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born 1954 United States
Sonia Maria Sotomayor (born 25 June 1954) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (since 2009), and a former judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1998–2009) and of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1992–1998).
United States Academics Lawyers Also known as: Justice Sotomayor
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Puerto Rico will not only survive this. It will bloom once again.
Look at another person and understand no matter how much you disagree with them… if you look, you will find good in them.
here (2017)
No matter how you look at it, the majority’s official-acts immunity is utterly indefensible.
Trump v. United States (2024)
It seems history matters to this Court only when it is convenient.
Trump v. United States (2024)
I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.
Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.
No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous.
I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.
I understand Justice Scalia's jurisprudence to begin with a proposition that we should all agree to — namely, that judges should try to interpret the law correctly, and without personal or political bias.
Awareness that the Government may be watching chills associational and expressive freedoms. And the Government’s unrestrained power to assemble data that reveal private aspects of identity is susceptible to abuse.
I find the speech in this case patently offensive, hateful, and insulting. The Court should not, however, gloss over three decades of jurisprudence and the centrality of First Amendment freedoms in our lives because it is confronted with speech it does not like.
Whether described as presumptive or absolute, under the majority’s rule, a President’s use of any official power for any purpose, even the most corrupt, is immune from prosecution. That is just as bad as it sounds, and it is baseless.
Trump v. United States (2024)
In such cases, one can feel powerless and wonder why the others were not persuaded by what one took to be so salient in the case. There is, on the other hand, a singularly satisfying feeling that one gets when one has arrived at a particularly penetrating analysis and is able to convince both of one's colleagues of its merit.
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