As the conservative majority’s power has grown, the US institution’s left-leaning justices have registered their alarm
During her 2009 confirmation hearing before the US Senate, Sonia Sotomayor declared that the president “can’t act in violation of the constitution. No one is above the law”. Back then, she was answering a question about former president George W Bush’s application of a bill banning torture.
A decision to reverse a ban on “bump stocks”, a device to increase the firepower of rifles, would have “deadly consequences”, she wrote. In dissenting from the homelessness case, she said: “Sleep is a biological necessity, not a crime.” Sotomayor’s dissent in the presidential immunity case was perhaps her fiercest this term. She painted a grim picture of how the decision could allow a president to lead with impunity. “Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune.
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