Political Quotes

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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Jul 2, 2025

The Court’s decision is nothing less than an open invitation for the Government to bypass the Constitution.

motherjones.com
Jul 1, 2025

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.

msnbc.com
Jun 30, 2025

No matter how illegal a law or policy, courts can never simply tell the executive to stop enforcing it against anyone.

thehill.com
Jun 30, 2025

Books expressing implicit support for patriotism, women’s rights, interfaith marriage, consumption of meat, immodest dress, and countless other topics may conflict with sincerely held religious beliefs.

slate.com
Jun 30, 2025

a grave and unsupported diminution of the judicial power of equity

thehill.com
Jun 30, 2025

would be well advised to file promptly class-action suits and to request temporary injunctive relief for the putative class pending class certification.

msnbc.com
Jun 30, 2025

In dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor masterfully exposed Alito’s extralegal interpretive maneuvers.

slate.com
Jun 30, 2025

By retreating from meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters most, the Court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims.

newsweek.com
Jun 30, 2025

Thus, the majority subjects a law that plainly discriminates on the basis of sex to mere rational-basis review.

newsweek.com
Jun 30, 2025

This Court endorses the radical proposition that the President is harmed, irreparably, whenever he cannot do something he wants to do, even if what he wants to do is break the law.

truthout.org
Jun 30, 2025

The Government’s conduct in this litigation poses an extraordinary threat to the rule of law.

msnbc.com
Jun 30, 2025

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

truthout.org
Jun 30, 2025

We, as a Nation and a court of law, should be better than this.

msnbc.com
Jun 30, 2025

I cannot join so gross an abuse of the Court’s equitable discretion.

msnbc.com
Jun 30, 2025

This Court’s precedent establishes beyond a shade of doubt that the Executive Order is unconstitutional.

truthout.org
Jun 28, 2025

This is not the first time the Court closes its eyes to noncompliance, nor, I fear, will it be the last.

cnn.com
Jun 28, 2025

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

cnn.com
Jun 27, 2025

The Court’s decision is nothing less than an open invitation for the Government to bypass the Constitution.

slate.com
Jun 27, 2025

Few constitutional questions can be answered by resort to the text of the Constitution alone.

slate.com
Jun 27, 2025

rewarding lawlessness

msnbc.com
Jun 27, 2025

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

slate.com
Jun 27, 2025

To get such relief, the Government would have to show that the Order is likely constitutional, an impossible task

msnbc.com
Jun 27, 2025

The other shoe has dropped on executive immunity.

cnn.com
Jun 27, 2025

It is inconceivable that learning should be shackled to a moment in time.

huffpost.com
Jun 27, 2025

With the stroke of a pen, the president has made a 'solemn mockery' of our Constitution.

cbsnews.com

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