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Why Ketanji Brown Jackson is hell-bent on destroying the Supreme Court

Nypost · · 689 words · By Rich Lowry
Judicial Legitimacy Partisan Polarization Voting Rights and Redistricting
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13 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“The Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais has made progressives even more determined to delegitimize the court”
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While web results confirm the existence and nature of Louisiana v. Callais, there is no evidence in the provided search results that specifically corroborates the claim that this decision made progressives 'more determined to delegitimize the court'. This is an interpretive claim about political sentiment.
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web search NEUTRAL — Louisiana v. Callais, consolidated with Robinson v. Callais, 608 U.S. ___, is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision dealing with racial gerrymandering and redistricting in the state of Louis…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_v._Callais
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web search NEUTRAL — Louisiana v. Callais. In Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court is considering whether to reverse a district court decision that held unconstitutional the map the Louisiana legislature enacted to rem…
https://www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/louisiana-v-cal…
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web search NEUTRAL — LII note: The U.S Supreme Court has now decided Louisiana v. Callais.The Court scheduled the reargument for October 15, 2025.The State of Louisiana is formally an appellant, but it argues against the …
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cert/24-109
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“In a dissent involving a post-decision procedural question, Jackson accused the majority of acting out of pure partisanship.”
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Multiple sources confirm Justice Jackson's dissent. One source specifically states she asserted the majority's decision to finalize the judgment 'expose the Court to accusations of political animus', which aligns with the claim of accusing the majority of partisanship.
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web search NEUTRAL — Since her appointment by President Joe Biden, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has quickly developed a radical and chilling jurisprudence. Her often sole dissents and accusatory rhetoric…
https://jonathanturley.org/2026/05/05/baseless-and-insulting…
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web search NEUTRAL — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asserted that the majority’s decision to grant the application to issue the judgment forthwith served to interfere with the Louisiana election and expose the Court to acc…
https://www.libertynation.com/another-louisiana-scotus-rulin…
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web search NEUTRAL — Justice Writing for Majority. Justice Samuel Alito (joined by Roberts, Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett). Dissenters. Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Settlement/Judgment Amoun…
https://allaboutlawyer.com/louisiana-vs-callais-voting-right…
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“The technical matter under dispute was whether the court would wait 32 days to finalize its decision in Louisiana v. Callais.”
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Evidence from SCOTUSblog and other search results discusses the dispute over 'immediately finalizing' the decision to give the state more 'breathing room' for redistricting, which relates to the procedural timing of the final judgment.
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web search NEUTRAL — Louisiana v. Callais, consolidated with Robinson v. Callais, 608 U.S. ___ (2026), is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision dealing with racial gerrymandering and redistricting in the state o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_v._Callais
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web search NEUTRAL — Louisiana did not, however, specifically endorse the request to fast-track the process of finalizing the Supreme Court’s decision.Louisiana, the district court wrote, “will be afforded the opportunity…
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/major-voting-rights-ruli…
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web search NEUTRAL — The court issued its decision in Louisiana v. Callais on Wednesday, April 29.Finalizing the opinion immediately, they argued, could give the state more breathing room in which to operate, given the sh…
https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/05/court-gives-immediate-eff…
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“This is the usual practice under the court’s Rule 45.3”
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The web search results for 'Rule 45.3' returned results for the clothing brand 'Supreme' instead of the Supreme Court rules. No evidence regarding the specific content of Rule 45.3 was provided.
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web search NEUTRAL — Supreme is an American clothing brand established in Manhattan, New York City, in April 1994. The company focuses on streetwear, skateboarding, and hip-hop fashion trends.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_(brand)
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web search NEUTRAL — Supreme. The official website of Supreme. EST 1994. NYC.
https://www.supremenewyork.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — Supreme official website, established in 1994 in NYC, offers exclusive collections and collaborations. Explore the latest updates and releases.
https://supreme.com/
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“the rule is flexible, a default “unless the Court or a Justice shortens or extends the time.””
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Similar to claim 3, the search results failed to provide the text or interpretation of Supreme Court Rule 45.3.
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web search NEUTRAL — But, the court wrote, in this case the Black voters defending the map at the center of the dispute “have not expressed any intent to ask this Court to reconsider its judgment.” The court issued its de…
https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/05/court-gives-immediate-eff…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Supreme Court last month declared Louisiana’s newly-drawn Congressional map an unconstitutional gerrymander. The high court issued the ruling 6-3. Liberal justices Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson dis…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/justice-alito-blast…
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web search NEUTRAL — The federal court system has three main levels: district courts, circuit courts and the U.S. Supreme Court. Federal judges and Supreme Court justices are appointed by the president and confirmed by th…
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the-u-s-court-syste…
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“With the scheduled May 16 primaries rapidly approaching (they’ve now been delayed), the state wants to re-draw its maps in keeping with the court’s decision.”
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Two independent sources confirm that Louisiana was scheduled to hold primary elections on May 16 and that House primary races were subsequently delayed by Governor Jeff Landry.
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web search NEUTRAL — Louisiana will hold some of its primary elections on May 16, though its House primary races have been delayed at the direction of Gov. Jeff Landry (R-LA).
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/where-do-things-stan…
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web search NEUTRAL — That pretty much says it all.” — Stuart Rothenberg, editor of the Rothenberg Political Report. “Political Wire is one of only four or five sites that I check every day and sometimes several times a da…
https://politicalwire.com/2026/05/03/delayed-louisiana-prima…
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web search NEUTRAL — Louisiana runoff election. Louisiana doesn’t have partisan primaries. Instead, all candidates run on the same November 5 ballot. A candidate who receives more than 50% of the vote wins the election.
https://edition.cnn.com/election/2024/calendar
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“Jackson’s dissent quotes a 2019 decision of the court in Rucho v. Common Cause”
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A search result explicitly states that Justice Jackson quoted Chief Justice John Roberts's 2019 majority opinion in Rucho v. Common Cause in her opinion recap.
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web search NEUTRAL — In the 2019 decision Rucho v. Common Cause, which arose out of North Carolina's district maps, the Supreme Court held that partisan gerrymandering claims are beyond the reach of federal courts, and th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_v._Harper
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web search NEUTRAL — Supreme Court Ketanji Brown Jackson Opinion Recap Sam Alito.She quoted Chief Justice John Roberts’s 2019 majority opinion in Rucho v. Common Cause, in which he warned of the putative dangers of any ju…
https://ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/samuel-alito-ketanji-brow…
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web search NEUTRAL — The high court decided in the 2019 case of Rucho v. Common Cause that although partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional, it cannot be challenged in federal court. Scroll to Continue.
https://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-justice/race-voting-ri…
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“When the state created a congressional map after the 2020 census with just one majority-minority district, it got sued for not sufficiently taking race into account; a judge ordered it to make a second minority district.”
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The provided search results for this claim were dictionary definitions of the word 'following' and did not contain any factual information regarding Louisiana's 2020 census maps or court orders.
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web search NEUTRAL — The meaning of FOLLOWING is being next in order or time. How to use following in a sentence.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/following
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web search NEUTRAL — FOLLOWING definition: 1. after: 2. The following day, morning, etc. is the next one. 3. a wind that is blowing in the…. Learn more.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/followin…
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web search NEUTRAL — Define following. following synonyms, following pronunciation, following translation, English dictionary definition of following. adj. 1. Coming next in time or order: in the following chapter. 2. Now…
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/following
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“When Louisiana complied by manufacturing a monstrosity of a district stretching 250 miles to randomly scoop up black voters, it got sued again — this time, for taking race too much into account — and that case made it to the Supreme Court.”
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“neither of the other progressives joined it, not even Justice Sonia Sotomayor.”
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“He noted that the constitutional question in the case was “argued and conferenced nearly seven months ago.””
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“two African-American candidates, Democrat Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker, ran against each other [in the 2022 US Senate race in Georgia]”
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“Were the voting rights of Christians in New York City crimped in 2025 because a Muslim man won the mayoral election?”
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