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“Public confidence is really all the judiciary has,” she said at
a talk before the American Law Institute in Washington, D.C.
“Everyone believes the court system is outside the political
sphere. I think that means it's incumbent on us to do things, to
act in ways, that shore up public confidence,” she said.
Polling has shown public trust in the Supreme Court at historic
lows in recent years, and Chief Justice John Roberts has
separately bemoaned a perception that the justices are
“political actors," calling it a misunderstanding.
Jackson has become a frequent dissenter on the Supreme Court,
joining her liberal colleagues last month to oppose the 6-3
decision that hollowed out the Voting Rights Act and later
writing for herself to protest an order allowing Louisiana to
use new maps even though early primary voting had already begun.
She said the court had “spawned chaos” amid a fierce nationwide
redistricting battle.
Three of her conservative colleagues on the court forcefully
disagreed, calling her criticism “baseless" and saying
accusations of partisanship aren't justified. The alternative,
they wrote, would have been to allow an election under a map
found to be unconstitutional.
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