On Monday, the court announced that it was tossing a case about whether Democratic lawmakers should be able to sue a government agency for documents related to Trump'sin Washington, D.C. Both sides had asked the justices to dismiss the lawsuit after the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case.
While all nine of the Supreme Court justices agreed that the case should be dropped, Jackson dissented on the way that the case was tossed out, saying that she would have done so using a different procedural mechanism. Monday's order vacated the D.C. Circuit Court's decision, sending the case back to the lower court with instructions to dismiss the case. Although Jackson agreed the case should be dismissed, she wanted to allow the circuit court's decision to stand, Alex Badas, a political scientist specializing in judicial politics, explained.
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson at the Capitol on February 7, 2023, in Washington, D.C. While Jackson agreed with the Supreme Court's recent decision to drop a case, she disagreed with the way it was tossed out."[Jackson's opinion] would make it a binding precedent for future cases that come up in the D.C.