Liberal Justices Scorch Birthright Citizenship Opinion In Foreboding Dissent | HuffPost Latest News

Sotomayor, writing first, accused the government of engaging in "gamesmanship" that threatens the foundational rule of law… 

"Today, the threat is to birthright citizenship. Tomorrow, a different administration may try to seize firearms from law-abiding citizens or prevent people of certain faiths from gathering to worship." 

She closed by accusing the court of complicity in mocking the U.S. Constitution…

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/scotus-birthright-decision-dissent_n_685ea633e4b0bc17d54c6b83

 

Sonia Sotomayor Does Not Hold Back Grilling Trump’s Lawyer In Birthright citizenship case

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XPWCxItqQg

 

Sotomayor says immunity ruling makes a president ‘king above the law’

"Orders the Navy's Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune. 

 "Let the President violate the law, let him exploit the trappings of his office for personal gain, let him use his official power for evil ends. Because if he knew that he may one day face liability for breaking the law, he might not be as bold and fearless as we would like him to be. That is the majority's message today. 

 "Even if these nightmare scenarios never play out, and I pray they never do, the damage has been done. The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/01/sonia-sotomayor-dissent-trump-immunity-case

'With fear for our democracy, I dissent': Justice Sotomayor slams majority's ruling

Former Acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal joins Katy Tur to discuss Justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissent that blasted the majority's opinion, saying the "stakes are astronomical" in November.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJkKQECj0_g

Sotomayor's biting dissent: Ruling rolls back 'decades of precedent and momentous progress'

"Entrenched racial inequality remains a reality today," Sotomayor said. "That is true for society writ large and, more specifically, for Harvard and the University of North Carolina (UNC), two institutions with a long history of racial exclusion." 

"Ignoring race will not equalize a society that is racially unequal," she continued. "What was true in the 1860s, and again in 1954, is true today: Equality requires acknowledgment of inequality."

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4073495-sotomayors-biting-dissent-ruling-rolls-back-decades-of-precedent-and-momentous-progress/

Opinion | The Supreme Court decision about the praying football coach was wrong - The Washington Post

"Today's decision is particularly misguided," Sotomayor wrote, "because it elevates the religious rights of a school official, who voluntarily accepted public employment and the limits that public employment entails, over those of his students, who are required to attend school and who this Court has long recognized are particularly vulnerable and deserving of protection."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/03/scotus-praying-football-coach-wrong/

Sotomayor: SCOTUS Decision Backing Coach Prayer 'Misconstrues the Facts'

…In his opinion, Gorsuch wrote that the coach, Joe Kennedy, led a "quiet, personal prayer." But in her dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Kennedy's prayers weren't as minor as the court's opinion claimed. 

 "The record reveals that Kennedy had a longstanding practice of conducting demonstrative prayers on the 50-yard line of the football field. Kennedy consistently invited others to join his prayers and for years led student athletes in prayer at the same time and location," Sotomayor wrote. "The Court ignores this history."…

https://www.businessinsider.com/sotomayor-supreme-court-decision-backing-coach-prayer-misconstrues-facts-2022-6

Opinion | Justice Sotomayor chose her word carefully - The Washington Post

"What are the advancements in medicine" that could justify abandoning Roe v. Wade , she pressed — and proceeded to lecture that there have been none that are scientifically valid. "So when does the life of a woman and putting her at risk enter the calculus?" she asked, reeling off statistics on the far greater risk to women, especially poor women, in giving birth than in terminating a pregnancy...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/03/stench-sotomayor-court-abortion/

Sotomayor pens scathing dissent of Texas abortion ban: "Justices have opted to bury their heads in the sand" - CBS News

"The Texas State Legislature has deputized the state's citizens as bounty hunters, offering them cash prizes for civilly prosecuting their neighbors' medical procedures," Sotomayor wrote…

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-abortion-law-supreme-court-sotomayor-dissent/

Sotomayor calls out Kavanaugh for breaking his promise to death row inmates.

… It appears that Sotomayor, like Justice Elena Kagan, is fed up with Kavanaugh's habit of posturing as a moderate, then voting like a reactionary. When the stakes are low, Kavanaugh knows how to sound like a reasonable, empathetic centrist. But when an actual person's rights are on the line, Kavanaugh's vote is nowhere to be found...

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/05/sotomayor-kavanaugh-supreme-court-death-penalty.html

'This is not justice': supreme court liberals slam Trump's federal executions

..."There can be no 'justice on the fly' in matters of life and death," Sotomayor added. "Yet the court has allowed the United States to execute 13 people in six months under a statutory scheme and regulatory protocol that have received inadequate scrutiny, without resolving the serious claims the condemned individuals raised."...

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2021/jan/16/supreme-court-sotomayor-breyer-trump-federal-executions

Justice Sotomayor writes a devastating rebuke of her conservative colleagues’ callousness and fealty to Trump – Raw Story

Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a devastating conclusion to a dissenting opinion released Friday, drawing attention to her conservative colleagues’ callousness toward inmates facing the death penalty and contrasting it with their excessive fealty to President Donald Trump. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/justice-sotomayor-writes-a-devastating-rebuke-of-her-conservative-colleagues-callousness-and-fealty-to-trump/

Sotomayor’s brutal dissent unmasks an ugly truth about Trump - The Washington Post: Opinion

The Supreme Court allows Trump's bad faith approach to governing to score a win.....
https://beta.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/12/sotomayors-brutal-dissent-unmasks-an-ugly-truth-about-trump/

Justice Sotomayor warns the Supreme Court is doing “extraordinary” favors for Trump - Vox

The Trump administration thinks the court is its personal fixer. The court isn’t doing much to disabuse it of this idea.

https://apple.news/AqXyBZ-8kTo-sdMUZsgfv8Q

Sen. Jeff Sessions: Justice Sonia Sotomayor Isn’t Religious Enough to Do Her Job Well

Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, sat for a panel discussion this week during the Republican National Convention and criticized Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor for her alleged irreligiosity:

The senator recalled one quote from Sotomayor that, he said, “still makes the hair stand on my neck.” He explained: “She said there is no objectivity, just a series of perspectives.” He suggested that the problem may be that Sotomayer [sic] and other judges aren’t sufficiently religious: “If you have secularization in the world and don’t believe in a higher being, maybe you don’t believe there is any truth.”

There’s so much to unpack here....
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/07/24/sen-jeff-sessions-justice-sonia-sotomayor-isnt-religious-enough-to-do-her-job-well/

Sotomayor's Blistering SCOTUS Dissent Warns America Is Turning Into a Prison State

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor strongly disagreed with the majority as she passionately denounced a ruling on unreasonable search and seizures.

A 5-3 majority ruled that prosecutors may present evidence unlawfully collected by police officers to reverse a Utah Supreme Court decision, and Justice Clarence Thomas, who wrote the majority opinion, argued that “the costs of exclusion outweighs its deterrent benefits.”

Sotomayor and Justice Elena Kagan each wrote a dissent, and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg joined portions of each....
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/sotomayor-dissent-america-turning-prison-state

Justice Sotomayor Issues Dire Warning About What The Police Can Do To Black And Brown Americans

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that police can still arrest someone for an outstanding warrant even if they had no right to stop the person in the first place.

The opinion, authored by Justice Clarence Thomas, reverses a Utah Supreme Court order to suppress evidence discovered by a police officer during an illegal stop. After getting an anonymous tip about unspecified drug activity at a house, Officer Douglas Fackrell monitored the house for several days and ultimately decided to stop a random visitor to the house. That unlucky visitor turned out to be Edward Strieff. Fackrell had no reason to stop Strieff, yet he asked for identification and discovered a minor traffic violation on his record. Fackrell arrested him for the outstanding warrant and searched him, finding a bag of methamphetamine....
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/06/20/3790300/sotomayor-dissent-illegal-stops/