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Supreme Court Justice Torches Colleagues’ ‘Crazy’ Rulings

Justice Sonia Sotomayor wants the Trump immunity ruling overturned.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has warned that America is experiencing a “rough patch” for the rule of law and lashed out at some of the court’s rulings.

Sotomayor said, “I think we’re in a rough patch right now. There’s so many challenges to it on so many different levels. This is a really critical point in our history,” reported Politico. “Is it going to end tomorrow? No.”

“It’s going to take some hard work. I don’t know how long it’s going to take to put us back on an even keel,” Sotomayor said Saturday at an event to discuss the future of U.S. democracy, at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate.

Sotomayor, 72, an Obama appointee, questioned decisions by conservative colleagues who make up the court’s majority.

She singled out for criticism the 2024 decision that Donald Trump could not be prosecuted for acts considered part of his job as president. Sotomayor was one of three liberal justices who dissented from the decision in the 6-3 ruling.

“There are some opinions that I hope in my lifetime will get overturned. The immunity case is one of them,” Sotomayor said.

She also said: “We’ll settle down too. I’m not quite sure when, but we will, and a new order will be established that people will begin to understand… I’m hoping that the court will take back some of the crazy things that it’s done. I’m only joking—maybe not.”

Trump’s supporters have urged conservative Justices Clarence Thomas, 78, and Samuel Alito, 76, to step down before Democrats take control of the Senate after the midterm elections. But both have previously said they do not plan to retire, and CBS News reported that the result of the midterms has not changed their minds.

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The Supreme Court has issued a series of controversial rulings during Trump’s second term, expanding the president’s executive authority. The court has also strengthened the president’s power to fire federal agency chiefs, and in other controversial rulings has upheld bans on transgender athletes in high school sports, and struck down federal campaign spending limits.

The court has also provoked the president’s ire, ruling in February that sweeping new tariffs declared under emergency powers were unconstitutional. Trump described the ruling as a “disgrace to our nation,” and criticized “lapdog” conservative justices.

In her remarks, Sotomayor said America was losing its sense of how to disagree respectfully.

“That someone disagrees with you doesn’t make them a bad person, and that’s something we’ve forgotten,” she said.

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