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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is working on a memoir.

Supreme Court arguments are continuing long after a red light tells lawyers to stop.

In courtrooms across America, defendants get additional prison time for crimes juries found they didn’t commit.

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.”

The Supreme Court began its new term Monday with a new justice on the bench, the public back in the courtroom and a spirited debate in a case that pits environmental protections against property rights.

The court is diving back in with an aggressive agenda that seems likely to split its six conservative justices from its three liberals.

The Supreme Court begins a new term on Monday at a time of diminished public confidence and justices sparring openly over the institution’s legitimacy.

Newly-confirmed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was welcomed to the Supreme Court Friday with a traditional investiture ceremony.

Ahead of the Supreme Court's term beginning next week, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson participated in a short, formal investiture ceremony on Friday.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says she has “a seat at the table now and I’m ready to work,” leaning into her history-making role as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

Jackson took the constitutional and judicial oaths at the end of June.

The Supreme Court says it will continue providing live audio broadcasts of arguments in cases.

The Supreme Court doesn’t appear to have found the person who leaked a draft of the court’s major abortion decision last spring.

"Did I do everything I could to persuade people? Of course, of course," Breyer said during an interview with CNN's Chris Wallace.

I remember thinking it was exceptional. In retrospect, it’s heartbreaking.

Recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has become the honorary co-chairman of a nonpartisan group devoted to education about the Constitution.

Breyer joked, “Why is the world in such a mess?” after he was reminded that he’d written 525 legal opinions.

About 2 in 3 Americans say they favor term limits or a mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices.

The Supreme Court has taken a step that will allow new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the court, to take part in a case that could lead to the end of the use of race in college admissions.

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed the nomination of South Carolina jurist Michelle Childs to sit on the federal court typically seen as a proving ground for the nation’s highest bench.

Retired Justice Stephen Breyer is getting a different title: professor.

Until last week when he swore in Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, his successor on the Supreme Court, Justice Stephen Breyer had a rigorous, intellectually challenging job with the highest of stakes.

Until last week when he swore in Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, his successor on the Supreme Court, Justice Stephen Breyer had a rigorous, intellectually challenging job with the highest of stakes. As a retired justice, Breyer can maintain an office at the Supreme Court if he wants to and also gets a clerk to help him. One example: Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the court's first female justice, in retirement founded a group that teaches students civics through computer games.

In an interview, a political scientist discusses the Supreme Court’s misreadings of the history of gun regulation.

Abortion, guns, religion.

President Joe Biden called on the Senate to eliminate its filibuster rules to allow Congress to codify abortion protections and privacy rights. CBS News congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane reports.

The Supreme Court dealt a major blow to the Biden administration on the environment, but gave it a small victory on immigration in two decisions announced Thursday. AP reporter Mark Sherman explains. (June 30)

She is the 116th justice to serve on the Supreme Court and its first Black woman.

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade at a time when it has an unprecedented Catholic supermajority.

Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in as the court's 116th justice on Thursday, becoming the first Black woman to serve as a justice. (June 30)

Ketanji Brown Jackson has been sworn in to the Supreme Court, shattering a glass ceiling as the first Black woman on the nation’s highest court.

The first Black woman confirmed for the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, is set to be sworn in as the court's 116th justice on Thursday.

The Supreme Court faces historically low confidence ratings from the public and is being criticized for overturning abortion rights.

Last week Clarence Thomas achieved two long-sought goals: expanding gun rights and overturning Roe v. Wade’s nationwide protection for abortion.

Breyer's retirement sets the stage for Ketanji Brown Jackson to begin her service as the Supreme Court's 116th justice.

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will retire a week after the court overturned Roe v. Wade, which established a constitutional right to abortion.

"It has been my great honor to participate as a judge in the effort to maintain our Constitution and the rule of law," Breyer told President Biden in a letter.

The Supreme Court has allowed a former state trooper to sue Texas over his claim that he was forced out of his job when he returned from Army service in Iraq.

Supreme Court justices are the only federal judges exempt from the judicial Code of Conduct, designed to maintain the integrity and independence of the court.

The Supreme Court has ruled for doctors who face criminal charges for overprescribing powerful pain medication, in a case arising from the opioid addiction crisis.

The Supreme Court has made it easier for certain prison inmates to seek shorter sentences under a bipartisan 2018 federal law aimed at reducing racial disparities in prison terms for cocaine crimes.

More than a month ago, a stunning leak of a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito indicated that the Supreme Court was prepared to take the momentous step of overruling the Roe v. Wade decision from 1973 and stripping away women's constitutional protections for abortion.

The nine justices of the Supreme Court made clear in their landmark ruling Friday whether they stand on abortion.

Sweeping Supreme Court rulings on guns and abortion this past week have sent an unmistakable message.

The decision will expose any number of well-established laws to similar challenges, and rattle efforts to arrive at a national consensus on guns.

The majority overruled Roe and Casey "because it has always despised them," wrote Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan in a joint dissent.

The Supreme Court issued its biggest gun rights ruling in more than a decade Thursday.

The Supreme Court ruling is a victory for Second Amendment advocates, who opposed the New York law restricting concealed carry gun licenses.

The Supreme Court has ruled against immigrants who are seeking their release from long periods of detention while they fight deportation orders.

A man armed with a machete once broke into Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s vacation home in the Caribbean and took $1,000.

Supreme Court financial disclosures reveal that the justices took in $800,000 in book royalties last year, a lucrative supplement to their judicial salaries.

A source told NPR clerks act as diplomats for justices, but the fear that their professional lives are under threat is straining the Supreme Court.

A divided Supreme Court has blocked a Texas law, championed by conservatives, that aimed to keep social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter from censoring users based on their viewpoints.

The Supreme Court has ruled along ideological lines against two Arizona death row inmates who had argued that their lawyers did a poor job representing them in state court.

If we all spoke circumspectly and wisely all the time, who would even need free-speech policies?

The Supreme Court’s nine justices met in private for the first time since the leak of a draft opinion that would overrule Roe v.

A procession of family, friends and colleagues gathered to honor late U.S. Sen. Orrin G.

The Supreme Court is known for keeping secrets.

The unanimous decision was sufficiently narrow that other cities, indeed Boston itself, could construct rules that would limit flag flying to government-approved messages.

The justices agreed that the city discriminated against an activist for refusing his request to fly a Christian flag outside City Hall.

The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 in favor of Camp Constitution, a Christian civic organization, and its director.

A unanimous Supreme Court has ruled that Boston violated the free speech rights of a conservative activist when it refused his request to fly a Christian flag on a flagpole outside City Hall.

"Boston's flag-raising program does not express government speech," Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the Supreme Court, which reversed a lower court's judgment.

The Supreme Court has upheld the dismissal of a discrimination lawsuit filed by a deaf and legally blind woman against a physical therapy business that wouldn’t provide an American Sign Language interpreter for her appointments.

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the dismissal of a discrimination lawsuit filed by a deaf, legally blind woman against a physical therapy business that wouldn't provide an American Sign Language interpreter for her appointments. In a 6-3 ruling with conservatives in the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that businesses that receive federal health care money can't be sued for discrimination under the Affordable Care Act when the harm alleged is emotional, not financial. Justice Stephen Breyer wrote in dissent that people who suffer discrimination often feel humiliation or embarrassment.

Breyer will be replaced by Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, his former law clerk.

Breyer will be replaced by Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, his former law clerk.

The fertile mind of Justice Stephen Breyer has conjured a stream of hypothetical questions through the years that have, in the words of a colleague, “befuddled” lawyers and justices alike.

The sitting Supreme Court justice is now contractually obligated to step down.

More Americans approve than disapprove of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court as its first Black female justice, a new poll finds, but that support is politically lopsided.

She will become the 116th Associate Justice of the Supreme Court when she takes the bench after Justice Stephen Breyer retires in June.

"I told her that I felt such a deep sense of pride and joy and about what this moment means for our nation and for her future," Harris said.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will take her place on the Supreme Court this summer, when Justice Stephen Breyer retires.

Jackson, confirmed to the Supreme Court in a 53-47 vote in the Senate, spoke alongside President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

Justice Breyer said he would retire once his successor had been confirmed, but not before the end of the term.

Tearfully embracing a history-making moment, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Friday her confirmation as the first Black woman to the Supreme Court shows the progress of America.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will join a Supreme Court that is both more diverse than ever and more conservative than it’s been since the 1930s.

Lawmakers erupted in cheers after Vice President Kamala Harris announced the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.

When Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer retires this summer, a 51-year-old mother of two who grew up in Miami will make history as the first Supreme Court justice from Florida and the first Black woman.

The vote will be a significant bipartisan accomplishment for President Biden in the narrow 50-50 Senate.

The vote will be a significant bipartisan accomplishment for President Biden in the narrow 50-50 Senate.

The vote on the historic nomination was 53 to 47, with three Republicans voting with Democrats. When sworn in this summer, Brown will be the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

When sworn in this summer, Brown will be the first Black woman on the Supreme Court. With three Republican senators saying they'll vote for her, Democrats appear to have enough votes for confirmation.

The Senate has confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, shattering a historic barrier by securing her place as the first Black female justice and giving President Joe Biden a bipartisan endorsement for his effort to diversify the court.

Three Republican senators are breaking from their party to support Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's historic nomination to the Supreme Court.

Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney say they will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic nomination to the Supreme Court, giving President Joe Biden’s nominee a new burst of bipartisan support to become the first Black woman on the high court.

The Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked, 11-11, on whether to send Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination to the Senate floor. But President Joe Biden’s nominee is still on track to be confirmed this week. (April 4)

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says he won’t vote for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Maine Sen. Susan Collins says she'll vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, giving Democrats at least one Republican vote and all but assuring Jackson will become the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court is casting doubt on Texas’ claim that it can’t be sued by a former state trooper who says he was forced out of his job when he returned from Army service in Iraq.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday cast doubt on Texas' claim that it can't be sued by a former state trooper who says he was forced out of his job when he returned from Army service in Iraq. The justices heard arguments in a dispute over a federal law that was enacted in 1991 in the wake of the Persian Gulf war to strengthen job protections for returning service members. Over 90 minutes, the justices discussed the Vietnam War, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Alexander Hamilton and even Hamilton, the musical, as they tried to sort through whether states are shielded from lawsuits filed by veterans who complain that their jobs were not protected, in violation of the federal law.

Reports that the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas implored Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff to act to overturn the 2020 election results have put a spotlight on how justices decide whether to step aside from a case.

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin has announced his intention to support the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, pushing her one step closer to confirmation.

After more than 30 hours of hearings, the Senate is on track to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

News of Thomas' hospitalization came before confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden's pick to replace Justice Stephen Breyer.

TMZ approached Breyer as he was leaving a restaurant in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court has declined to give updates on Thomas' medical status.

Judge Jackson defended her record of sentences she handed down in child pornography cases after Republican senators alleged she was soft on crime.

A Collegedale, Tenn., police officer is being investigated after he used his stun gun on a Black food delivery driver during a traffic stop.

Democrats are hoping to finish Jackson's confirmation process before Congress leaves for Easter recess April 11.

President Joe Biden's first Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, is set to appear before U.S. senators to start four days of hearings.