Jonathan Turley Says Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Struggling To Get Liberal Justices To Side With Her

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said on Wednesday that Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is currently losing the support of her fellow liberal justices following another legal victory for President Donald Trump.

Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the sole justice to dissent in a decision that allows Trump to move forward with his plans to reduce the federal workforce, calling the majority’s decision “hubristic and senseless.” The majority ruled in an 8-1 decision to lift a lower court’s injunction that blocked Trump’s executive order directing agencies to prepare “large-scale reductions” of staff.

Turley said that Jackson could not even get Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan to sign onto her dissent in this particular case.

“It’s particularly interesting from . It’s not long ago that Justice Barrett went after Justice Jackson for what she described as basically an imperial judiciary,” Turley said. “And on this occasion, Jackson is alone. She couldn’t even get Justice Sotomayor to sign onto this dissent. Keep in mind, what Sotomayor noted in her concurrence is that this order was simply having agencies plan for downsizing and she said we can hardly stop that. Well, yeah, Jackson believes you can and this is part of a signature of what’s becoming some sort of a judicial abandon that Jackson has towards the power of these courts.”

“We’ve seen this interesting progression in these injunction cases. In an earlier case, Justices Sotomayor and Jackson lost Justice Kagan who would not sign on. Now Jackson has lost Justice Sotomayor and she is the sole dissenter,” Turley added.

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