WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday kept on hold in roughly half the country new regulations about sex discrimination in education, rejecting a Biden administration request. The court voted 5-4, with conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch joining the three liberal justices in dissent. At issue were protections for pregnant students and students who are … Read more
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks during a service for retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in the Great Hall at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 18, 2023. Jacquelyn Martin | Getty Images A deputy U.S. Marshal tasked with protecting Supreme Court justices’ homes shot an alleged armed carjacker near the … Read more
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Jacquelyn Martin | Pool | Getty Images Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan laid out grim visions of U.S. democracy in their joint written dissents to the court’s Monday decision on former President Donald Trump’s claim of presidential … Read more
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor gave a blistering dissent of Friday’s ruling that will give local governments the ability to punish homeless people for sleeping outside. “The only question for the Court today is whether the Constitution permits punishing homeless people with no access to shelter for sleeping in public with as little as a … Read more
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned that the high court’s decision to lift a federal agency’s ban on bump stocks that was put into place after the 2017 Las Vegas massacre would have “deadly consequences.” The Las Vegas shooter used bump stocks, simple devices that attach to a semiautomatic rifle and create an effect similar … Read more
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor identified a key contradiction underlying former President Donald Trump’s defense at Thursday’s Supreme Court hearing on whether he is immune from prosecution in a case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The discrepancy lies in Trump’s legal team arguing that presidents can’t be … Read more
WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats dismissed calls for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step down in order to ensure President Joe Biden has the chance to name her successor while his party controls the Senate this year. “I don’t think there’s anything I know about her medical condition that would disqualify her from continuing. I … Read more
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A presidential election is looming. Control of the Senate is uncertain. The window may be closing for the Democratic Party to replace the oldest Supreme Court justice nominated by a Democratic president. Paul Campos, a law professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, remembers how this story went last time, and he’s begging for a … Read more
