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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.

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Sep 2, 2021

This is untenable. It cannot be the case that a state can evade federal judicial scrutiny by outsourcing the enforcement of unconstitutional laws to its citizenry.

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Sep 2, 2021

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.

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Sep 1, 2021

Flagrantly unconstitutional, that’s what Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor calls this Texas abortion ban, which is now law.

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Mar 2, 2021

If you just can’t vote for those reasons and your vote is not being counted, you’ve been denied the right to vote, haven’t you?

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Jan 17, 2021

the government gives no compelling reason why it suddenly cannot wait a few weeks. This is not justice. There could be no justice on the fly in matters of life and death.

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Oct 14, 2019

it has effectively become an entity that no one can control.

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Sep 3, 2018

In Korematsu the Court gave a pass to an odious, gravely injurious racial classification authored by an Executive order and basically the Court invoked an ill-defined national security threat to justify an exclusionary policy in sweeping…

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Mar 19, 2017

What you want is for us to tell you how, as a judicial nominee, we are going to rule on the important issues you find vexing. Any self-respecting judge who comes in with an agenda that would permit that judge to tell you how they will vote…

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Mar 19, 2017

To cast serious doubt on longstanding precedent is a step we historically take only with the greatest caution and reticence.

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Dec 31, 2016

In addition to being near instant, death by shooting may also be comparatively painless.

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Mar 6, 2013

My mom worked six days a week most of her adult life to be able to afford to come here. And if it hadn't been for the generosity of the church, we would not have been able to afford this.

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Mar 6, 2013

Doubtful. Would I and my brother and I have been able to resist the war of drugs in the surrounding schools? Who knows.

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