Tag Archives: Sonia Sotomayor

CNN reports: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has made clear she has no plans to step down, according to people close to her, despite calls from some on the left that Biden should try to name a successor before Trump takes office. “She’s in great health, and the court needs her now more than ever,” said one person close to …

Mediaite reports: CNN anchor John Berman was stunned by a bombshell suggestion from analyst Bakari Sellers — that President Joe Biden should rush through the nomination and confirmation of Vice President Kamala Harris to the Supreme Court. Politico Playbook led Friday morning with a piece on the chatter among Democrats to encourage Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to retire and …

NBC News reports: Kentrell Flowers, 18, was shot after allegedly pointing a firearm in “an apparent attempt to carjack” two marshals early Friday morning, according to D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department. The shooting occurred on the 2100 block of 11th Street, which is near Sotomayor’s residence. The U.S. Marshals Service confirmed to NBC News that deputies were part of a unit …

“The president of the United States is the most powerful person in the country, and possibly the world. When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority’s reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. “Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. …

NPR reports: Sotomayor has diabetes, a condition that puts her at high risk for serious illness, or even death, from COVID-19. She has been the only justice to wear a mask on the bench since last fall when, amid a marked decline in COVID-19 cases, the justices resumed in-person arguments for the first time since the onset of the pandemic. …

The Daily Beast reports: Politico’s Playbook newsletter issued a correction on Saturday morning after misidentifying Democratic leader Chuck Schumer’s wife, Iris Weinshall, as Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. The publication claimed that the case of mistaken identity was sparked by a photo sent in by a tipster allegedly taken at the hip D.C. eatery Le Diplomate on Friday night. In …

The New York Post reports: President Trump on Monday night called for Supreme Court justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg to recuse themselves from any cases involving his administration after a recent stinging dissent by Sotomayor. Trump was responding to a statement from Fox News host Laura Ingraham, who said Sotomayor accused “GOP appointed Justices of being biased” in …

Chris Johnson reports at the Washington Blade: U.S. Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor officiated on Saturday the wedding of a lesbian couple with a history of LGBT advocacy, the Washington Blade has learned. Sotomayor performed the wedding of Ingrid Duran and Catherine Pino, who are founders of D&P Creative Strategies. The organization seeks to increase the role of corporate, legislative and …

Franklin Graham has posted the seventh in his Twitter series of daily anti-gay marriage prayers for members of the Supreme Court. Still to come: Breyer and Thomas.

UPDATE: Equality Case Files has the motion.

Fox News contributor and wingnut radio host Laura Ingraham apparently believes that Puerto Rico is a foreign country. In a February 3 speech before Yale Law students, Sotomayor commented on the fact that she was the first Supreme Court Justice to use the term “undocumented immigrant,” instead of “illegal alien,” saying “[t]o call them illegal aliens seemed and does seem …

Read the full filing. UPDATE: Via the Associated Press. In papers filed Tuesday with Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the state asked her to overturn court decisions to let the marriages go forward. Sotomayor handles emergency requests from Utah and other Rocky Mountain states. She can act by herself or get the rest of the court involved. Nearly two-thirds of Utah’s 2.8 …

The Associated Press reports: The countdown to the new year in Times Square is getting some high-profile help — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. The organizers of the annual celebration announced Sunday that Sotomayor will lead the final 60-second countdown and push the ceremonial button to signal the descent of the Times Square New Year’s Eve ball. Sotomayor was …

Many had expected Utah to rush their emergency stay request to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor first thing this morning. But not so. The attorney general’s office is working to prepare the appeal to the Supreme Court on the 10th Circuit’s denial of a stay. Due to the necessity of coordination with outside counsel the filing of the appeal may …

Media Matters reminds us what the right wing put Sonia Sotomayor through before her confirmation to the Supreme Court and wonders if we’re about to go through it all again.

Mostly-conservative lawyer kingpin Ted Olson, one half of the duo working to bring a pro-marriage equality case before the Supreme Court, returned to his roots yesterday, appearing before SCOTUS (on Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s first day on the bench) to argue that laws restricting corporations from making political speech be swept away. Olson’s client, a non-profit called Citizens United, has made …

Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed as the next Supreme Court Justice today in a partisan vote of 68-31. All Democrats approved, as well as nine Republicans. Sen. Ted Kennedy was too ill to be in the chamber. The GOP’s ugly smear campaign against Sotomayor may have repercussions in the next election. From the moment Mr. Obama chose her in May, many …