If people actually believe that it`s all political, how will we survive? How will the court survive?
Sonia Sotomayor
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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.
When does the life of a woman and putting her at risk enter the calculus? Meaning, right now, forcing women who are poor, and that`s 75 percent of the population, and much higher percentage of those women in Mississippi, who elect…
The right of a woman to choose, the right to control her own body has been clearly set since Casey and never challenged.
Now, the sponsors of this bill, the House bill, in Mississippi, said we’re doing it because we have new justices. Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are…
Now the sponsors of this bill, the House bill, in Mississippi, said we`re doing it because we have new justices. Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are…
The sponsors of this bill, the House bill in Mississippi, said, we`re doing it because we have new justices.
the promise of future adjudication offers cold comfort for Texas women seeking abortion care who are entitled to relief now. These women will suffer personal harm from delaying their medical care and as their pregnancies progress, they may…
the impact is catastrophic. I cannot capture the totality of this harm in these pages.
The promise of future adjudications offers cold comfort, however, for Texas women seeking abortion care who are entitled to relief now.
The act is a breathtaking act of defiance -- correct -- of the Constitution, of this Court`s precedents, and of the rights of women seeking abortion throughout Texas.
You can`t have offered this as a precedent for any state that wants to curtail constitutional rights to private enforcement, right?
the court should not be so content to ignore its constitutional obligation to protect not only the rights of women but also the sanctity of its precedent, and the rule of law, period. I dissent, period.





