Gorsuch, Jackson Form Unusual Alliance Against Government Power

Neil Gorsuch and Ketanji Brown Jackson are justices on opposite sides of the Supreme Court’s ideological line who have teamed up in four opinions so far this term.

The duo has stood alone in one majority decision and three concurring opinions, including in Thursday’s Tyler v. Hennepin County. Gorsuch wrote separately to agree with the court’s decision to side with a woman who claimed her local government unconstitutionally profited when it sold her home to settle her tax debt and kept the surplus proceeds. Jackson was the only other justice to sign onto that concurrence.

Court watchers say the ...