Sonia Sotomayor Has The Guts To Say What Everyone Knows Is True

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The conservative majority on the Supreme Court continues its inevitable task of remaking the law of the land in Donald Trump’s image. The latest insult happened Friday evening when the Court, on pure party lines, allowed the Trump administration’s immigration wealth test which limits legal immigration, to take effect in Illinois. It’s not a giant change to the status quo, since the test was a go in 49 states, but the decision crossed Illinois — the last state left — off of the list.

But that doesn’t mean the case didn’t ruffle some feathers on the Court.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor went off in a separate dissent that has been noted for its “caustic tone” and calling out of her colleagues on the bench. She describes the Court as kowtowing to the Trump administration, saying, “The Government seeks emergency relief from this Court, asking it to grant a stay where two lower courts have not. The Government insists—even though review in a court of appeals is imminent—that it will suffer irreparable harm if this Court does not grant a stay. And the Court yields.”

Though this has been a pattern in the Court as of late, Sotomayor sees the instant case as even more insidious:

"But this application is perhaps even more concerning than past ones,” Sotomayor continued. Previously, the DOJ “professed urgency because of the form of relief granted in the prior case—a nationwide injunction.” Now there’s no nationwide injunction, so there’s no apparent “urgency.” The DOJ “cannot state with precision any of the supposed harm that would come from the Illinois-specific injunction, and the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has scheduled oral argument for next week.” Yet SCOTUS lifted the injunction anyway. “It is hard,” Sotomayor wrote, “to say what is more troubling: that the Government would seek this extraordinary relief seemingly as a matter of course, or that the Court would grant it.”

https://abovethelaw.com/2020/02/sonia-sotomayor-has-the-guts-to-say-what-everyone-knows-is-true/?rf=1

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Just doing as their King demands...really that simple.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Here's Justice Sotomayor's actual dissent, which accuses the majority of wrongly tipping the scales

Kevin M. Kruse Retweeted

The Sotomayor story is such a microcosm of where we are:

1. Fox runs a story saying she accused #SCOTUS majority of pro-Trump bias.

2. Trump amplifies Fox and demands her recusal.

3. No one actually _reads_ her 7-page dissent—which says nothing about Trump or pro-Trump bias.

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Here’s Justice Sotomayor’s actual dissent, which accuses the majority of wrongly tipping the scales for emergency relief in favor of the federal government—not of pro-Trump bias: https://supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/19a905_7m48.pdf

And as I’ve explained at length before, she’s right: https://harvardlawreview.org/2019/11/the-solicitor-general-and-the-shadow-docket/

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[classof56]

3. IMHO, dTrumph should recuse himself from the human race.

Also, Planet Earth.

Just my opinion, of course.

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