The Brandeis Medal recognizes recipients chosen for their "devotion to economic, social or political justice and for advancing the cause of public service in the legal profession." ...
In 1996, Judge Sonia Sotomayor delivered a speech to law students that she then turned into a law-review article (which she co-authored with Nicole A. Gordon), “Returning Majesty to the Law and ...
The Supreme Court upheld a law requiring a sale or ban of TikTok, but Justice Sonia Sotomayor disagreed with part of the decision.
1996—In a muddled speech on the “majesty of the law” at Suffolk University law school, then-district judge Sonia Sotomayor complains that “the public fails to appreciate the importance of ...
On April 4, Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke with Justice Albie Sachs, formerly of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, for the launch of the Guarini Institute for Global Legal Studies at NYU School ...
Justice Sonia Sotomayor accuses the majority of generally diminishing small-R “republican” values by creating a regime where “the President is now a king above the law.” And, on the ...
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, 70, wrote in a powerful dissenting ... In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law" She continued by claiming that with the ...
But in 2016, the movement for reform did have one high-profile, inside-the-system advocate—indeed, in the highest court in the country: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. In an unusually ...
Judge Sotomayor was part of a panel that rejected the challenge brought by white firefighters who scored high but were denied promotion. Judge Sotomayor dissented in this case concerning the ...
The Supreme Court seems inclined to revive a civil rights lawsuit against the Texas police officer who shot a man to death ...
Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch wrote separately, with Gorsuch agreeing with the outcome of the case but splitting ...