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Jul 1, 2024 · Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a blistering dissent in the Trump immunity ruling, arguing that it "reshapes the institution of the presidency" and "makes a mockery" of the ...
Jul 1, 2024 · Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the Supreme Court’s decision granting former President Trump immunity for official acts “completely insulate[s] presidents from criminal liability” in a forceful ...
Aug 6, 2009 · The U.S. Senate confirmed Sonia Sotomayor to the nation's highest court today. The federal appeals court judge will now become the first Hispanic justice and the third woman to sit on the United ...
May 25, 2024 · Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the senior most liberal on the conservative Supreme Court, told an audience at Harvard University on Friday that she sometimes cries after the court hands down its ...
May 24, 2024 · Friday afternoon, the Radcliffe Institute honored Sotomayor with the Radcliffe Medal for her judicial and civic impact. She spoke alongside 300th Anniversary University Professor Martha Minow and was introduced by actress Rita Moreno. She is the third Supreme Court Justice to receive the Radcliffe Medal, following Sandra Day O’Connor (2009 ...
Jul 1, 2024 · Justice Sonia Sotomayor at a private service for the late Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in the Great Hall of the Supreme Court on Dec. 18, 2023. (Jacquelyn Martin-Pool / Getty Images) The Court now confronts a question it has never had to answer in the Nation’s history: Whether a former President enjoys immunity from federal criminal prosecution.
Jul 1, 2024 · Leading the liberals, Justice Sonia Sotomayor outlined hypothetical situations where the concept of immunity could apply. "Orders the Navy's Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival?" she wrote.
