Would-be carjacker targets Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor security detail officer, suspect shot
On Friday in Washington, DC, an attempted carjacker was shot dead after pointing a gun at federal marshals guarding Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s home near her residence. According to a criminal complaint filed by the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, around 1:15 a.m., two U.S. deputy marshals were on patrol in the 2100 block […]
Bodyguard For SCOTUS Justice Sotomayor Shoots Failed Carjacker Near Her Residence
U.S. Supreme Court poses for official group portrait WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 7, 2022: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor poses for an official portrait in the East Conference Room of the Supreme Court Building in Washington, DC on October 7, 2022. The Supreme Court began its new term in September when Justice Ketanji Brown […]
Armed Guards Protect Sonia Sotomayor Although She Rejected the People’s ‘Private Right of Armed Self-Defense’
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor joined the dissent but was escorted by armed guards. McDonald’s v. Chicago (2010), which denied the “private right of armed self-defense.” In July, one of Sotomayor’s armed guards shot and killed a man attempting to carjack her outside her home. by New York PostIncident Occurred Shortly after 1 a.m. on […]
Justice Sotomayor dangerously misunderstands our military
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor may be an expert on constitutional law, but she apparently has no idea about a key limit on executive power: the U.S. military. In a dissenting opinion to the Supreme Court ruling of July 1,Trump vs. the United StatesSotomayor presented a hypothetical scenario regarding presidential immunity, specifically warning that the […]
Ty Cobb on Sotomayor dissent: 'A lot of screaming and no analysis'
Ty Cobb, President Trump’s former White House counsel, called Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent from the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling “a bit hysterical.” “I thought her dissent was a little bit hysterical, no analysis at all, just shouting, no analysis at all, which was disappointing,” Cobb said in an interview with CNN on Monday. In […]
Hillary Clinton sides with Sotomayor over 'MAGA wing of the Supreme Court'
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday endorsed Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s scathing dissent in the case, saying the “MAGA wing of the Supreme Court” had shaped the majority’s decision to grant presidential immunity for acts committed while in office. “I agree with Justice Sotomayor on the Supreme Court’s MAGA immunity decision,” Clinton, the Democratic […]
Sotomayor laments ‘burden’ on same-sex couples in SCOTUS immigration ruling
Justice Sonia Sotomayor blasted her Supreme Court colleagues in a fiery dissent on Friday, arguing that the court’s decision in the spousal visa case will be especially harmful to same-sex couples. “Same-sex couples may be forcibly relocated to countries that do not recognize same-sex marriage or that criminalize homosexuality,” Justice Sotomayor wrote in a dissenting […]
TERENCE P. JEFFREY: Should Sotomayor Cry Some More?
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor visited Harvard University last week to accept the Radcliffe Medal, which, says Harvard, “is presented annually to an individual who has had a transformative impact on society.” In 2018, Harvard gave the award to Hillary Clinton — the former secretary of state who lost the 2016 presidential election to Donald […]
SCOTUS Justice Sotomayor Admits She Cries After Conservative Rulings
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who usually sides with liberals in cases, acknowledged that she sometimes cries after rulings that go in favor of conservatives. Sotomayor acknowledged shedding tears during her acceptance speech at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute on Friday. “There were days after the case was announced that I would come into my office, […]
Sonia Sotomayor recalls crying in despair over SCOTUS rulings
Liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has acknowledged that she sometimes sheds tears after losing a major case before a conservative-led panel. “There were days when I came to my office after the case was announced, closed the door and cried.” The Bronx-born legal scholar recalls The event took place last week at the […]