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Ariana Baio

Ketanji Brown Jackson criticizes supreme court’s handling of emergency docket

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‘If we’re not careful, the emergency docket can and will become an end-run around the standard review process.’ Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Pool via AFP/Getty Images

US supreme court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson acknowledged serious concerns about her colleagues’ handling of emergency requests, the method Donald Trump often uses to seek approval from the court.

Jackson, one of the three liberal members of the supreme court, criticized the justices’ willingness to issue rulings via the “shadow docket”, saying it undermines the public’s faith in the judicial system.

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