All articles tagged with #judicial legitimacy
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warned that the Supreme Court risks appearing political after a voting rights ruling, emphasizing the need for the judiciary to preserve nonpartisan legitimacy and public trust; she spoke to the 2025 Supreme Court Fellows Program in Washington.
Since January, the Trump administration has achieved numerous emergency wins at the Supreme Court, which has expanded presidential power, but now the Court faces the challenge of providing detailed legal reasoning for these decisions amid rising political polarization and questions about its legitimacy and independence.
The article criticizes the current Supreme Court's departure from traditional judicial principles like respect for precedent, transparency, humility, and equal treatment, highlighting how recent decisions and practices undermine the court's legitimacy and suggest it is functioning more as a political body than an impartial judiciary.