Trump, Sotomayor and Supreme Court
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The former dean of Harvard Law School emerges as more likely than her liberal colleagues to make common cause with conservatives.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissent on a case was so absurd that even fellow liberal Justice Sonya Sotomayor was forced to correct her.
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The New Republic on MSNSotomayor Warns No One Is Safe After Birthright Citizenship RulingLiberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor torched the Supreme Court for siding with Trump on birthright citizenship—and putting every civil right under attack.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor condemned the federal sentencing commission’s failure to resolve a circuit split and scolded Tennessee courts for their “untenable” approach to manslaughter jury instructions.
The last day of the Supreme Court term was a tough one for the court’s liberal bloc, particularly Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who announced her dissent from the bench in two cases.
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The Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to deport a group of migrants with criminal records held at a U.S. base in Djibouti; the administration says they'll be sent to South Sudan.
"If this Court wishes to permit the Government to flout the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Due Process Clause, it cannot avoid accountability for that lawlessness." The post 'The administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial': Sotomayor singles out Alito and hurls invective at SCOTUS colleagues in third-country deportation case dissent first appeared on Law & Crime.