty Monday, Jackson expressed concern about the high court’s recent liberal use of its emergency docket, which allowed Trump to move forward with controversial policies after lower courts blocked them.
Details of the speech were reported in Law360, Politico, Bloomberg Law and other news outlets.
Jackson told the students Monday that those emergency rulings undermine the high court’s credibility with the public because they are often issued with little explanation despite their sweeping impact on millions of people.
Jackson added that the Supreme Court’s “scratch-paper” orders don’t acknowledge the harms that can follow such decisions, making the orders “seem oblivious and thus ring hollow.”
“There is a serious concern that the Supreme Court’s modern stay practices are having an enormously disruptive and potentially corrosive effect on the functioning of the federal judiciary’s usual decision-making process,” Jackson said in a video of the speech posted online after her talk.
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