By Jason Lemon,Peter Aitken
Copyright newsweek
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson rebuked the Supreme Court’s “repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference” in a biting dissent as the conservative majority allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to remove legal protections from more than 300,000 immigrants from Venezuela.
“I view today’s decision as yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket. This Court should have stayed its hand. Having opted instead to join the fray, the Court plainly misjudges the irreparable harm and balance-of-the-equities factors by privileging the bald assertion of unconstrained executive power over countless families’ pleas for the stability our Government has promised them,” Jackson wrote in her dissent.
“Because, respectfully, I cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference with cases pending in the lower courts while lives hang in the balance, I dissent,” the justice wrote. Fellow liberal Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor also opposed the majority’s decision.
This is a developing story and will be updated with additional information.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks onstage at the 2025 ESSENCE Festival of Culture presented by Coca-Cola at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on July 5 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for ESSENCE)
