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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 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

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

msnbc.com
Jun 30, 2025

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

truthout.org
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 28, 2025

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

cnn.com
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 27, 2025

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

slate.com
Jun 27, 2025

To allow the Government to enforce [the birthright citizenship executive order] against even one newborn child is an assault on our constitutional order.

slate.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

the majority invited open defiance of the Constitution

msnbc.com
Jun 27, 2025

The other shoe has dropped on executive immunity.

cnn.com

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