Jackson doubles down on criticism of fellow justices over Louisiana redistricting case: 'Be better'

"Courts are apolitical, not supposed to be issuing rulings that are in the political realm," Jackson said Monday. "We have to be scrupulous about sticking to the principles and the rules that we apply in every case and not look as though we're doing something different in this kind of context."

"I think we have to be very constrained," she said. "My view was it would be a more neutral way to handle the matter to just stick with the rule that we always apply in situations like this."

Jackson did not make overt criticisms of her fellow justices, but she did suggest the Court's latest action contributes to a perception that the Court was no longer impartial.

"[There are] real world consequences that are occurring, and no one really has a clear sense of why it's happening or what the Court's reasoning is. So I just think we can and should be better," she said.

Though the justices acknowledged that compliance with the Voting Rights Act can be considered by states as a compelling interest in redistricting, they said that it did not require Louisiana to add the creation of a second majority Black district, siding with a lower court that had also blocked the state's use of the map.