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Supreme Court’s junior justice goes on solo tear as Trump fights put her at odds with the bench
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson stood out from her colleagues this week when she broke with them to rail against the high court’s decision to fast-track its landmark order dismantling a key provision in the Voting Rights Act.
But Jackson’s solo dissent was far from the first time the Biden-appointed justice has been on an island, as she has routinely blasted the court for not asserting more judicial authority over President Donald Trump’s executive actions and drawn rebukes from her colleagues for taking what they have viewed as flawed positions.
Ideological divides over high-profile cases have been common. The trio of liberals has remained unified against the Trump administration by opposing decisions, including on the interim docket, to curb universal injunctions, allow states to ban transgender medical treatments for minors, permit Trump to fire members of independent agencies, authorize the government to cancel immigrants’ temporary protected status and more.
But even in some of those cases, Jackson goes on solo diatribes, highlighting a deeper internal divide within the liberal bloc.
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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks to the 2025 Supreme Court Fellows Program at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 13, 2025. (JACQUELYN MARTIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Below are five recent times Jackson gave lone opinions.
1. Louisiana redistricting judgment
The Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s map last month, finding 6-3 it contained an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
Upon request, the Supreme Court also decided 8-1 to fast-track the landmark decision — handing it down immediately rather than in roughly a month like it usually does — allowing several red states to more quickly attempt to implement new congressional lines after the high court weakened Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by limiting the role race may play in congressional redistricting.
Jackson, the bench’s most junior justice, broke with her eight colleagues in that decision, saying the court improperly «[dove] into the fray» of active elections by handing its judgment down immediately.
«Not content to have decided the law, it now takes steps to influence its implementation,» Jackson wrote.
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Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, wrote a scathing concurrence for the sole purpose of ripping apart Jackson’s dissent, saying her claims were «groundless and utterly irresponsible.»
2. Universal injunctions
The Supreme Court is still weighing Trump’s signature plan to severely limit birthright citizenship, but it first entertained the subject last year by addressing how lower courts across the country uniformly issued nationwide injunctions against the plan. The high court decided 6-3 to ban such injunctions but left room for judges and plaintiffs to deploy other methods when seeking widespread relief.
Jackson gave a rogue, separate dissent in the case, drawing eyebrow-raising jabs from Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett delivered remarks at the Seventh Circuit Judicial Conference at the Swissotel hotel in Chicago, Illinois, on Aug. 18, 2025. (Getty Images)
«We will not dwell on Justice Jackson’s argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries’ worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself,» Barrett wrote in the court’s opinion in 2025. «We observe only this: Justice Jackson decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary.»
Jackson wrote that nationwide injunctions should be permissible because the courts should not allow the president to «violate the Constitution.»
Barrett disagreed.
«She offers a vision of the judicial role that would make even the most ardent defender of judicial supremacy blush,» Barrett wrote.
Justices of the US Supreme Court pose for their official photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on October 7, 2022. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)
3. National Institutes of Health grants
The high court fractured last August in dual 5–4 decisions that allowed the National Institutes of Health to cancel nearly $800 million in research grants.
Jackson, in one of her most memorable one-person dissents, appeared to boil over with frustration, observing that the majority «bends over backward to accommodate» the Trump administration.
«This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist. Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules,» Jackson wrote. «We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.»
Some of the canceled grants were geared toward research on diversity, equity and inclusion; COVID-19; and gender identity. Jackson argued the grants went further and that «life-saving biomedical research» was at stake.
4. Colorado conversion therapy case
When the Supreme Court sided 8-1 with a Christian counselor who challenged Colorado’s ban on counseling minors about sexual orientation and gender identity — which the state barred as conversion therapy — Jackson was the lone dissenter, warning that «to be completely frank, no one knows what will happen now.»
Jackson said the key free speech decision defied «treatment standards» and bucked the medical profession, leading an unlikely colleague, Justice Elena Kagan, to openly reject her dissent.
Kagan, an Obama appointee, said Jackson’s view «rests on reimagining—and in that way collapsing—the well-settled distinction between viewpoint-based and other content-based speech restrictions.»
5. Reasonable suspicion for police
In a lower profile case about police stops, Jackson conspicuously found in April that the high court overstepped its authority by improperly meddling in a lower court’s assessment of how Washington, D.C., police decided to stop a man in a suspicious vehicle.
The Supreme Court reversed the decision by the lower court, saying it should have weighed the «totality of the circumstances» surrounding the vehicle and approved of an officer’s decision to briefly detain the man.
The decision was 7-2, but Justice Sonia Sotomayor opposed the ruling while also opting against joining Jackson’s dissent. Jackson accused the majority of trying to «wordsmith» and interfere with a typically routine evaluation of a police stop.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson are pictured together. (Getty Images)
«I cannot fathom why that kind of factbound determination warranted correction by this Court,» Jackson wrote.
Jonathan Turley, George Washington University law professor and Fox News contributor, said in an op-ed this month that Jackson has «quickly developed a radical and chilling jurisprudence.»
Despite establishing herself as an outlier, Jackson also has a swathe of supporters from civil rights groups to celebrities. She has been showered with praise on «The View,» nominated for a Grammy for her audiobook and drawn encouragement from Democratic lawmakers.
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Jackson said during her appearance this year on «The View» that «criticism is part of the job.»
«Dissents are an opportunity for the justices who disagree with the majority to really describe their view of the law but also their concerns,» Jackson said, adding that «you hope that your view will prevail in the long run.»
Fox News Digital reached out to the Supreme Court’s press office for comment.
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Explosive report unearths prominent union money trail labeled a ‘stunning betrayal’ of MAGA members
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Vice President JD Vance and some House Republicans are pushing union-friendly legislation, signaling a new era for the Republican Party. Paul Gigot discusses the Railway Safety Act and mandatory arbitration for labor contracts, viewed as creating union jobs without enhancing safety.
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FIRST ON FOX — A major railroad union is under fire after a watchdog report alleged its leadership funneled money to support Democratic causes that opposed the Trump administration, undermining many of its own MAGA members while also spending millions on questionable expenses.
Leaders of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Division (BMWED-IBT), one of the nation’s largest rail unions representing 37,000 members, are accused of using union resources to support Democratic priorities through their spending, according to a report released by the American Accountability Foundation (AAF).
«The leadership’s progressive alignment is a stunning betrayal of the large proportion of its working-class members who support the MAGA agenda and President Trump’s leadership,» the report said.
«BMWE’s one-sided partisanship is evidenced by its attacks on the Trump agenda and its broad support for Democratic causes.»
NATION’S 2 LARGEST TEACHERS UNIONS FUNNELED NEARLY $50M TO LEFT-WING GROUPS, WATCHDOG REPORT SAYS
President Donald Trump sits at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca Bloomberg)
The report described the union’s leadership as «leftward bent,» citing attacks on Trump during his first term, including claims he was «undoing Obama’s legacy» and that his deregulation efforts were «dangerous.»
Additionally, the report found the union supported left-leaning causes such as Black Lives Matter, abortion and universal health care, while opposing Trump’s «One Big Beautiful Bill» and maintaining ties to Democratic organizations and prominent Democrats, including Reps. Jesús «Chuy» García, D-Ill., and Dina Titus, D-Nev.
The report added that the union’s leaders have displayed a «stunning betrayal» and abandoned «the will» of their large MAGA member base, underscoring a growing disconnect between organized labor leadership and many «rank-and-file» union members.
«While the broad support for the Trump-Vance agenda by industrial union members has been widely reported on, news of this nearly decade-old realignment has apparently yet to reach the leadership of the Brotherhood of Maintenance and Way Employees Division (BMWE) union whose dues-paying members repeatedly cast ballots for President Trump,» the report said.
Beyond the union’s political alignment, the report examined BMWED-IBT’s spending practices.
LARGEST PUBLIC-SECTOR UNIONS SPENT EYE-POPPING AMOUNT ON LEFT-WING POLITICS — 86% FUNDED BY MEMBER DUES
A large-scale commercial inland cargo container and railroad yard in Cincinnati, Ohio. (iStock)
The union allegedly sent more than $441,098 to «left-wing» organizations, including the Center for American Progress, a leading progressive think tank; more than $100,000 to the National Democratic Club across multiple years; and the National Teamsters Hispanic Caucus, according to the report.
The report said both the National Democratic Club and the National Teamsters Hispanic Caucus are known for their stances against the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
The report further examines the Teamsters’ Democrat, Republican, Independent Voter Education (D.R.I.V.E.) PAC, which BMWED-IBT joined after its political action committee merged into the PAC in 2004, saying the PAC heavily favored Democrats in its political spending by donating about $13.76 million to Democratic Party committees compared with about $729,846 to Republican committees.
Recent polling shows that labor unions like BMWED-IBT consist of a large number of workers who support Trump, including Teamsters polling that shows a 60-40 breakdown in favor of Trump and exit polling from the 2024 election that shows working-class voters without a college degree went 56% for Trump and 42% for Harris.
Not only did the report point to the union’s Democratic associations, but also what it described as «massive wasteful spending,» claiming that roughly two-thirds of headquarters employees earned six-figure salaries in 2024, while the average BMWED-IBT member earned $61,692.
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The report said BMWED-IBT President Tony D. Cardwell earned $233,492 and Secretary-Treasurer Dale Bogart earned $206,709 that year, adding members of BMWED-IBT Local Lodge 1020, a local union, pay nearly $100 per month in dues «that goes to subsidizing the salaries of union leadership.»
Additionally, the report alleges BMWED-IBT spent more than $18 million from 2017 to 2024, including $7.25 million on hotels and conferences, $5.44 million on legal fees, $2.71 million on promotional items and merchandise and $2.11 million on travel.
The union allegedly spent $2.33 million at casinos and resorts alone during the same period, including a $522,281 payment to Caesars Entertainment in 2023, according to the report, which argues the spending shows leadership’s priorities are not in the right place.
«While hardworking rank-and-file members of the Brotherhood of Maintenance and Way Employees Division Union are busting their backs, making an average of $60K per year, woke union bosses live like kings and have wasted millions in union dues on progressive activism, hotel stays and casino trips,» AAF President Tom Jones told Fox News Digital.
«The BMWE Union is completely out of touch with its members and is actively betraying the very Trump-supporting workers it claims to support.»
A Black Lives Matter flag is displayed during a demonstration in Los Angeles. (Stanton Sharpe/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
The union pushed back strongly against the report in a statement to Fox News Digital.
«Since taking over leadership of the BMWED-IBT in 2022, our union has operated at a budget surplus,» Cardwell said. «In fact, it was one of our most prioritized goals to become fiscally responsible and diligent stewards of the memberships’ money. We are accomplishing this goal.»
Cardwell said the union’s work «on Capitol Hill or in any statehouse nationwide» is focused on «securing the best policy and protections» for members, saying that it donates to lawmakers from either party who support railroad workers because «party affiliation is not a determining factor for our political arm – support of working railroaders is the only thing that matters.»
«No dues dollars are allocated to political lobbying,» Cardwell said. «The only money donated to politicians comes from our Teamster PAC, which is and has always been voluntarily funded. It is vital that we have a voice in the political realm and this is how we accomplish it, with impartiality and the goal of achieving the best policies and legislation possible for our members.»
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Despite the union’s Democratic ties, BMWED-IBT has collaborated with Republicans on key rail safety legislation, including Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., who recently introduced the Secure Tracks Act, which would require railroad companies to use both human and automated track inspections.
Cardwell said the union has «garnered more Republican support on the Hill than in the past» and that its relationship with President Donald Trump «has been strengthened,» saying Vice President JD Vance also supported rail safety legislation while serving in the U.S. Senate representing Ohio.
A review of the BMWED-IBT’s social media accounts by Fox News Digital shows the union reposting and applauding Trump and Vance’s push for the Railway Safety Act, legislation the union has fought for after a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, three years ago, causing a major chemical spill.
Earlier this year, the American Accountability Foundation released a similar report involving the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, one of the nation’s oldest labor unions, alleging the organization is run by leaders who are endorsing and promoting Democratic policies and candidates despite a membership base that data suggests largely supports the president.
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H5N1 bird flu confirmed in Australia for the first time, meaning virus has now reached every continent
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The first case of H5N1 bird flu has been confirmed in Australia, meaning the virus has now found its way to every continent.
The Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry said the virus was found in a single seabird, a brown skua, near Esperance on the south coast of Western Australia, in Cape Le Grand National Park.
Australia’s Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development said it was «responding as part of a nationally coordinated plan with the Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and stakeholders across [Western Australia] to reduce the impact of this disease.»
The outbreak in the U.S. has left millions of birds dead and has caused grocery store hikes and shortages, most notably with eggs.
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The first case of H5N1 bird flu has been confirmed in Australia, meaning the virus has now found its way to every continent. (Dado Ruvic/Reuters)
The spread to humans is rare.
«We all knew we couldn’t be bird flu-free forever,» Australia’s federal Agricultural Secretary Julie Collins said in a press conference on Saturday.
Jackie Jarvis, Western Australia’s agricultural minister, said in a press conference on Friday: «As a result of WA’s established early detection system, appropriate action was taken, including isolating the bird and collecting samples for testing.»
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She added, «this shows that Australia’s and Western Australia’s preparedness measures have worked. We are pleased to see the surveillance, and reporting system working as intended, with the bird reported through to DPIRD for further investigation.»
A brown skua stands on a mossy stone on Macquarie Island, Sub Antarctic, administered by Tasmania, Australia. (Auscape/Universal Images Group)
By Saturday, Jarvis said further testing confirmed the strain that she said was consistent with bird flu found in the remote Australian territories of Heard Island and McDonald Islands near Antarctica, which devastated the wildlife there.
Last year, around 13,000 of a population of 17,000 elephant seal pups died there in just a few months after being exposed.
The outbreak in the U.S. has left millions of birds dead and has caused grocery store hikes and shortages, most notably with eggs. (Emily Elconin/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The islands are wildlife sanctuaries.
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«Importantly, there have been no detections in poultry and there is no evidence of mass mortality,» Jarvis said of the mainland case.
A second case of another migratory bird is also suspected near Esperance.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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