Sonia Sotomayor foreshadows Supreme Court 'dismantling' administrative state

Democratic-appointed Justice Sonia Sotomayor lamented the Supreme Court decision she accused of “dismantling” the administrative state Thursday, a possible sign of what’s to come as rulings threaten to claw back more agency powers from the executive branch.

Sotomayor, who stands with only two other ideologically similar jurists on the Supreme Court’s 6-3 Republican-appointed majority high court, dissented after the majority ruled that the 7th Amendment right to a jury trial bars the Securities and Exchange Commission from conducting their own prosecutions.