Street near Miami named for Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
By FREIDA FRISARO, Associated PressCUTLER BAY, FLA. — (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson came home to South Florida on Monday to celebrate the renaming of a street in her honor in the community where she grew up. “I hope that this street naming will also serve as a testament to what is possible in this great country,” said Brown, the first Black woman to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court justice. The newly named Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Street winds through a suburban neighborhood where peacocks stroll through yards and roost in oak trees. “So far, so far, I’m the only Supreme Court justice who can boast of being from Florida,” Brown said. “And I’m so proud that I grew up here in this South Florida community, which thanks to all of you now has a prominent street that bears my name.”
thewestsidegazette.comWATCH: Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson delivers speech during Miami-Dade street naming ceremony
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson delivered a speech describing a street naming ceremony in her honor on Monday in south Miami-Dade County as a “community celebration” that was “surprisingly emotional.”
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to release Her First Book
From Black Information NetworkJustice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to be appointed to the nation’s highest court, is writing her first book. According to NBC News, Jackson is working on a memoir titled “Lovely One,” which comes from an English translation of her birthname, Ketanji Onyika [Brown]. “Mine has been an unlikely journey,” Jackson said in a statement released Thursday (January 5) by Random House. “But the path was paved by courageous women and men in whose footsteps I placed my own, road warriors like my own parents, and luminaries in the law, whose brilliance and fortitude lit my way. This memoir marries the public record of my life with what is less known.
thewestsidegazette.comNew UF president Sasse says he knows Trump criticism shaped his legacy in US Senate
Nebraska’s outgoing U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse knows he may be remembered more for his criticisms of former President Donald Trump than for the policies he supported during his eight years in office. He ended his run in the U.S. Senate to become president of the University of Florida.
sun-sentinel.comSupreme Court asked to bar punishment for acquitted conduct
A jury convicted Dayonta McClinton of robbing a CVS pharmacy but acquitted him of murder. A judge gave McClinton an extra 13 years in prison for the killing anyway. The Supreme Court is being asked, again, to put an end to the practice.
news.yahoo.comAffirmative action on the line with U.S. Supreme Court (includes video story) Miami's Community News
The U.S Supreme Court recently heard arguments involving affirmative action at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Both universities are defending their race-conscious admissions process against opponents who argue affirmative action is discriminatory. California banned affirmative action in 1996, and students from The New York Times show minority enrollment dropped significantly, from 7% to 3.43% after the proposition was adopted. “I am 100% all for affirmative action,” said Marian Balceiro, an FIU Hamiliton Scholar. She expressed concerns over the elimination of affirmative action.
communitynewspapers.comAffirmative action on the line with U.S. Supreme Court (includes video story) Miami's Community News
The U.S Supreme Court recently heard arguments involving affirmative action at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Both universities are defending their race-conscious admissions process against opponents who argue affirmative action is discriminatory. California banned affirmative action in 1996, and students from The New York Times show minority enrollment dropped significantly, from 7% to 3.43% after the proposition was adopted. “I am 100% all for affirmative action,” said Marian Balceiro, an FIU Hamiliton Scholar. She expressed concerns over the elimination of affirmative action.
communitynewspapers.comJackson, in dissent, issues first Supreme Court opinion
New Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has issued her first Supreme Court opinion, a short dissent Monday in support of a death row inmate from Ohio. Jackson wrote that she would have thrown out lower court rulings in the case of inmate Davel Chinn, whose lawyers argued that the state suppressed evidence that might have altered the outcome of his trial. Justice Sonia Sotomayor was the only other member of the court to join Jackson's opinion.
news.yahoo.comJustice Jackson Recused Herself From a Supreme Court Case. Your Move, Clarence Thomas!
Today, the Supreme Court is hearing arguments that will likely result in its overturning of affirmative action in education. The plaintiffs allege that race-conscious school admissions are a form of discrimination against White and Asian students. It’s bad! But there are actually two separate arguments today about the constitutionality about affirmative action, because Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recused herself from one due to a potential conflict of interest. Justice Clarence Thomas is seein
news.yahoo.comProtest ban at University of Florida after anti-Sasse rally
The University of Florida is going to start enforcing a decades-old prohibition against indoor protests following a raucous demonstration earlier this month against the selection of U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse as a finalist for the school president’s job.
Loud and clear: New Justice Jackson speaks volumes at bench
Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the Supreme Court and its newest justice, said before the term began that she was “ready to work.” For now, Jackson's approach seems less like Justice Clarence Thomas, who once went 10 years without asking a question, and more like Justice Neil Gorsuch, who in his first year was one of the more active questioners. “I can’t think of a time where you’ve seen a junior justice take hold of the arguments” to the same extent, Feldman said using the court’s shorthand title for the newest justice.
news.yahoo.comSupreme Court's new 'class photo' includes number of firsts
The group photo of the Supreme Court's nine members is a long-standing ritual. The new image includes Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black female justice, who joined the court in June. Friday's formal photo captured by news photographers is sometimes called the group's “class photo.”
news.yahoo.comInvestiture ceremony seals the deal: First Black woman on Supreme Court is seated
By Lauren Sue Daily Kos StaffNewly-minted Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will join the court—the first Black woman to do so—on Monday when the new court term begins. Holding on to hope is no small feat, though a necessary one, I am reminded by Jackson’s investiture ceremony on Friday. “It was actually the fact that the old justice was no longer there.”Jackson is filling a seat vacated when Breyer retired. I believe in the power of a Black mother driven by a sense of duty and dedication. In the words of President Joe Biden, who attended Jackson’s investiture ceremony: “Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has already brought uncompromising integrity, a strong moral compass, and courage to the Supreme Court.”
thewestsidegazette.comJustice Ketanji Brown Jackson wades into questioning about murky wetlands dispute as Supreme Court opens new term
The case asks the justices to revisit the scope of the Clean Water Act. The court’s conservative majority is skeptical of broad assertions of federal agency power, which could align with the challengers’ arguments in Monday’s case. The same agency is in front of the court this time, with the Clean Water Act, aimed at protecting water quality, now under the microscope. Although the conservative justices seemed sympathetic to the Sacketts, the difficulty of coming up with a test to apply nationwide was not lost on them. With a solid 6-3 conservative majority in place, Jackson is unlikely to be a key vote in many of the major cases.
thewestsidegazette.comKetanji Brown Jackson invokes 14th Amendment history during Supreme Court voting rights hearing
The court’s newest justice and first Black woman participated in oral arguments Tuesday in a case involving Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bars racial discrimination in voting policies.
news.yahoo.comJustice Jackson, on her first day in the Supreme Court, pushes back on a lawyer trying to gut the Clean Waters Act.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, on her first day as a Supreme Court Justice, pushed back on a lawyer trying to gut the Clean Waters Act. In Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, the extent of the EPA’s regulations will be affected, especially in regards to wetlands. If the court rules in favor of the Sackett’s, the couple that brought the case to the Supreme Court when they were ordered by the EPA to not build on their purchased wetlands in Idaho, then the EPA could be limited in the kinds of wetlands and streams that the Clean Waters Act protects from pollution.
news.yahoo.comMilestone for Miami: First Haitian American Nominee for U.S. Attorney
Lapointe rose from humble origins to become a prosecutor and then a successful attorney at two Miami law firms as he burnished his professional and political reputation over the last two decades. He came to Miami as a 16-year-old to live with his mother and other siblings in Liberty City, during the racially turbulent 1980s in Miami. In 2017, he joined the Miami law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, where he is now a partner, as his professional and political profile rose in South Florida. As a visible figure in Democratic and Haitian American political circles, he also has been a frequent fundraiser for elected judges. The complainant was Clifford Schulman, a well-known land-use attorney who was a partner with Miami’s Weiss Serota law firm.
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