{"id":2598961,"date":"2026-05-05T12:54:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jackson-accuses-scotus-of-partiality-she-and-her-fellow-liberal-justices-are-guilty-of\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T12:55:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:55:48","slug":"jackson-accuses-scotus-of-partiality-she-and-her-fellow-liberal-justices-are-guilty-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jackson-accuses-scotus-of-partiality-she-and-her-fellow-liberal-justices-are-guilty-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson&#8217;s &#8216;Partiality&#8217; Accusation Against SCOTUS Rings Hollow"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjackson-accuses-scotus-of-partiality-she-and-her-fellow-liberal-justices-are-guilty-of%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2598961&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Ketanji Brown Jackson is criticized for dissenting from a Supreme Court order related to *Louisiana v. Callais*, which fast-tracks transmission of the decision so lower courts and Louisiana can correct an allegedly unconstitutional congressional map before the 2026 midterms. The piece argues Jackson objects on the grounds of avoiding an \u201cappearance of partiality,\u201d but claims her broader approach on the Court is inherently political.<\/p>\n<p>It also alleges that the Court\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >timing reflects partisan strategy<\/a>: an earlier report by Sean Spicer is cited, claiming liberal justices delayed the dissent\/writings to limit states\u2019 time to redistrict ahead of the election. The article links this to other claimed tactics described by Mollie Hemingway, including reports that liberal justices slow-walked releases of dissents in *Dobbs* amid possible threats to conservative justices, thereby extending the timeline for the Court\u2019s final decision.<\/p>\n<p>The author concludes that Jackson\u2019s real complaint isn\u2019t impartiality or rule-of-law procedure, but that the ruling and its implementation conflict with her and her colleagues\u2019 political interests, and portrays their behaviour as ongoing \u201cpolitical activism\u201d rather than judicial restraint.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>One really has to admire the hutzpah of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Not only is she comfortable signing off on some of the most asinine opinions imaginable, but she\u2019s also shameless in gaslighting her conservative colleagues on \u201cpartiality\u201d \u2014 an issue she and her fellow liberal justices know quite a bit about. <\/p>\n<p>The latest incident occurred Monday evening when the Supreme Court released an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/25pdf\/25a1197_097c.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">order<\/a> pertaining to its recently released <em>Louisiana v. Callais<\/em> decision kneecapping race-based redistricting. As The Federalist <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/05\/05\/alito-torches-jacksons-trivial-and-insulting-hot-take-on-supreme-courts-latest-callais-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>, the order fast-tracked transmission of the ruling to the lower courts so they and Louisiana could correct the latter\u2019s unconstitutional congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterms. <\/p>\n<p>Clearly disturbed about the Pelican State fixing its racially gerrymandered map before the general election, Jackson penned a solo dissent lambasting her colleagues\u2019 decision to authorize the ruling\u2019s transmission in accordance with existing Supreme Court rules. She more specifically attacked the court for declining \u201cto stay on the sidelines and take no position by applying our default procedures\u201d as to \u201cavoid the appearance of partiality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, today, the Court chooses the opposite. Not content to have decided the law, it now takes steps to influence its implementation,\u201d Jackson wrote. \u201cThe Court unshackles itself from both constraints today and dives into the fray. And just like that, those principles give way to power. Because this abandon is unwarranted and unwise, respectfully, I dissent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard not to see the irony in all of this. While Jackson feigns worry about the order\u2019s effect on \u201cthe appearance of partiality,\u201d it is her and her liberal colleagues who have made \u201cpartiality\u201d and politics central to how they operate on the high court. <\/p>\n<p>In Monday\u2019s order, Justice Samuel Alito (joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch) authored a concurring opinion addressing Jackson\u2019s \u201ctrivial\u201d and \u201cinsulting\u201d dissent. The Bush appointee notably included a footnote in the opinion recognizing that the \u201cconstitutional question\u201d of whether Louisiana\u2019s congressional map is unlawful \u201cwas argued and conferenced nearly seven months ago.\u201d Put another way, that the court seemingly answered the question not long after it held oral arguments in the case on Oct. 15, 2025. <\/p>\n<p>The reason that detail is significant is because former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/mattvespa\/2026\/04\/16\/is-this-why-the-supreme-court-is-taking-forever-to-release-its-ruling-on-the-voting-rights-act-n2674580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> more than a week before <em>Callais<\/em>\u2018 release that the liberal justices were slow-walking their dissent in the case as a way of impacting the 2026 midterms. The April 29 <em>Callais<\/em> decision was notably the final case from the court\u2019s October sitting to be released. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been told by reliable sources that that[[<em>Louisiana v. Callais<\/em>]decision is done, and that the minority is slow-walking the dissent so that states \u2026 do not have time to redistrict ahead of\u201d the election, Spicer said during a podcast interview. <\/p>\n<p>Spicer\u2019s reporting on the alleged tactics of the liberal justices falls in lockstep with bombshell revelations first disclosed by Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway in her new bestselling book, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Alito-Justice-Reshaped-Restored-Constitution\/dp\/1541607139\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Following the infamous leak of the majority\u2019s <em>Dobbs<\/em> draft opinion overturning <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, Hemingway revealed how the conservative justices \u2014 who were facing a wave of death threats \u2014pleaded with their liberal colleagues to quickly finish their dissent so the court could release the full <em>Dobbs<\/em> decision. The apparent hope was that doing so might cause the threats against them and their families to subside.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than accommodate this request, however, Hemingway reported how the liberals continued to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/04\/18\/explosive-report-as-dobbs-majority-faced-death-threats-liberal-justices-slow-walked-release\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">slow-walk their dissent<\/a> for nearly two months. Not only did sources tell Hemingway that Justice Elena Kagan screamed at Justice Stephen Breyer for his apparent willingness to oblige the conservatives\u2019 request, but The Federalist editor-in-chief also described how the liberal justices included a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/04\/23\/how-liberal-justices-used-a-footnote-to-drag-out-dobbs-release-amid-assassination-threats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gratuitous footnote<\/a> in their dissent to an unreleased case that delayed the <em>Dobbs<\/em> decision by several more weeks. <\/p>\n<p>A Supreme Court decision is not considered final until is handed down from the bench. That means that had one of the justices in the <em>Dobbs<\/em> majority changed their mind due to the threats against them \u2014 or worse, if one of them were to be killed \u2014 the case\u2019s outcome would have changed. <\/p>\n<p>Jackson\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-mtg-responds-to-aocs-latest-temper-tantrum\/\" title=\"Rep. MTG Responds to AOC&#039;s Latest Temper Tantrum\">latest temper tantrum<\/a> has nothing to do with concerns about the \u201cappearance\u201d of Supreme Court \u201cpartiality.\u201d As Alito noted in his concurrence, she doesn\u2019t \u201cexplain why [her] insistence on unthinking compliance with [Supreme Court] Rule 45.3\u2019s default rule does not create the appearance of partiality (by running out the clock) on behalf of those who may find it politically advantageous to have the election occur under [Louisiana\u2019s] unconstitutional map.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What Jackson <em>really<\/em> finds problematic is that the court\u2019s order and the <em>Callais<\/em> decision don\u2019t comport with her left-wing politics. She and her liberal colleagues are not concerned about the rule of law, but about how states\u2019 move toward a race-neutral approach to redistricting will impact Democrat prospects in an upcoming election. <\/p>\n<p>If Jackson and Co. had any interest in the Supreme Court avoiding \u201cthe appearance of partiality,\u201d they\u2019d cut their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suddenly-democrats-arent-concerned-25th-amendment\/\" title=\"Suddenly, Democrats aren\u2019t concerned about the 25th Amendment\">left-wing political theater<\/a> and actually behave like judges are supposed to. But that would require them to abandon their devotion to political activism, a habit they just refuse to break. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He is a co-recipient of the 2025 Dao Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism. His work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics and RealClearHealth. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson\u2019s \u201cpartiality\u201d claims show bold hypocrisy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":2598962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/KBJ.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[43482,10023,46920,79137,6994],"class_list":["post-2598961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-constitutional-law","tag-jackson","tag-judicial-ethics","tag-partiality","tag-scotus"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/KBJ.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2598961"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2598965,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598961\/revisions\/2598965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2598962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2598961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2598961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2598961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}