Supreme Court Justices Kavanaugh, Jackson Publicly Disagree Over Emergency Docket

Justice Brett Kavanaugh defended the court’s handling of cases, while Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the court has ‘warped’ the process.

Snow falls outside of the Supreme Court in Washington on March 2, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Ketanji Brown Jackson clashed on March 9 over the court’s various emergency orders that have allowed President Donald Trump to pursue his policy agenda.

The setting was a federal courtroom in the nation’s capital, at an annual lecture honoring former federal judge and prosecutor Thomas Aquinas Flannery, who died in 2007.