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The Guardian - US
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Jessica Glenza and agency

Ketanji Brown Jackson condemns Trump rhetoric ‘designed to intimidate the judiciary’

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Ketanji Brown Jackson on 13 February at the Library of Congress in Washington. Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin/AP

The US supreme court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson condemned the Trump administration’s attacks on the judiciary in a cutting speech at a judicial conference on Thursday evening.

Without mentioning Donald Trump by name, Jackson spoke of “the elephant in the room” and rhetoric from the White House “designed to intimidate the judiciary”.

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