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Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor Suggests Court Is Overturning Precedents Too Quickly
[Epoch Times] U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia "Wise Latina" Sotomayor said the conservative majority on the Court is overturning so many longstanding precedents so quickly that public confidence in it is flagging.  "I think my Court would probably gather more public support if it went a little more slowly in undoing precedent," Sotomayor said on Feb. 5 in remarks at the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law in Kentucky.Public approval of the High Court stood at 44 percent in September 2024, with 51 percent disapproving, according to Gallup polling. Court approval has been underwater since September 2021 when it was 40 percent to 53 percent. President Donald Trump’s third conservative appointee, Amy Coney Barrett, joined the Court in October 2020. So public opinion has improved since the 'conservative justices' came into 'power'. Since Trump’s first term began, the Court reversed Roe v. Wade, finding there was no constitutional right to abortion, ended affirmative action in the college admission process, and upheld broad immunity for presidents for official acts. Sotomayor did not identify specific precedents but said the public becomes wary when the Court "moves too quickly in upheavals." Well, the public must be super-hyper wary since January 20. Posted by: Bobby 2025-02-09 |
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