Ketanji Brown Jackson says Supreme Court justices "get along well"

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said Tuesday that the justices connected the tribunal "get on well" contempt their antithetic viewpoints and believes it's "a exemplary for learning however to disagree without being disagreeable." 

"The tribunal is precise bully astatine compartmentalizing, meaning that we absorption connected our work," she told "CBS Mornings." "We enactment precise hard. We travel up with our ain idiosyncratic opinions arsenic to however we deliberation astir the law." 

"We're benignant of ever reasoning astir the instrumentality successful antithetic ways. And truthful we person learned however to accommodate to being successful an situation with radical who person precise powerfully held but antithetic views," she said.

She said the justices arsenic a assemblage and arsenic a radical are "very collegial."

Ketanji Brown Jackson connected "CBS Mornings," Feb. 10, 2026. CBS News

Jackson became the archetypal Black pistillate to service connected the nation's highest tribunal erstwhile she was sworn successful astir 4 years ago. She has since emerged arsenic 1 of the court's strongest critics of President Trump. Her dissent successful past year's nationwide injunction case, which reined successful national judges' quality to contented sweeping orders and stemmed from Mr. Trump's enforcement bid seeking to end birthright citizenship, prompted an unusually crisp reply from Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Five different justices joined Barrett, who said Jackson's dissent "chooses a startling enactment of attack." 

When the tribunal yet ruled that the medication could determination guardant with Mr. Trump's plan, Jackson stood alone, saying the bid is "not lone genuinely unfortunate, but besides hubristic and senseless."

As the Supreme Court takes months to travel to decisions connected different hot-button issues, including Mr. Trump's tariffs, Jackson said "there are tons of nuanced ineligible issues that the tribunal has to thoroughly consider."

"We really deliberate implicit a play of clip wherever each of the justices decides however they consciousness astir the issues and writes, and it takes a portion to write," Jackson said. 

"We volition marque it through" 

In the latest variation of her publication "Lovely One" geared toward young adults, Jackson includes a code she gave astatine a statement tourney portion successful precocious schoolhouse successful 1987. She told "CBS Mornings" that the constituent of the code was to "really get radical to absorption connected the infinitesimal and effort to not beryllium truthful overwhelmed by the circumstance."

She believes this infinitesimal successful U.S. past is divided, but said "we've surely had different periods successful our past successful which we've been divided and we've travel done them."

"If radical truly absorption connected their ain values and the things that substance to them, if they put successful their communities and successful their loved ones, we volition marque it through," she added. 

Jan Crawford and Caitlin Yilek contributed to this report.