Tag: Sonia Sotomayor

Blaine Amendments were designed to impede the growth of Catholic parochial schools and the threat they supposedly posed to the Protestant education system that prevailed in most public schools at the time. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Justice Kennedy, tear down this wall

Washington Examiner · April 20, 2017 4:03 am

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court scrapped the provocation rule because of its inconsistency with existing court precedent. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Tempers flare at Supreme Court over religious liberty case

Ryan Lovelace · April 19, 2017 5:24 pm

Three Supreme Court justices wrote tributes to the late Justice Antonin Scalia in the April Yale Law Journal lauding his lasting influence on the law. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

Supreme Court justices write tribute to Antonin Scalia in Yale Law Journal

Ryan Lovelace · April 18, 2017 7:47 pm

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that judges are "human beings who care deeply about what we're doing." (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Sonia Sotomayor saddened by perception of judges as political

Ryan Lovelace · March 10, 2017 3:42 pm

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Supreme Court: Jury deliberations may be probed for evidence of racial bias

Kelly Cohen · March 6, 2017 5:05 pm

Judge earned high marks from several people who clerked for Gorsuch on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Former Sotomayor law clerk, Kagan attorney praise Gorsuch

Ryan Lovelace · February 1, 2017 2:20 am

Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered the opinion, which is a partial win for Samsung. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)

Supreme Court sides with Samsung in its patent fight with Apple

Ryan Lovelace · December 6, 2016 3:41 pm

Sotomayor Declines to Sound the Alarm about Trump

Chris Deaton · November 16, 2016 12:29 pm

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor urged Americans frustrated by the election's outcome not to grow despondent, but to speak out. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Sotomayor on election: ‘We can’t afford to despair and we can’t afford to give up’

Ryan Lovelace · November 16, 2016 1:36 am

While celebrating civility in public discourse on Monday night, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor joked she had thought about hitting her deceased colleague Antonin Scalia with a baseball bat due to their differences in opinion. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Supreme Court judge jokes about hitting Scalia with a baseball bat

Anna Giaritelli · October 19, 2016 2:23 am

Trump's response follows criticism of his "racist attacks" against the judge in the Trump University case. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Trump fine letting Sotomayor rule on immigration case

Gabby Morrongiello · June 24, 2016 6:59 pm

You Won’t Believe What Happened When Justice Sotomayor Dissented

Ethan Epstein · June 22, 2016 11:46 am