As she oversaw President Donald Trump’s emergency Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, case this past week, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson once again proved she isn’t beholden to Supreme Court custom.
The least senior justice, who has been the court’s most consistent critic of the second Trump administration, appeared to be sending signals not only about the technicalities of the SNAP case but also more subtle messages about the way the court has handled a litany of short-fuse appeals on its emergency docket this year dealing with presidential power.
She did all that, oddly enough, by siding with Trump.
“She’s modeling the way that the emergency docket should be used,” said Elizabeth Wydra, the president of the liberal Constitutional Accountability Center.
Since joining the court three years ago, Jackson has drawn attention for a sharp pen. That has been particularly notable in a series of cutting dissents she has written this year calling out the
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