Sotomayor Exposed the Court Conservatives’ Hypocrisy With One Line

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Photo caption: Formal group photograph of the Supreme Court as it was comprised on June 30, 2022. Seated from left are Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., and Justices Samuel A. Alito and Elena Kagan. Standing from left are Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil M. Gorsuch, Brett M. Kavanaugh, and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Photo credit: Fred Schilling (Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States), Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. Article by Melissa Gira Grant. The New Republic – July 1, 2024.

The Supreme Court’s striking 6–3 ruling in Donald Trump’s immunity case on Monday means that it will be that much more difficult to use the criminal courts to hold a former president accountable, giving the president more power to act with impunity. The same justices who ruled to jail people who are homeless and sleeping outdoors even if there is no shelter, whose ruling in Dobbs turned millions of people’s abortions into a crime, now say that applying the same criminal justice system to the president as to the voters that elected him threatens the rule of law. […]

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