Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson temporarily halted an order requiring the Trump administration to make full Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Programme (SNAP) November payments by Friday. Her ruling paused some of the payments until the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit can decide the administration’s motion to block the order pending its appeal.Jackson wrote that “Given the First Circuit’s representations, an administrative stay is required to facilitate the First Circuit’s expeditious resolution of the pending stay motion.” She clarified that the stay does not reflect a ruling on the underlying legal merits but provides a temporary reprieve to the Trump administration, which went to the Supreme Court earlier on Friday evening. Jackson handles emergency appeals arising from the First Circuit by default.Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote on the social platform X, “Our attorneys will not stop fighting, day and night, to defend and advance President Trump’s agenda.”Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson served on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since her appointment by President Joe Biden in 2021. She was nominated as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in 2022 and took the oaths of office on June 30-2022. She had previously served on the US District Court for the District of Columbia from 2013 to 2021.Born in Washington, D.C. on September 14-1970, Jackson attended public schools until her family moved to Miami, Florida. She excelled in debate and speech competitions in high school. She enrolled at Harvard University in 1988 and graduated from Harvard-Radcliffe in 1992 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Government. She earned a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1996. Following law school, Jackson practised privately and completed three federal clerkships, including one for Associate Justice Stephen G Breyer at the Supreme Court of the United States. She worked for the US Sentencing Commission from 2003 to 2005, served as a federal public defender from 2005 to 2007 and returned as a commissioner in 2010. Jackson is married to Dr Patrick Jackson and they are the parents of two daughters.
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