Since joining the bench, Justice Brown Jackson wrote a series of pointed dissents that challenge the conservative supermajority’s rulings in major cases. That includes a
29-page dissent that sharply criticized the court’s decision on affirmative action.
When she writes a dissent, who does she envision as the audience? The American public? Her fellow justices? Posterity?
“All of the above,” she said.
“Obviously you have not been able to persuade your colleagues about your view of the issue. So, to some extent, you are writing for the public so that they can understand the debate that the justices have had about the issue.”
Then you hope to be writing for posterity, she added, “because you would hope that eventually your point of view would prevail.”
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By Joshua Barajas,
@Josh_Barrage
Senior Editor, Digital
No Supreme Court justices are featured on U.S. currency today. But that’s not always been the case.
The portraits of two justices have been printed on bills. John Marshall appeared
on the $500 bill. Another justice was on a much more valuable bill.
Our question: Which Supreme Court justice was once depicted on the $10,000 bill?
Send your answers to
[email protected] or tweet using #PoliticsTrivia. The first correct answers will earn a shout-out next week.
Last week, we asked: Pennsylvania has been the birthplace to two U.S. presidents. Joe Biden is one, who was the other?
The answer: James Buchanan. The 15th U.S. president was born in Cove Gap, Pennsylvania.
Congratulations to our winners: Carmen McCoy and Sarah Bornstein!
And with folks firmly back from vacation, we can now announce the previous week’s winners — Anne Pokras and Mary Hobein — for correctly guessing that Rutherford B. Hayes was the most recent president whose last name ended in S.
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