“Attack on our society”: Supreme Court Justice Jackson defends judiciary
In a May 12 speech at Southern Methodist University, reported by the Baltimore Sun on May 13, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warned that political attacks on judges and the broader judicial system are “really an attack on our society,” and urged Americans to defend judicial independence. Her remarks came as President Trump publicly criticized judges who ruled against his tariff policies and renewed calls to impeach district court judges. The Sun’s coverage notes that public confidence in the Supreme Court recently fell to a quarter-century low, with only about 22 percent of registered voters expressing a great deal or quite a bit of confidence in the Court — a backdrop against which Jackson’s appeal to civic defense of the judiciary takes on additional weight.