{"id":117620,"date":"2025-05-03T11:05:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T19:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/03\/ketanji-brown-jackson-openly-denounces-trumps-attacks-on-judges\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T11:05:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T19:05:25","slug":"ketanji-brown-jackson-openly-denounces-trumps-attacks-on-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/03\/ketanji-brown-jackson-openly-denounces-trumps-attacks-on-judges\/","title":{"rendered":"Ketanji Brown Jackson Openly Denounces Trump\u2019s Attacks On Judges"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The attacks are not random. They seem designed to intimidate those of us who serve in this critical capacity. The threats and harassment are attacks on our democracy, on our system of government. And they ultimately risk undermining our Constitution and the rule of law.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I urge you to keep going, keep doing what is right for our country, and I do believe that history will vindicate your service.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson<\/a>, in remarks delivered<\/a> at a judges\u2019 conference in Puerto Rico, where she openly criticized Donald Trump without mentioning him by name, but referring to him as \u201cthe elephant in the room.\u201d Jackson continued, noting, \u201cOther judges have faced challenges like the ones we face today, and have prevailed.\u201d<\/em><\/strong> According to Politico<\/a>, the Supreme Court justice received a standing ovation.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Ketanji Brown Jackson Openly Denounces Trump\u2019s Attacks On Judges<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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(Photo by Win McNamee\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The attacks are not random. They seem designed to intimidate those of us who serve in this critical capacity. The threats and harassment are attacks on our democracy, on our system of government. And they ultimately risk undermining our Constitution and the rule of law.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I urge you to keep going, keep doing what is right for our country, and I do believe that history will vindicate your service.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson<\/a>, in remarks delivered<\/a> at a judges\u2019 conference in Puerto Rico, where she openly criticized Donald Trump without mentioning him by name, but referring to him as \u201cthe elephant in the room.\u201d Jackson continued, noting, \u201cOther judges have faced challenges like the ones we face today, and have prevailed.\u201d<\/em><\/strong> According to Politico<\/a>, the Supreme Court justice received a standing ovation.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Staci
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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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(Photo by Win McNamee\/Getty Images) Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The attacks are not random. They seem designed to intimidate those of us who serve in this critical capacity. The threats and harassment are attacks on our democracy, on our system of government. And they ultimately risk undermining our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":117579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Staci-Zaretsky-A23O7Q.jpeg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}