diff --git a/pandas/core/internals/concat.py b/pandas/core/internals/concat.py
index 0592db8ad608d..8c3a754a24447 100644
--- a/pandas/core/internals/concat.py
+++ b/pandas/core/internals/concat.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-import copy
+import copy as stdlib_copy
 import itertools
 from typing import (
     TYPE_CHECKING,
@@ -691,7 +691,7 @@ def _trim_join_unit(join_unit: JoinUnit, length: int) -> JoinUnit:
     else:
         extra_block = join_unit.block
 
-        extra_indexers = copy.copy(join_unit.indexers)
+        extra_indexers = stdlib_copy.copy(join_unit.indexers)
         extra_indexers[0] = extra_indexers[0][length:]
         join_unit.indexers[0] = join_unit.indexers[0][:length]
 
diff --git a/pandas/core/reshape/merge.py b/pandas/core/reshape/merge.py
index 74a1051825820..76dc8c71af5cc 100644
--- a/pandas/core/reshape/merge.py
+++ b/pandas/core/reshape/merge.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 """
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-import copy
+import copy as stdlib_copy
 import datetime
 from functools import partial
 import string
@@ -1637,7 +1637,7 @@ def get_join_indexers(
 
     lkey, rkey, count = _factorize_keys(lkey, rkey, sort=sort, how=how)
     # preserve left frame order if how == 'left' and sort == False
-    kwargs = copy.copy(kwargs)
+    kwargs = stdlib_copy.copy(kwargs)
     if how in ("left", "right"):
         kwargs["sort"] = sort
     join_func = {
diff --git a/pandas/io/json/_json.py b/pandas/io/json/_json.py
index d6c154962ad83..19b0789a799bd 100644
--- a/pandas/io/json/_json.py
+++ b/pandas/io/json/_json.py
@@ -21,7 +21,10 @@
 
 import numpy as np
 
-from pandas._libs import json
+from pandas._libs.json import(
+    loads,
+    dumps,
+)
 from pandas._libs.tslibs import iNaT
 from pandas._typing import (
     CompressionOptions,
@@ -73,10 +76,6 @@
 
 FrameSeriesStrT = TypeVar("FrameSeriesStrT", bound=Literal["frame", "series"])
 
-loads = json.loads
-dumps = json.dumps
-
-
 # interface to/from
 @overload
 def to_json(