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2 Jun 2024, 3:28 pm by Ilya Somin
Co-blogger Josh Blackman does not object to this result, but criticizes Justice Sonia Sotomayor's opinion for the Court for relying, in part, on tweets and other statements by then-New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. [read post]
30 May 2024, 5:50 pm by Howard Bashman
“Supreme Court Clears Way for N.R.A. to Pursue First Amendment Challenge; The unanimous opinion, by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, found that the gun rights group had plausibly claimed a First Amendment violation”: Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times has this report. [read post]
30 May 2024, 12:50 pm by Amy Howe
” Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, in a brief opinion joined by Justice Elena Kagan. [read post]
30 May 2024, 10:50 am by Amy Howe
In a unanimous decision by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the justices agreed that the NRA had made out a case that Maria Vullo, then the head of New York’s Department of Financial Services, had gone too far in her efforts to get companies and banks to cut ties with the NRA, crossing over the line from efforts to persuade the companies and banks – which would be permitted – to attempts to coerce them, which are not. [read post]
30 May 2024, 7:03 am by Howard Bashman
Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court in National Rifle Association of America v. [read post]
29 May 2024, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
In an opinion of the Court for himself and six other Justices (Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Barrett, and Ketanji Jackson), Justice Clarence Thomas explained that: Under the Appropriations Clause, an appropriation is simply a law that authorizes expenditures from a specified source of public money for designated purposes. [read post]
29 May 2024, 11:44 am by Staci Zaretsky
The post Sonia Sotomayor Shares Feelings Of ‘Desperation’ As A Liberal SCOTUS Justice appeared first on Above the Law. [read post]
26 May 2024, 7:15 pm by Howard Bashman
And Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times reports that “Justice Sonia Sotomayor says some Supreme Court rulings have made her cry. [read post]
25 May 2024, 7:19 am by Jonathan H. Adler
The New York Times reports on recent remarks by Justice Sonia Sotomayor at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute. [read post]
25 May 2024, 4:49 am
Said Justice Sonia Sotomayor, quoted in "Justice Sotomayor Describes Frustration With Being a Liberal on the Supreme Court/In a conversation at Harvard, the justice spoke of her despair at some of the court’s decisions, but she urged optimism and a focus on future generations" (NYT). [read post]
During the same day of the arrest of Zghidi and Bsaiss, police officers raided the headquarters of Tunisia’s bar association, where lawyer and columnist  Sonia Dahmani had taken refuge after having been the subject of an arrest warrant. [read post]
23 May 2024, 1:23 pm by Amy Howe
Joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, Justice Elena Kagan dissented from the court’s decision. [read post]
23 May 2024, 7:03 am by Howard Bashman
And Justice Elena Kagan issued a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Jackson joined. [read post]
Tunisian protesters gathered in the capital in support of President Kais Saied on Sunday amid an unprecedented nationwide strike and protest from lawyers following the violent arrest of lawyer Sonia Dahmani. [read post]
16 May 2024, 12:37 pm by Ronald Mann
Discussion at the argument suggested that the justices were skeptical about the practical consequences of dismissal, so Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s opinion for a unanimous court rejecting that option is no surprise. [read post]
16 May 2024, 9:55 am by Amy Howe
In a 22-page opinion joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, Thomas explained that when the Constitution was ratified in the late 18th century, “appropriations were understood as a legislative means of authorizing expenditure from a source of public funds for designated purposes. [read post]
16 May 2024, 7:09 am by Howard Bashman
Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court in Smith v. [read post]