Justice Sotomayor Accuses Supreme Court of "Gross" Abuse

Sotomayor Accuses Conservative Justices of Enabling Trump’s 'Lawlessness’ in Emergency Ruling

In a sharp rebuke to her conservative colleagues, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor accused the Court of “rewarding lawlessness” after a 6-3 decision allowed the Trump administration to deport immigrants to countries they’ve never lived in — including dangerous, war-torn nations like South Sudan and Libya. The ruling overturned a federal judge’s order that required the government to give deportees a fair chance to argue their case before bei…

Sotomayor Outlawyers Supreme Court Majority In Shadow Docket Deportation Ruling - Above the Law

(Photo by Jacquelyn Martin-Pool/Getty Images) For those keeping score in the high-stakes game of Constitutional Calvinball, that is DVD v. DHS, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority just issued a one-paragraph shadow docket ruling staying a preliminary injunction entered by Judge Brian Murphy of the District of Massachusetts (and blessed by the First Circuit) that had prohibited the Trump administration from deporting people to third countri…

Liberal Justices Slam ‘Incomprehensible’ SCOTUS Majority in Furious Dissent

The Supreme Court’s senior liberal, Sonia Sotomayor, had plenty to say.

Sotomayor accuses Supreme Court of ‘rewarding lawlessness’ by Trump in fiery dissent

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court’s senior liberal, slammed the Trump administration’s handling of immigration matters in a fiery dissent Monday and accused her colleagues of “rewarding lawlessness” by backing its latest emergency appeal.

'Gross abuse': Liberal Supreme Court justices rip ruling on Trump deportations

In the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling Monday that permitted President Donald Trump to resume migrant deportations to countries like El Salvador and Guatemala, the three dissenting judges slammed the decision as a “gross abuse of the court’s equitable discretion.”Invoking the 1798 Alien Enemies Act,...