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Supreme Court refuses to halt $656M judgment against PLO

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor refused Monday to halt a $656 mill…
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https://www.europesays.com/people/146082/ It’s good to see some justices standing up to Trump #AmyConeyBarrett #BrettKavanaugh #ClarenceThomas #EJeanCarroll #ElenaKagan #JohnRoberts #KetanjiBrownJackson #MAGA #Project2025 #SamuelAlito #scotus #SoniaSotomayor #UnitedStatesSupremeCourt

https://www.europesays.com/people/145884/ Trump says he’ll ask Supreme Court to rehear birthright citizenship case #AmyConeyBarrett #BirthrightCitizenship #ChiefJusticeJohnRoberts #citizenship #ExecutiveOrder #JohnRoberts #JusticeBrettKavanaugh #KetanjiBrownJackson #MiscarriageOfJustice #PresidentTrump #SamuelAlito #SoniaSotomayor #SupremeCourt

https://www.europesays.com/people/138225/ Birthright citizenship ruling: what each Supreme Court justice said #aclu #AmyConeyBarrett #BirthrightCitizenship #BirthrightRuling #BrettKavanaugh #CeciliaWang #ClarenceThomas #DJohnSauer #DonaldTrump #ElenaKagan #FederalLaw #FourteenthAmendment #JohnRoberts #KetanjiBrownJackson #NeilGorsuch #SamuelAlito #SoniaSotomayor #SupremeCourt #TrumpVBarbara #UnitedStates

https://www.europesays.com/people/137941/ The Supreme Court tackled race, history and the law in fraught and reflective major rulings #ClarenceThomas #DonaldTrump #ElenaKagan #ethnicity #GeoffreyPipoly #JohnRoberts #JohnSauer #KetanjiBrownJackson #KristenClarke #Race #SamuelAlito #SoniaSotomayor #USNews #WashingtonNews

Sotomayor Trashes SCOTUS Majority For Cherry-Picking Qualified Immunity Cases To Reverse

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Sotomayor Trashes SCOTUS Majority For Cherry-Picking Qualified Immunity Cases To Reverse

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Supreme Court boosts Trump’s power despite birthright citizenship setback

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#Sotomayor: 'Facts do not matter' to Supreme Court after it upholds #TransAthleteBan

Story by Sebastian Murdock
June 30, 2026

"Supreme Court Justice #SoniaSotomayor gave a blistering dissent after the #conservative-majority court ruled Tuesday to uphold a ban on #TransgenderAthletes playing on female school sports teams.

"Justice #BrettKavanaugh wrote the ruling that upheld that Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause allows bans on transgender girls’ and women’s participation in female school sports to stand.

"All three liberal justices ― Sotomayor, #ElanaKagan and #KetanjiBrownJackson — dissented in part. While they dissented from the majority’s finding on the Equal Protection Clause, they agreed with the court’s conservatives on #TitleIX.

"In her dissent, Sotomayor discussed the 'immense' benefits of playing sports.

“ 'The majority’s opinion ends by reciting the many wonderful ways in which playing sports can be valuable to young people,' Sotomayor said from the bench. 'It can help build resilience, tenacity, leadership, and discipline. It can lead to life-long friendships, community, and a sense of belonging. It can bring joy and the thrill of victory, along with all the lessons one learns from experiencing defeat. The benefits are immense.'

"With Tuesday’s ruling, trans student athletes will now be excluded even when the facts show they do not have an '
'inherent athletic advantage,' she said."

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The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that asylum seekers stopped at the border cannot seek protection abandons the humanitarian purpose of U.S. asylum law in favor of a narrow interpretation of the statute. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/06/30/world/us-top-court-betrayed-asylum-seekers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #us #supremecourt #samuelalito #soniasotomayor #holocaust #humanrights #immigration

El Supremo rechaza el intento de Trump de acabar con el derecho a la ciudadanía por nacimiento en Estados Unidos

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The supreme court has again undermined the power of Congress | Moira Donegan https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/30/supreme-court-trump-v-slaughter #UsSupremeCourt #LawUs #Law #UsNews #TrumpAdministration #DonaldTrump #UsCongress #JohnRoberts #SoniaSotomayor

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US Supreme Court Approves Trump’s Move To End Temporary Protective Status For Haitians And Other Refugees

Remember years ago when the failed US President Joe Biden welcomed a massive number of Haitians to the United States with the temporary protective status (TPS)? That finally ended when the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) approved US President Donald Trump’s authority to put a definitive stop at the TPS of the Haitians as well as other refugees living in America, according to news reports by Breitbart and CBN News. The vote was 6-3.

This development is justice for the nation and the many Americans whose lives got disrupted severely when the numerous, protected Haitians arrived in their local communities causing spikes in rents, taking job opportunities away, entering schools and the like. It also clarifies that the US President has the authority on TPS.

To put things in perspective, posted below is the excerpt from the Breitbart report. Some parts in boldface…

In a 6-3 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court has endorsed President Donald Trump’s authority to end “Temporary Protected Status” for at least 450,000 Haitian migrants welcomed by President Joe Biden.

The judges said Congress’s law bars any judicial review of the White House TPS decisions:

The TPS statute plainly bars consideration of respondents’ non-constitutional claims. It allows “no judicial review of any determination… with respect to the… termination” of a TPS designation. 8 U. S. C. §1254a(b)(5)(A). The term “determination” can be used to describe either an individual decision or the whole process leading to a final decision, and under either understanding of the term, §1254a(b)(5)(A) squarely bars all of respondents’ non-constitutional claims.

The decision is good news for many Americans, including the citizens of Springfield, Ohio. The Ohio town has been radically disrupted because the local elite welcomed at least 10,000 wage-cutting, rent-spiking, diversity-boosting Haitian migrants into the city’s jobs, homes, schools, welfare offices, and roadways.

The decision means that the Haitian migrants will lose their work permits, access to government aid, drivers’ licenses, and legal residency. In turn, employers will face fines if they keep employing the Haitians instead of Americans, and landlords will have to negotiate cheaper rents for Americans as Haitians move out of the local housing market.

Many Haitians were actually provided visas by Biden’s officials to fly from Haiti to American towns — despite the huge economic and civic harm to the millions of left-behind Haitians. The crippling outflow included many doctors, cops, teachers, and politicians.

But the decision is also an economic loss for many investors and a management headache for many employers who hired Haitian migrants instead of competing for Americans in the national labor market.

In April, Breitbart News reported that pro-TPS lobbyists had submitted a legal brief by pro-migration economists which said Biden’s 1.4 million TPS migrants from Haiti, Venezuela, and El Salvador create $20 billion in annual profits for investors.

The report of CBN News mentions Syrians and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s highly unusual way of reading her dissent from the bench. Some parts in boldface…

The Supreme Court issued a key decision on the issue of immigration on Thursday, ruling that the Trump administration has the authority to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for certain refugees living in the U.S.

The immigrants affected by this case were granted Temporary Protected Status under a law passed by Congress in 1990. The program allows the Homeland Security Secretary to let people from certain countries remain and work in the U.S. when conditions back home make it unsafe to return. That same law also gives the secretary the authority to end those protections.

“It gives people protection while the country’s in turmoil or after they suffer a hurricane,” explained Border Czar Tom Homan during a press briefing Thursday.

The Trump administration first announced its plans to end TPS for Haitians in the summer of last year, and for Syrians in the fall. Those decisions were put on hold by lower courts until Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling.

“The decision creates the type of panic, in a sense, that people in our community are wondering what the best action to do now,” said Viles Dorsainvil, who runs a support center for Haitians in Springfield, Ohio.

He and his wife are also now at risk of deportation.

“We are just TPS holders and asylum seekers. So, we’ll be relying on our asylum. We have our permit in the asylum, that we will continue to work. We will continue to do what we gotta do, but we don’t know how long,” Dorsainvil said.

Thursday’s ruling was 6-3, the majority saying Congress gave the Homeland Security Secretary broad discretion over TPS, including the authority to decide when to end it.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor strongly disagreed with the ruling, taking the unusual step of reading her dissent aloud from the bench. “The consequences of today’s decision are predictable,” said Justice Sotomayor. “More people will die.”

“More people will turn back and be subjected to violence because of something they cannot or should not have to change about themselves, such as their race, religion, nationality, or political opinion.”

Following her comments, Justice Samuel Alito, who read the majority decision, remarked that, had he known she planned to read her dissent from the bench, he would have said more in defense of the majority decision.

Let me end this piece by asking you readers: What is your reaction to this development? Has your local community been flooded by foreigners with TPS? Do you think the government should start the process of declaring temporary protective status illegal? Apart from the mentioned investors, who else do you think makes a lot of money out of TPS foreigners in America? What should the Trump administration do about the remaining TPS foreigners from other nations? Do you think US Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor tarnished the Court’s image with her unusual move?

You may answer in the comments below. If you prefer to answer privately, you may do so by sending me a direct message online.

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The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Have One Consistent Rule: Black Votes Shouldn’t Count

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Supreme Court allows Alabama to use congressional map favoring GOP

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Supreme Court Breaks Another Election To Make Sure Black Voters Are Disenfranchised

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Trump officials show extraordinary defiance of court rulings

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Trump usa la sentencia del Supremo que cercena los derechos de las minorías para mejorar sus perspectivas electorales

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Samuel Alito justified a Supreme Court ruling that threatens majority-Black voting districts

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Samuel Alito justified a Supreme Court ruling that threatens majority-Black voting districts

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Justice Gorsuch Reminds: The Fourth Amendment Isn’t Dead Yet

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Justice Gorsuch Reminds: The Fourth Amendment Isn’t Dead Yet

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BRIEF: Supreme Court Lets Texas Use New Congressional Map in 2026 – DrWeb’s Domain

BRIEF: Supreme Court Lets Texas Use New Congressional Map in 2026

BRIEF: Supreme Court Lets Texas Use New Congressional Map in 2026

December 4, 2025 — DrWeb’s Domain

Editor’s Note: I was assisted in preparing this brief on today’s SCOTUS ruling for Trump Administration –again. I sense a pattern?

ChatGPT prepared the brief format, did core online research, and we edited together the summary. I can save and re-use the layout for key new events or information. The summary PDF in inline below, and also linked for you in the Sources. The new site logo for BRIEF was prepared by Sora.–DrWeb

ChatGPT prepared the brief format, did core online research, and we edited together the summary. I can save and re-use the layout for key new events or information. The summary PDF in inline below, and also linked for you in the Sources. –DrWeb

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for Texas to use its new congressional map in the 2026 elections, granting a stay in Abbott v. League of United Latin American Citizens (No. 25A608). The 6–3 order blocks a lower-court ruling that found the map likely discriminates against Latino voters, and keeps in place a plan widely viewed as favorable to Texas Republicans and former President Trump.

The unsigned majority stresses judicial caution about changing election rules once candidate filing is underway, leaning on its recent use of the so-called Purcell principle. It also faults the three-judge district court for not giving enough deference to the legislature’s stated, ostensibly partisan motives, and for moving too aggressively while primaries are already on the calendar.

In dissent, Justice Kagan, joined by Justices Sotomayor and Jackson, accuses the Court of quietly rewriting how Voting Rights Act cases work. The dissent argues that the trial court carefully documented racial vote dilution and that with the 2026 elections still months away, there was ample time to fix the map instead of locking it in for this cycle.

Practically, the ruling means Texas keeps a map that could help Republicans hold or gain House seats in a closely divided Congress, and it raises the bar for future challenges to partisan-tilted maps nationwide. It is another sign that federal oversight of redistricting is shrinking, even as states openly redraw lines to maximize partisan advantage.

Sources

1. Supreme Court of the United States, Abbott v. League of United Latin American Citizens, No. 25A608 (Dec. 4, 2025) — Opinion and dissent (PDF)
2. Associated Press — “Supreme Court allows Texas to use a congressional map favorable to Republicans in 2026”
3. Reuters — “Supreme Court revives pro-Republican Texas voting map sought by Trump”
4. SCOTUSblog — Case summary and analysis of the Texas redistricting stay

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Sonia Sotomayor: The People’s Justice and the Voice of Conscience – A Special SCOTUS Series

Sonia Sotomayor: The People’s Justice and the Voice of Conscience

Early Life and Education

Sonia Maria Sotomayor was born in 1954 in the Bronx, New York, to Puerto Rican parents who had migrated to the mainland after World War II. Her father, a tool-and-die worker, died when she was nine, leaving her mother, Celina, to raise Sonia and her brother on a nurse’s salary. Sotomayor credits her mother’s fierce determination and belief in education as the foundation of her success. Inspired by television’s Perry Mason, she dreamed of becoming a judge even as a child.

She attended Cardinal Spellman High School, graduating at the top of her class, and went on to Princeton University, where she excelled despite cultural and social isolation. Sotomayor graduated summa cum laude in 1976 and earned her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1979. At Yale, she served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal and began developing a passion for criminal law and public service.

Career Before the Court

After law school, Sotomayor joined the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office under Robert Morgenthau, prosecuting violent crimes in the Bronx during one of the city’s most turbulent eras. Her trial experience and empathy for victims shaped her pragmatic approach to justice. In 1984, she entered private practice, specializing in intellectual property and international law at Pavia & Harcourt.

In 1992, President George H. W. Bush appointed her to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, making her the youngest federal trial judge in the district at the time. She later joined the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit under President Bill Clinton in 1998, where she gained a reputation as a careful, analytical jurist who blended compassion with rigorous reasoning.

Nomination and Confirmation

President Barack Obama nominated Sotomayor to the Supreme Court in 2009 to replace retiring Justice David Souter. Her confirmation hearings drew intense public attention, particularly to her statement that a “wise Latina woman” might reach better conclusions than others because of her life experiences. Critics seized on the remark, but Sotomayor defended it as an acknowledgment that background informs perspective, not a claim of superiority. The Senate confirmed her 68–31, making her the first Latina and the third woman ever to serve on the Court.

Judicial Philosophy

Sotomayor is generally described as a pragmatic liberal. Her jurisprudence reflects a belief that the law should respond to the lived realities of ordinary people. She often writes in plain, accessible prose, ensuring that her opinions can be understood by non-lawyers. She emphasizes procedural fairness, the rights of defendants, and the importance of equal justice under law.

While she aligns with the Court’s progressive bloc, Sotomayor distinguishes herself through vivid, personal dissents that appeal to the moral dimensions of law. Her writings often highlight the human impact of judicial decisions — a quality that has earned her the nickname “the People’s Justice.”

Signature Opinions and Influence

• Criminal Justice Reform: Sotomayor’s dissents in cases such as Utah v. Strieff (2016) and Johnson v. United States (2015) challenge systemic bias in policing and sentencing. She wrote powerfully about the “constant surveillance” faced by marginalized communities.
• Race and Equality: In Schuette v. BAMN (2014) and Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (2023), she defended affirmative action as a necessary remedy for historic discrimination, framing equality as a lived reality rather than an abstract ideal.
• Immigration: Sotomayor has consistently voiced concern for due process in immigration enforcement, dissenting in cases where the majority favored executive or state authority over individual rights.
• Public Health and Pandemic Policy: During COVID-19 litigation, Sotomayor’s opinions reflected strong deference to science and government efforts to protect public health, even amid religious liberty challenges.

Legacy and Public Presence

Justice Sotomayor’s influence extends beyond her written opinions. She is one of the most visible public figures on the Court, frequently speaking about education, civic engagement, and representation. Her memoir, My Beloved World, became a bestseller, offering an unvarnished look at her upbringing and philosophy. She has also served as a mentor to countless students and lawyers of color who see her as a symbol of possibility within the American legal system.

In a Court dominated by conservative voices, Sotomayor’s dissents have become rallying points for those who fear the erosion of civil rights and liberties. Her plainspoken, empathetic style ensures that her voice — even in dissent — resonates far beyond the marble halls.

Works Cited

• Biskupic, Joan. Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice. Sarah Crichton Books, 2014.
• Greenhouse, Linda. “Justice Sotomayor’s Dissent Is a Warning to the Court.” The New York Times, 29 June 2023, http://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/opinion/sonia-sotomayor-supreme-court-dissent.html. Accessed 25 Sept. 2025.
• Liptak, Adam. “Sonia Sotomayor, a Trailblazer on the Supreme Court.” The New York Times, 6 Aug. 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/us/politics/06confirm.html. Accessed 25 Sept. 2025.
• Sotomayor, Sonia. My Beloved World. Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
• Supreme Court of the United States. “Biography of Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor.” SupremeCourt.gov, http://www.supremecourt.gov/about/biographysotomayor.aspx. Accessed 25 Sept. 2025.

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