Trump, Sotomayor and Supreme Court
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The New Republic on MSNSotomayor Warns No One Is Safe After Birthright Citizenship RulingLiberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor torched the Supreme Court for siding with Trump on birthright citizenship—and putting every civil right under attack.
The last day of the Supreme Court term was a tough one for the court’s liberal bloc, particularly Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who announced her dissent from the bench in two cases.
The Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to deport a group of migrants with criminal records held at a U.S. base in Djibouti; the administration says they'll be sent to South Sudan.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor condemned the federal sentencing commission’s failure to resolve a circuit split and scolded Tennessee courts for their “untenable” approach to manslaughter jury instructions.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor read lengthy dissents attacking the majority rulings on universal injunctions and religious rights in public schools.
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Labor unions, advocacy groups and local governments sued the president and 21 federal agencies over the RIFs, contending that the president exceeded his authority in mandating the federal layoffs. They argued that the president avoided the congressional approval needed to restructure federal agencies.
"If this Court wishes to permit the Government to flout the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Due Process Clause, it cannot avoid accountability for that lawlessness." The post 'The administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial': Sotomayor singles out Alito and hurls invective at SCOTUS colleagues in third-country deportation case dissent first appeared on Law & Crime.