May’s Dishonorable Judicial Conduct Award Reaches the Highest Court in the Land
The article discusses Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissent in the case Chiles v. Salazar, which has earned her the Dishonorable Judicial Conduct Award for May. The case revolves around a Colorado law that restricts counselors from providing certain types of therapy, which the Supreme Court found to violate the First Amendment. Jackson's dissent highlights her departure from her previous statements on originalism and judicial philosophy during her confirmation hearings.
- ▪Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson received the Dishonorable Judicial Conduct Award for her dissent in Chiles v. Salazar.
- ▪The case involved a Colorado law prohibiting certain counseling practices labeled as 'conversion therapy' for minors.
- ▪The Supreme Court ruled that the law violated the First Amendment by restricting a counselor's speech.
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May’s Dishonorable Judicial Conduct Award Reaches the Highest Court in the Land Thomas Jipping & Hans von Spakovsky | 2:18 PM on May 27, 2026 AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File We’ve been awarding our “Dishonorable Judicial Conduct Award” for several months now to both federal district court and U.S. appeals court judges. But now we have finally reached the U.S. Supreme Court and its newest member, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, for her lone dissent in Chiles v. Salazar. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_3"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_3"]]) }); Jackson seems determined to put her past behind her, or at least some of the embarrassing things she said (for her liberal supporters) at her March 2022 confirmation…
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