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The court’s most senior liberal justice also muses on the prospects of a binding code of ethics and term limits.
Supreme Court justices Jackson and Sotomayor disagree over Trump's federal workforce reduction plan in an 8-1 ruling that allows the president's downsizing initiative to proceed.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks about what drove her to a career in law and to author several books on Aug. 17, 2019, at the Mississippi Book Festival in Jackson, Mississippi.
PEOPLE has an exclusive audio excerpt of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor ’s forthcoming children’s book, Just Shine!
Justice Ketanji Jackson, you may stand alone in SCOTUS, but those last two letters “US”, means we got your back.
Sotomayor’s staff has often prodded public institutions that have hosted the justice to buy her memoir or children’s books, works that have earned her at least $3.7 million since she joined ...
Today’s Sotomayor/Kagan clash really stood out on that front,” Matt Ford, who covers law and the courts for the New Republic, said in a tweet. Sotomayor was nominated to the bench in 2009 by ...
Sotomayor’s dissent wasn’t exclusively about birthright citizenship — a question the court has sidestepped for now. Instead, it emphasized how the decision stands to weaken one of the judiciary’s most ...
Sotomayor said she would continue to "tilt at windmills" and write dissents even though the court has moved steadily to the right. "It's not an option to fall into despair," Sotomayor said.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court’s most senior liberal justice, read her dissent aloud from the bench Wednesday to stress her forceful disagreement with the court effectively ...
Justice Sotomayor does get around to addressing Asian Americans later in the opinion: Citing no evidence, JUSTICE THOMAS also suggests that race-conscious admissions programs discriminate against ...