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News Reporting· The Hill Published Aug 24, 2026

Jackson calls Supreme Court’s mail-in voting ruling a ‘Kafkaesque nightmare’

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Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Supreme Court’s junior liberal justice, excoriated her colleagues for lifting a block on President Trump’s mail-in voting executive order on Monday, saying it “needlessly injects chaos” into this year’s elections.

“It also lets another shoe drop in the Kafkaesque nightmare that our precedents have been steadily creating for certain plaintiffs who seek to bring election-related challenges,” Jackson wrote .

She didn’t sign on to the dissent authored by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, which was joined by Elena Kagan, the third member of the court’s liberal wing. Instead, Jackson penned 23 pages of her own, saying the case wasn’t a “close call.”

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