Ketanji Brown Jackson turns independent streak loose on fellow justices

Ketanji Brown Jackson turns independent streak loose on fellow justices

To hear Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson tell it, it’s a “perilous moment for our Constitution.”  The Supreme Court’s most junior justice had pointed exchanges with her colleagues on the bench this term, increasingly accusing them of unevenly applying the law — even if it meant standing on her own from the court’s other liberal justices. Jackson has had an independent streak since President Biden nominated her to the bench in 2022. But the dynamic …