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The usual sources of outrage are all atwitter over the fact that Justice Sotomayor isn’t a queen with the authority to demand that other justices wear face gags at her behest. Apparently, the overweight and diabetic Sotomayor wants everyone around her to take extra precautions to care for her after she didn’t care for herself, which puts her in a higher risk category for COVID complications. While her Type 1 diabetes was not avoidable, Sotomayor’s weight problem is surely manageable through diet and exercise. She isn’t hiring a personal trainer or going on a diet; oh no, that would require...

On Saturday, July 8, 2009, Sonya Sotomayer will be sworn in as Justice Souter’s replacement and will serve as the most junior Associate seated on the Supreme Court. When the Justices are in chambers, private conferences, the current practice of the court is the most junior Associate Justice is tasked with any menial task the Justices may require as they convene alone. The other justices may require answering the door of the conference room, serving coffee, and transmitting the orders of the court to the court’s clerk. Justice Joseph Story served longest for 4,228 days. Justice Breyer served for 4,199...

Supreme Court divided over fight for Trump's financial records BY JOHN KRUZEL - 05/12/20 02:53 PM EDT The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared divided over President Trump’s assertion that the broad powers he enjoys as the nation’s chief executive override subpoenas for his financial records and tax returns. Trump’s standoff with a trio of Democratic-led House committees and Manhattan prosecutors over his financial paper trail saw the justices raise divergent concerns about presidential immunity, congressional oversight and the power of prosecutors to gather evidence linked to a sitting president. The first argument in Tuesday’s pair of overlapping cases concerned a...

In the Supreme Court Oral Argument on Congressional Subpoenas for President Trump's Financial Records broadcast live, Justice Sonya Sotomayor slipped up and said "WE" are asking for his personal tax returns", while questioning President Trump's lawyer Patrick Strawbridge. Her use of "WE" instead of referring properly to the Congressional subpoena showed her true colors. Audio and transcript at 16:25 in the embedded video on the C-SPAN link.

One wonders how Ed Whelan of the Ethics and Public Policy Center managed to get a hold of a private letter sent to President Obama by Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe advising him against nominating Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, but be that as it may, its contents are quite interesting and show just how nakedly political Tribe’s view of a justice really is and also how little he thinks of Sotomayor. In the May 2009 letter (PDF link here), Tribe advises Obama to refrain from choosing Sotomayor because “she’s not nearly as smart as she seems to think...

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