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Justice Sonia Sotomayor said she is concerned the Supreme Court is going out of its way to help the Trump administration.
The high court voted along ideological lines on Friday to grant the Trump administration's demand for an emergency request to stay an injunction in an Illinois case regarding the restriction of low-income immigrants from entering the United States. Sotomayor wrote in an opinion that her conservative colleagues on the Supreme Court, who have the majority, are “putting a thumb on the scale in favor of” the Trump administration.
“It is hard to say what is more troubling,” Sotomayor wrote on Friday. “That the government would seek this extraordinary relief seemingly as a matter of course, or that the Court would grant it.”
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Sotomayor, an Obama appointee, criticized what she described as a troubling pattern of the conservative justices ruling in favor of the Trump administration without looking at these cases in an objective manner.
NEWSFLASH: We voted for this. It is absolutely fair.
Her comments are 100% inflammatory and out of place. She can resign her position or be impeached.
Not making up stories. Apparently, I was mistaken as to where you live.
As for affirmative action, you seem to think that before affirmative action came into existence, no minorities ever attended college nor were they able to enter the ranks of the middle and upper classes. If you think that, then you are wrong.
My father got into college, entered a white collar field and had a long and successful career in the federal government. He did all this before there was affirmative action. And, yes, he was a minority.
The majority were barred based on race alone.
Are you trying to act as though your father was the norm?
She's an appellate court judge. She can dissent, and publish her views along with the decision. Nothing wrong with that--it may not happen every day, but it happens often enough that legal scholars know to watch for it. It may help somebody in future matters, or it may not.
In other words, her dissent is not unusual. This is how appellate courts work--not every judge agrees with the other judges, and those who disagree with the majority can publish their views in the decision. That's what she did.
The real scandal here, that she is willfully ignorant of, is that Federal Trial Court Judges issue nationwide Injunctions seemingly as a matter of course. It is a ridiculous abuse of power.
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The high court voted along ideological lines on Friday to grant the Trump administration's demand for an emergency request to stay an injunction in an Illinois case regarding the restriction of low-income immigrants from entering the United States.
“It is hard to say what is more troubling,” Sotomayor wrote on Friday. “That the government would seek this extraordinary relief seemingly as a matter of course, or that the Court would grant it.”
The real scandal here, that she is willfully ignorant of, is that Federal Trial Court Judges issue nationwide Injunctions seemingly as a matter of course. It is a ridiculous abuse of power.
Yes. They're issuing advisory opinions and turning lawsuits into class actions without even pretending to comply with FRCP 23.
Most valedictorians are not accepted at Ivy League schools.
Duh...considering the number of high schools in this country. Not to mention, Ivy League schools do examine more than academic performance. However, Sotomayor wasn’t lacking in that department.
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