In addition to being wrong on the merits, the Court’s decision inflicts two grave harms on the public.
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.
After today, it is hard to call Alabama’s cynical gambit anything other than a success, and the Court’s rewarding of Alabama’s behavior anything other than a blow to the rule of law.
You want to say tariffs are not taxes, but that’s exactly what they are. They are generating money from American citizens.
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.
The President must take care that the laws are faithfully executed, not set out to dismantle them.
Because I cannot condone such abuse of our equitable authority, I respectfully dissent.
It hands the Executive the power to repeal statutes by firing all those necessary to carry them out.
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.
public schools offer to children of all faiths and backgrounds an education and an opportunity to practice living in our multicultural society.
at once the symbol of our democracy and the most pervasive means for promoting our common destiny.





