Had the prosecution corrected Sneed on the stand, his credibility plainly would have suffered.
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.
the prosecution violated its constitutional obligation to correct false testimony.
The President of the United States is the most powerful person in the country, and possibly the world.
We will lose our democracy if people, particularly young people, don’t make it their responsibility to be literate about the basis for your decision-making.
All of us have an obligation too, right now, which is: information literacy is the most important topic of our society today.
It makes a mockery of the principle, foundational to our Constitution and system of Government, that no man is above the law.
Court decisions stand whether one particular person chooses to abide by them or not.
There have been exceptions, citing President Andrew Jackson's defiance of an 1832 Supreme Court ruling.
I criticized the conservative-majority court for overturning long-standing precedents.
But it's also because the court has proceeded cautiously, and has proceeded understanding that it has to proceed slowly.
Our founders were hellbent on ensuring that we didn’t have a monarchy and the first way they thought of that was to give Congress the power of the purse.
News literacy is the obligation of all of us to become more knowledgeable to get accurate information.
Court decisions stand, whether one particular person chooses to abide by them or not.
By and large, we have been a country who has understood that the rule of law has helped us maintain our democracy.
The court effectively creates a law-free zone around the president, upsetting the status quo that has existed since the founding.
This is the absolute wrong time for the Supreme Court to be sending a signal that would allow more discrimination rather than protection for gay rights.
the prosecution violated its constitutional obligation to correct false testimony.
the prosecution violated its constitutional obligation to correct false testimony.
Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts, I don’t see how it is possible.
Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception, that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts? I don't see how it is possible.





