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11 Apr 2024, 6:40 pm
“The Case For Sonia Sotomayor’s Retirement Is Not Just About Sonia Sotomayor; Democrats must reconceptualize what it means to serve responsibly on the Supreme Court, where a handful of unexpected vacancies can flip the balance of power for generations”: Jay Willis has this essay online at Balls and Strikes. [read post]
10 Apr 2024, 1:03 pm
Sonia Sotomayor, one of the three remaining liberal Supreme Court justices, will turn 70 years old in June, is diabetic and had one parent who died at a young age. [read post]
10 Apr 2024, 8:52 am
In joining that second holding, however, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote separately to emphasize that “if this Court’s understanding of state law is wrong, California courts, in an appropriate case, will have the last word. [read post]
8 Apr 2024, 3:49 am
“Don’t RBG us, Sonia,” has become a rallying cry for those who fear that Justice Sonia Sotomayor might give Trump yet another seat on the Supreme Court. [read post]
7 Apr 2024, 7:31 am
Some commentators and political figures want Justice Sonia Sotomayor to retire before the election so that President Biden can name her replacement before the election with a slim Democratic majority in the Senate. [read post]
6 Apr 2024, 5:40 pm
“Democratic senator suggests Sonia Sotomayor weigh ‘competing factors’ in decision to retire: ‘Learn a lesson’; Blumenthal told NBC News that ‘graveyards are full of indispensable people, ourselves in this body included. [read post]
5 Apr 2024, 2:00 pm
“Sonia Sotomayor’s Retirement Is Not the Point; Calls are mounting for the liberal justice to take her leave; Instead, Democrats should focus on winning elections”: Matt Ford has this essay online at The New Republic. [read post]
5 Apr 2024, 7:16 am
’ Mashpee tribe praises Supreme Court action preserving 321 acres in trust (Rachael Devaney, Cape Cod Times) Crypto Firms Take SEC Fight to Texas, With Eye on Supreme Court (Matthew Bultman, Bloomberg Law) Sonia Sotomayor’s Retirement Is Not the Point (Matt Ford, The New Republic) Why Supreme Court Inaction on Gerrymandering Threatens Democracy (Thomas G. [read post]
4 Apr 2024, 2:00 pm
” The post Then The Liberals Came For Sonia Sotomayor first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion. [read post]
4 Apr 2024, 7:17 am
Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson authored an opinion concurring in the judgement but disagreeing with the majority that Congress needed to pass legislation to put the disqualification clause into effect. [read post]
3 Apr 2024, 7:27 am
Supreme Court denies stay in Central WA redistricting case (Claire Withycombe, The Seattle Times) Top Democrats won’t join calls for Justice Sotomayor to retire, but they still fear a Ruth Bader Ginsburg repeat (Sahil Kapur & Lawrence Hurley, NBC News) Peter Navarro makes long-shot Supreme Court plea to avoid more prison time (John Fritze & Devan Cole, CNN) The Supreme Court I Served On Was Made Up of Friends (Stephen Breyer, The New York Times) For the sake of all of us,… [read post]
3 Apr 2024, 7:24 am
“Top Democrats won’t join calls for Justice Sotomayor to retire, but they still fear a Ruth Bader Ginsburg repeat; As more liberals urge Sonia Sotomayor to step down this year to ensure that Biden can pick her successor, some Senate Democrats are voicing fears of a 7-2 conservative majority”: Sahil Kapur and Lawrence Hurley of NBC News have this report. [read post]
2 Apr 2024, 12:21 pm
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, an Obama nominee, has used it in a decision for the court — and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump nominee, has expressed some skepticism about it. [read post]
1 Apr 2024, 10:20 am
“For the sake of all of us, Sonia Sotomayor needs to retire from the US supreme court; She’s been described as the ‘conscience of the supreme court’; That’s why it pains me to write this”: Mehdi Hasan has this essay online at The Guardian. [read post]
30 Mar 2024, 2:05 pm
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, an Obama nominee, has used it in a decision for the court — and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump nominee, has expressed some skepticism about it. [read post]
28 Mar 2024, 10:15 am
” Similarly, Justice Sonia Sotomayor emphasized that “[t]he value of the company is the value at which someone’s going to own a hundred percent of the shares of the stock,” and, for her, that had to include the funds that the company has from the life insurance policy. [read post]
27 Mar 2024, 12:15 pm
The post What People Are Getting Wrong About The Call For Sonia Sotomayor To Retire appeared first on Above the Law. [read post]
26 Mar 2024, 3:12 pm
In that vein, Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked if the practical consequences of the contract would be to “deprive” tribes of receiving health services from the IHS. [read post]
The Free Speech Trifecta: How the Court Could Fundamentally Alter Free Speech in Three Pending Cases
25 Mar 2024, 4:00 am
What is disconcerting about the views expressed by Justices Kagan, Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor in two of the cases is not that they are outliers. [read post]
21 Mar 2024, 10:55 am
“It went about as I predicted it would,” she said, sketching out what she saw to be the dynamics on the bench, with three sympathetic justices (Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Clarence Thomas), three swing votes (Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, and Chief Justice John Roberts), and three skeptics (Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Brown Jackson). [read post]
