‘The President Is Now a King Above the Law,’ Sotomayor Warns in Chilling Dissent

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‘The President Is Now a King Above the Law,’ Sotomayor Warns in Chilling Dissent

A legal journalist described the liberal justice’s dissent as “one of the most terrified and terrifying pieces of judicial writing I’ve ever encountered.” In her dissent against the U.S. Supreme Court’s Monday ruling in Trump v. United States, liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor listed several acts that she argued the high court’s right-wing supermajority has effectively sanctioned as unprosecutable […]

Supreme Court Ruling Turns Separation of Church and State Into ‘Constitutional Violation,’ Warns Sotomayor

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Supreme Court Ruling Turns Separation of Church and State Into ‘Constitutional Violation,’ Warns Sotomayor

“We are witnessing one of the most extreme Supreme Courts in modern history rewrite the most basic social commitments of our society,” said the head of one of the nation’s largest teachers unions. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday warned that the court’s right-wing majority had further eroded the nation’s bedrock laws separating church […]