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Esto es así, dijo Sotomayor, porque la administración puede ser capaz de hacer cumplir una política incluso cuando ha sido impugnada y declarada inconstitucional por un tribunal inferior.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a 31-page dissent, arguing that the judiciary had long played a role in shielding individuals from discrimination. Tierney L. Cross for The New York Times ...
July 13, 2009 – Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee begin. July 28, 2009 – The Senate Judiciary Committee approves the nomination of Sotomayor.
Sonia Sotomayor The latest on Sonia Sotomayor. An associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2009, Sotomayor was nominated by former President Barack Obama. She is the first ...
Justice Sonia Sotomayor read her dissent from the bench, criticizing the majority for deciding to uphold a Tennessee law banning certain medical care for minors who identify as transgender.
In a serious setback for the transgender community, the high court okayed a law that barred Tennessee’s trans youth from accessing hormone therapy and puberty blockers.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned that the country "might be in crisis" when it comes to nominating justices to the Supreme Court, thanks to the hyperpartisan nature of U.S. politics ...
WASHINGTON — Justice Sonia Sotomayor, one of the court’s three liberals, wrote a scathing dissent criticizing her conservative colleagues’ decision to uphold a state ban on some medical ...
Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the Supreme Court countered "decades" of legal precedent in its decision to uphold a Tennessee law banning certain medical treatments for transgender youth. The Court ...
By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court’s senior liberal, slammed the Trump administration’s handling of immigration matters in a fiery dissent Monday and ...
Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented from the majority opinion, joined by Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan. “By retreating from meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters ...