@TCatInReality @AngryBlackLady
I was struck immediately by that passage as well, and had the exact same response. He knew. It was his deal for his appointment. I have never believed that THE Constitution is at the heart of any of those appointed to that bench, with a few exceptions. #Ketanji Brown Jackson is one. Even Brandeis and Ginsburg had blind spots. My fantasy is that #Sotomayor exposes the corruption and rattles the windows on her way out.
"#Sotomayor sympathized with the U.S. government’s concerns about the #lawsuit and agreed that allowing it to move forward could “undermine the #UnitedStates’ foreign relations and reciprocal self-interest” and “conformity with international #law.”
The battle over whether the survivors can pierce #Hungary’s immunity as a foreign sovereign has extended for 14 years, reaching the #SupremeCourt twice."
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5157298-supreme-court-hungary-holocaust-survivors/
My read is that Sotomayor wants widespread demonstrations against the SCOTUS. And I think that Biden missed an important opportunity to stack the courts. He should have wasted all political capital on that, and nothing else. Given all of the issues that the Republican ass-clowns have created which are headed to the courts and ultimate the SCOTUS, I think most people can see the importance in delegitimatizing what should have been reshaped years ago (by adding justices when new federal districts were created) and not allowing the Republicans to steal seats on the courts (i.e. they delegitimatized it first).
Concurring opinion of #Sotomayor only a minor difference in outcome, but: »I see no reason to assume without deciding that the Act implicates the First Amendment because our precedent leaves no doubt that it does« »I agree that the Act survives petitioners’ First Amendment challenge.«
#Snyder betont, dass es den Nazis innerhalb von nur 12 Mon. gelang, die politischen Institutionen soweit zu unterwandern und umzuwandeln, dass es "nur noch" weniger Abstimmungen bedurfte, um den Einparteien-Staat herbeizuführen. Das Buch ist ja schon aus 2017 + mittlerweile sehen wir, wie stark #Trump in seiner 1. Amtszeit Einfluss genommen hat; bekanntes Beispiel ist der mit nur noch 3 liberalen Richter*innen besetzte Supreme Court. Hoffen wir, dass Sonia #Sotomayor noch 4+ Jahre im Amt bleibt!
Breaking: SCOTUS, 5-4, allows courts to block full Title IX sex discrimination rule during appeals
Gorsuch joins Sotomayor's dissent, along with Kagan and Jackson
As #Sotomayor wrote for the dissenters, “Today … a majority of this Court leaves in place preliminary injunctions that bar the Government from enforcing the entire rule
—including provisions that bear no apparent relationship to respondents’ alleged injuries.
Those injunctions are overbroad.”
That concern about overbroad injunctions led the court 
earlier this year to partially stay an injunction blocking Idaho’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors
— allowing the state to enforce the ban against most people during the appeal.
Neither Chief Justice John #Roberts, who joined #Gorsuch’s 2020 majority in Bostock, *
nor Justices Amy Coney #Barrett or Brett #Kavanaugh, who in other instances have criticized overly broad injunctions, were willing to provide the four dissenters with a fifth vote to allow some of the Title IX rule to go into effect while litigation continues.
Instead, they joined with the court’s two most extreme-right members, Justices Clarence #Thomas and Sam #Alito, to 
allow the full rule to be blocked during litigation
(* In Bostock, the court held that the sex discrimination ban in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 includes a ban on sexual orientation discrimination and gender identity discrimination.)
https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-5-4-title-ix-shadow-docket-denial
The Supreme Court decided this month in Donald Trump v. U.S. that the Constitution prescribes a heretofore unidentified absolute #presidential #immunity, 
permitting the president to violate federal law in the commission of “official acts.”
This extraordinary decision came after the former president turned to the High Court seeking to #dismiss a federal indictment concerning his role in the Jan. 6 #insurrection.
With the majority decision now the supreme law of the land, the question for concerned citizens becomes this:
What can the People do to prevent, or at least minimize, the likelihood that future presidents will act as kings or queens beyond the reach of the law under color of constitutional authority?
“When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority’s reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution,” Justice #Sonia #Sotomayor noted in her dissent.
“Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune.
Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune.
Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune.”
This ruling represents a challenge to our founding order, as Justice #Ketanji #Brown #Jackson explains in her dissenting opinion.
The majority has usurped the power of Congress through this decision because it immunizes a president from the reach of the People’s laws that were intended to apply to all citizens.
It empowers the federal judiciary at the cost of the legislative branch by creating a standard that only the federal judiciary can rule on.
This usurpation of power should prompt a response from Congress to recover its lost legislative power
and to rein in an extremist Court.
The American people are faced with a Supreme Court that has ventured into presidential politics
and manufactured a theory of absolute presidential immunity
not supported by the Founding Fathers,
the text of the Constitution,
the legal precedent of past Supreme Court decisions,
or the history of the Republic to date.
️Congress must start acting on behalf of the People it represents.
The political effect, if not the actual intent, of the Supreme Court’s majority opinion
is to provide a legal path for the former president to escape his legal difficulties without a trial or accountability
and to increase his chances of winning the presidency again in 2024.
The Court is respected and seen as legitimate when its decisions are sound, supported by the Constitution and legally objective.
With the Court’s majority decision this month, it can only be seen as the ally of a candidate for president.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/07/19/courts-immunity-decision-is-a-threat-to-constitutional-order/
Justice Sotomayor Speaks on Her "Desperation" on the Court
When saying there "are likely to be more" trying days on the Court was Justice #Sotomayor providing a hint of what the Court will do this term?
Or is it merely an indication of what she expects in coming years given the current makeup of the Court?
Earlier this term, Justice #Jackson may have dropped a hint on the outcome of Loper Bright and Relentless.
https://reason.com/volokh/2024/05/25/justice-sotomayor-speaks-on-her-desperation-on-the-court/
Democratic senator Richard Blumenthal is turning up the heat on Supreme Court Justice #Sonia #Sotomayor to step down while Democrats can select her replacement.
Speaking with NBC’s Sahil Kapur for a story published Wednesday, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) made a veiled reference to the late Justice #Ruth #Bader #Ginsburg
— who ignored calls to step down for years during former President Barack Obama’s tenure.
She passed away in 2020, with former President Donald Trump choosing her successor.
“I’m very respectful of Justice Sotomayor,” Blumenthal told NBC. “I have great admiration for her.
But I think she really has to weigh the competing factors. We should learn a lesson.
And it’s not like there’s any mystery here about what the lesson should be. The old saying
— graveyards are full of indispensable people, ourselves in this body included.”
The idea of the 69-year-old Sotomayor stepping down has gained momentum in recent days.
Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan made the argument for the justice to retire in a recent column for The Guardian.
“Wouldn’t a replacement for Sotomayor that Senator Joe Manchin has to approve be less progressive, and more centrist, than our sole Latina, super-progressive justice?” Hasan wrote.
“Perhaps. But, again, consider the alternative. Would we rather Biden replace Sotomayor with a centrist in 2024 … or Trump replace her with a far-right Federalist Society goon in 2025?”
#Sotomayor bitchsmacking the government is my crack for this morning. #SCOTUS
Liberal justices blast Supreme Court majority for allowing Alabama execution
The three liberal Supreme Court justices took aim at their conservative colleagues for allowing the early Friday execution of an Alabama death row inmate who had raised claims about the state's history of botching the lethal injection process.
The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, declined to block the execution of #James #Barber, who was put to death at about 2 a.m. local time.
"This court’s decision denying Barber’s request for a stay allows Alabama to experiment again with a human life," Justice Sonia #Sotomayor wrote in a dissenting opinion joined by her liberal colleagues, Justices Elena #Kagan and Ketanji Brown #Jackson.
Barber had argued that the execution would violate his right to be free from #cruel and #unusual #punishment under the Constitution's Eighth Amendment.
On Tuesday, the #SupremeCourt heard arguments in two separate cases that challenge President Biden’s plan to wipe out more than $400 billion in #student #debt for approximately 40 million Americans.
The two highly watched cases are both quite technical. But in the first argument of the day, Justice Sonia #Sotomayor managed to cut through the legal complexity to handily summarize the problems with the case:
* It ignores the vast #advantages of #generational #wealth when it comes to paying for education and
* the #hardship that borrowers without financial help will face if Biden’s program is cancelled
* and, to top it off, cancellation’s opponents are asking the high court to engage in judicial #overreach to shut off a program that they simply don’t like
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/02/sonia-sotomayor-student-debt-cancellation-supreme-court-scotus/
Back in 2013, then President BARACK OBAMA quietly met with Supreme Court Justice RUTH BADER GINSBURG to subtly encourage her to retire before Republicans flipped the Senate. She didn’t, and the GOP went on to control the chamber for the following six years.
Now in 2023, the conversation is starting all over again with 68-year-old Justice SONIA #SOTOMAYOR with a few think pieces and podcast episodes urging her ( and sometimes fellow Justice ELENA #KAGAN ) to step down, and for the White House to nudge them in that direction.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry while listening to the #SCOTUS argument. I just know that the attorney representing #Texas is trying to be snarky and getting smacked down by #Sotomayor.
breaking ranks. 
