This is not the first time the Court closes its eyes to noncompliance, nor, I fear, will it be the last.
Sonia Sotomayor
The Public Record
Sonia Sotomayor is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, having been nominated by President Barack Obama in 2009. She is the first Hispanic and Latina member of the Court. Sotomayor previously served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and as a district court judge for the Southern District of New York. Her judicial philosophy often emphasizes the importance of empathy and the impact of the law on the lives of individuals, particularly marginalized communities.
Each time this Court rewards noncompliance, it further erodes respect for courts and for the rule of law.
The Government thus openly flouted two court orders, including the one from which it now seeks relief.
The government has made clear in word and deed that it feels itself unconstrained by law, free to deport anyone anywhere without notice or an opportunity to be heard.
Apparently, the court finds the idea that thousands will suffer violence in farflung locales more palatable than the remote possibility that a district court exceeded its remedial powers.
Rather than allowing our lower court colleagues to manage this high-stakes litigation with the care and attention it plainly requires, this court now intervenes to grant the government emergency relief from an order it has repeatedly…
Transgender adolescents’ access to hormones and puberty blockers (known as gender-affirming care) is not a matter of mere cosmetic preference. To the contrary, access to care can be a question of life or death.
The court's willingness to do so here does irrevocable damage to the Equal Protection Clause and invites legislatures to engage in discrimination.
It also authorizes, without second thought, untold harm to transgender children and the parents and families who love them.
Anyone in search of evidence that transgender people face immense discrimination by the government need only look at what Donald Trump is doing in the present moment.





