Sonia Sotomayor Video and Articles

President Obama's Anti-Gun…

28 Dec 2011

…up President Clinton’s push for gun control when she worked for his White House during the 1990s. And Justice Sonia Sotomayor has signed on to a Supreme Court opinion stating that there is no individual right to "private self-defense" with… ...

Perry Announces Iowa Bus Tour

10 Dec 2011

…Register, whose endorsement is valued by presidential candidates. Perry fumbled for six seconds trying to name Justice Sonia Sotomayor before calling her "Montemayor." An editorial-board member eventually helped him out. One possible explanation… ...

Supreme Court OKs Selling Pharmacy Data

23 Jun 2011

…s majority opinion was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor. Stephen Breyer wrote the dissenting opinion, which was joined by Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan. ...

Juvenile Miranda Protections Expanded

16 Jun 2011

…circumstances would feel free to leave," Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for the court, joined by Justices Anthony Kennedy…
…warnings of possible "juvenile detention before court," Sotomayor recounted. J.D.B., who received neither a rights… ...

Sotomayor Gets $1.2 Million for Book

27 May 2011

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says she received nearly $1.2 million to write a memoir of her rise from a South Bronx housing project to the nation's highest court. ...

Court Upholds Arizona Immigration Law

26 May 2011

…s. Three members of the high court's liberal wing dissented: Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor. Justice Elena Kagan did not participate in the case because she worked on it previously while serving as US solicitor… ...

Supreme Court Orders Release of Inmates

23 May 2011

…he wrote. "The state shall implement the order without delay." Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan joined the majority. Justice Clarence Thomas joined Justice Scalia's dissent, while Justice Samuel… ...

Prison Populations Order Upheld

23 May 2011

…areas." Joining Kennedy in the majority opinion were Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice Stephen Breyer, Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Elena Kagan. Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Antonin Scalia, Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice… ...

Gingrich: Nation At Crossroads

15 May 2011

…rhetoric — has the temperament and discipline to be president. Last year, he suggested U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor was a racist, said Obama is best understood by his "Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior," and argued that placing… ...

Supreme Court Mulls Microsoft Appeal

18 Apr 2011

…should apply in cases involving new evidence that the Patent Office did not consider. Ginsburg, Breyer and Justice Sonia Sotomayor all suggested that the issue could be addressed by better jury instructions in patent cases without lowering the burden… ...

Justices Appear Skeptical of 9/11 Case

03 Mar 2011

…and al-Kidd's treatment. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called the detention conditions "disturbing" and Justice Sonia Sotomayor suggested there was cause to check against prosecutors' power to detain "willy-nilly." Al-Kidd was detained… ...

Chief Justice Decries Partisan Brawling

01 Jan 2011

…19 judicial nominees in December, making a total of 62 since Obama took office, including Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. At the same point in Bush's presidency, the Senate had confirmed 100 judicial nominees. Senate… ...

Many Obama Judicial Picks Not Confirmed

23 Dec 2010

…Obama did get 62 federal judicial picks through the Senate in the past two years, including Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, 16 appellate judges and 44 district judges. By contrast, during the first Congress of George W… ...

Virginia Woman's Execution To Proceed

21 Sep 2010

…a female for the first time in nearly a century. A Court spokeswoman added that Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor voted to stop the execution of Teresa Lewis, who is scheduled to die by legal injection on Thursday. Lewis, 40… ...

Kagan Sworn In As Supreme Court Justice

07 Aug 2010

…on the nine-member court when it begins its fall session October 1. Along with Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, Kagan will make up the first three-woman bloc in the Court’s history. The only other woman to serve on the Court was… ...

Scott Brown votes against Kagan

05 Aug 2010

…tally was 63-37. Kagan is the fourth woman to serve the court and will join two others, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, among the current justices. "When it comes to the Supreme Court, experience matters," Brown said in a statement… ...

Senate Confirms Kagan to Supreme Court

05 Aug 2010

…the Senate considered Obama's first pick, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and former President George W. Bush's two nominees…
…other women on the court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sotomayor, who was Obama's first nominee. Sandra Day O… ...

Howard Dean Discusses Gingrich Return

25 Jul 2010

…Sherrod had been unfairly maligned. Wallace also reproduced a tweet that Gingrich had posted last year suggesting that Sonia Sotomayor, then a nominee to the Supreme Court, was racist for her famous “wise Latina” line. Gingrich said in the… ...