Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is widely known as a liberal jurist who can reliably be expected to vote with her leftist colleagues, Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, on virtually every issue, as…
Showing why her own colleagues have long viewed her as the abrasive outlier of the High Court, Justice Sonia Sotomayor — who said in 2001, “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more…
Justice Sotomayor is on a speaking tour. In a series of public remarks, she has offered some striking comments about her colleagues. On Wednesday, she spoke in Lawrence, Kansas about Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence in …
The Supreme Court yesterday rejected a petition from Priscilla Villarreal, the independent Texas journalist who was arrested on felony charges in 2017 for asking a Laredo police officer to confirm information about a fatal…
From Justice Sotomayor's dissent from the denial of certiorari today in Villarreal v. Alaniz, which strikes me as quite persuasive:To defeat a claim of qualified immunity, an individual must show that an official…
There was an unusual exchange in Hecox. The Justices had little interest in pursuing the mootness argument. Yet, Justice Sotomayor tried to explain why Hecox would drop the case for non-strategic reasons. Sotomayor suggested…
This morning the Supreme Court issued its first decision of the October 2025 term in an argued case. Contrary to widespread speculation, today's decision was was not in Learning Resources v. Trump (the challenge to the…
It's not every day that you find U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor in agreement about the destructive legacy of one of the Supreme Court's own precedents. But such an agreement was on…
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