SCOTUS Justice Slams Colleagues as She Dissents Solo

Jacquelyn Martin/Pool via Reuters Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson blasted her colleagues in a fierce dissent on Thursday over a decision limiting how federal prisoners can seek early release. Jackson, who was appointed by the U.S. Supreme Court by former President Joe Biden in 2022, was the sole dissenter to a decision that found that alleged invalidities of a conviction are not a valid basis for compassionate release. The court’s conservative majority, led by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, argued that federal prisoners cannot use compassionate release motions—which authorize district courts to permit reductions of federal prison sentences for “extraordinary and compelling reasons”—to challenge the validity of their convictions. Read more at The Daily Beast.

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