Liberal Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson gave an ominous answer when asked at an Indianapolis Bar Association event on Thursday, "What keeps you up at night?"
According to CNN, Jackson responded, "I would say the state of our democracy," adding, "I am really very interested in getting people to focus and to invest and to pay attention to what is happening in our country and in our government.”
Jackson did not go into detail about "what, specifically, concerned her about the state of democracy," CNN reported, "though she has recently written a series of scathing dissents critical of both President Donald Trump’s administration and the Supreme Court’s review of cases involving its policies."
Jackson wrote the dissent this week in the court's decision to allow Trump's mass firings to continue in the federal workforce. “For some reason, this court sees fit to step in now and release the president’s wrecking ball at the outset of this litigation," Jackson wrote. "In my view, this decision is not only truly unfortunate but also hubristic and senseless.”
Jackson also wrote a "scorching" dissent in last month's birthright citizenship decision, preventing lower courts from issuing injunctions that blocked Trump's policies.
“Perhaps the degradation of our rule-of-law regime would happen anyway,” Jackson wrote. “But this court’s complicity in the creation of a culture of disdain for lower courts, their rulings, and the law (as they interpret it) will surely hasten the downfall of our governing institutions, enabling our collective demise.”
Jackson signed off, citing her “deep disillusionment.”