Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during the Senate Judiciary Committee's confirmation hearing on her nomination to the U.

Last week, Chief Justice John Roberts released his 2025 Year End Report on the Federal Judiciary. Readers hoping to find therein the Chief Justice's take on an extraordinary year of confrontation between the federal district courts and the second Trump administration or an explanation for the Supreme Court's increased use of the emergency docket to stay lower court decisions enjoining the administration's most aggressive actions on personnel, funding, immigration, and more will be disappointed.