Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said Thursday that the "state of our democracy" keeps her up at night, echoing a theme that has animated some of her recent public appearances and fiery dissents from recent decisions.
"I'm really very interested to get people to focus, and to invest and to pay attention to what is happening in our country and in our government," Jackson said. . . .
On Saturday, at a different event in New Orleans, Jackson called the conservative bloc's decisions "an existential threat to the rule of law." . . .
On why she writes dissents as much as she does, Jackson commented: