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United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Coverage of United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in the Nexus archive.
- Jackson scolds colleagues in solo dissent after court jumps into routine police-stop case
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented alone in a Supreme Court case where the majority upheld a police stop under the Fourth Amendment, criticizing the Court for overstepping in correcting a lower court's factual evaluation. The 7-2 decision emphasized police officers' broad discretion to consider 'totality of circumstances' in justifying stops, while Jackson argued for judicial restraint and defended the lower court's ruling.