Justice Jackson marks her first year on the Supreme Court unafraid to stake her own position
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on July 2, 2023
WASHINGTON — When the Supreme Court ruled in June against labor unions, allowing an employer to pursue a damages claim for losses caused by a strike, there was just one dissenting voice: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's.
"Today, the court falters," Jackson wrote, adding that the decision “risks erosion of the right to strike.”
Her lone dissenting vote was a notable moment in a high-stakes first term for the first Black woman to . . .