A Supreme Court judge for Sonia Sotomayor said in a speech Tuesday that some Democrats and media members may not comply with the court's decision on his executive order. argued that the court's decision was standing.
“The court's decision is whether or not a particular person chooses to protect them,” she said. “The basis remains that at some point it is a court order that someone respects.”
Sotomayor did not directly mention the president in his remarks at Miami-Dade College in Florida. To the New York Times.
“Our founders were bothered by ensuring we had no monarchy,” added Sotomayor. “And the first way they came up with was to give Congress the power of their wallets.”
Spain's King Philipe VI will receive Sonia Sotomayor, a pre-judice of the US Supreme Court, at the Palace of Zalzuela in Madrid, Spain, on March 4, 2024. (Pablo Quadra)
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“The court went with caution,” the Supreme Court judge added. “We cannot go far ahead of society as much as society rebelled and ignored it, but we cannot fall so late in society because we don't do the right thing.”
Trump and his administration have criticized multiple court suppression orders against several of his enforcement lawsuits related to the freeze on funding and access to government efficiency (DOGE) to personal data.
Sotomayor also expressed concern about social media, saying, “The Internet is creating an extraordinary challenge for the press and the world.”
“We're going to lose our democracy,” she warned that even if the young people act appropriately, unless she adds.
A US Supreme Court judge posed for an official portrait in the Eastern Conference Room of the Supreme Court building in Washington, DC on October 7, 2022. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images))
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Sotomayor criticized the court's 2024 presidential immunity case in her first public appearance since the start of Second Trump's term earlier this month, saying it puts the court's legitimacy on the line .
“If we go far beyond the people as courtrooms, our legitimacy will be questioned,” Sotomayor said at an event in Louisville, Kentucky. “I think the immunity case is one of those circumstances. I don't think any Americans have accepted that they should go beyond American law.
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The Supreme Court held in July that it had substantial immunity from prosecution for official conduct committed while the former president was in office, but not informal.
Sotomayor wrote in particular arguing, joining Justice Elena Kagan and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, “This decision laughs at the principles underlying our constitution and government system and goes beyond the law. Not there,” he said.
Haley Chi-Sing of Fox News contributed to this report.
