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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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Jun 4, 2026

In addition to being wrong on the merits, the Court’s decision inflicts two grave harms on the public.

motherjones.com
Nov 5, 2025

You want to say tariffs are not taxes, but that’s exactly what they are. They are generating money from American citizens.

nytimes.com
Jul 14, 2025

It hands the Executive the power to repeal statutes by firing all those necessary to carry them out.

huffpost.com
Jul 14, 2025

Congress created the Department, and only Congress can abolish it.

huffpost.com
Jul 14, 2025

Equity does not support such an inequitable result.

newsweek.com
Jul 14, 2025

Because I cannot condone such abuse of our equitable authority, I respectfully dissent.

newsweek.com
Jul 14, 2025

The majority apparently deems it more important to free the Government from paying employees it had no right to fire than to avert these very real harms while the litigation continues.

newsweek.com
Jul 14, 2025

When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary's duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it.

newsweek.com
Jul 14, 2025

The President must take care that the laws are faithfully executed, not set out to dismantle them.

newsweek.com
Jul 9, 2025

Disability discrimination is 'most often the product, not of invidious animus, but rather of thoughtlessness and indifference—of benign neglect.'

slate.com
Jul 9, 2025

public schools offer to children of all faiths and backgrounds an education and an opportunity to practice living in our multicultural society.

slate.com
Jul 9, 2025

if we can opt out of even 'subtle' messages, chaos will reign and student learning will suffer.

slate.com
Jul 9, 2025

at once the symbol of our democracy and the most pervasive means for promoting our common destiny.

slate.com
Jul 9, 2025

Students with disabilities face daunting challenges on a daily basis and those challenges do not include having to satisfy a more stringent standard of proof.

slate.com
Jul 8, 2025

The President can’t restructure federal agencies inconsistently with congressional mandates.

msnbc.com
Jul 8, 2025

excuses (once again) the government’s undisguised contempt for the judiciary.

slate.com
Jul 8, 2025

I agree with Justice Jackson that the president cannot restructure federal agencies in a manner inconsistent with congressional mandates.

cnn.com
Jul 8, 2025

the Supreme Court on speed dial.

slate.com
Jul 3, 2025

What the government wants to do, concretely, is send the eight noncitizens it illegally removed from the United States from Djibouti to South Sudan, where they will be turned over to the local authorities without regard for the likelihood…

nbcnews.com
Jul 3, 2025

Today’s order clarifies only one thing: Other litigants must follow the rules, but the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial.

nbcnews.com
Jul 3, 2025

What the Government wants to do, concretely, is send the eight noncitizens it illegally removed from the United States from Djibouti to South Sudan, where they will be turned over to the local authorities without regard for the likelihood…

cbsnews.com
Jul 2, 2025

No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.

motherjones.com
Jul 2, 2025

strips federal courts of the ability to safeguard constitutional rights in the face of nationwide executive overreach.

msnbc.com
Jul 2, 2025

The damage to America’s public education system will be profound.

motherjones.com
Jul 2, 2025

No right is safe in a regime where courts cannot fully protect those before them.

msnbc.com

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