The Court’s decision is nothing less than an open invitation for the Government to bypass the Constitution.
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.
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.
No matter how illegal a law or policy, courts can never simply tell the executive to stop enforcing it against anyone.
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.
would be well advised to file promptly class-action suits and to request temporary injunctive relief for the putative class pending class certification.
In dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor masterfully exposed Alito’s extralegal interpretive maneuvers.
By retreating from meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters most, the Court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims.
Thus, the majority subjects a law that plainly discriminates on the basis of sex to mere rational-basis review.
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.
The Government’s conduct in this litigation poses an extraordinary threat to the rule of law.
This Court’s precedent establishes beyond a shade of doubt that the Executive Order is unconstitutional.
This is not the first time the Court closes its eyes to noncompliance, nor, I fear, will it be the last.
The Court’s decision is nothing less than an open invitation for the Government to bypass the Constitution.
Few constitutional questions can be answered by resort to the text of the Constitution alone.
To get such relief, the Government would have to show that the Order is likely constitutional, an impossible task
With the stroke of a pen, the president has made a 'solemn mockery' of our Constitution.





