By Luc Cohen, Karen Freifeld and Chris Prentice MIAMI - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said on Thursday she would support revisiting sentencing guidelines for white collar crime because the current framework leads to uneven punishments.
A diverse federal judiciary helps instill public confidence in the rule of law, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said, as federal courts face an historic test of their authority and as a new presidential administration rolls back diversity efforts in government.
A majority of Supreme Court justices did not attend Donald Trump’s joint speech to Congress Tuesday night, among them two of the court’s three liberals: Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Also absent were Justices Samuel Alito,
Earlier, the chief justice temporarily let the Trump administration avoid paying out congressionally appropriated funds for now.
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told her fellow justices that they should not rely on Congress to fix their mistakes.