Jackson’s Lone Voices Highlight Supreme Court Fractures in Busy Term

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson stood out this term with five solo dissents, underscoring liberal divides on the Court as she criticized major decisions—from a rapid ruling on the Voting Rights Act redistricting case and the approach to universal injunctions to dissenting on NIH grant cancellations, Colorado’s conversion-therapy ban and a police-stop ruling. The piece notes friction with colleagues (Kagan’s public rebuke of one dissent, Barrett’s critique) and frames Jackson as an influential but polarizing voice amid intra‑liberal tensions and debates over the Court’s role and executive power.