Barrett eviscerates Jackson, Sotomayor takes on a 'complicit' court in contentious final opinions
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Justice Barrett had pointed words for her Justice Jackson in her sharply worded majority opinion, accusing Jackson of taking an “extreme" position on the role of the courts.
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"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. "We observe only this: Justice Jackson decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary."
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