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2025-02-09 -Great Cultural Revolution

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 08:08|| || Front Page|| [11153 views ] Top

#1 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.

No, your other SCOTUS members are placing the Constitution before precedents. The reason the court is losing confidence is clearly displayed by the partisan hacks in robes who fail to grasp the text of the Constitution.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-02-09 08:47|| 2025-02-09 08:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Commies gotta Commie.

Posted by Hupoluth Dribble3876 2025-02-09 09:34|| 2025-02-09 09:34|| Front Page Top

#3 The majority of the public supports a rapid return of our country to its original course. Her vocal minority won’t be happy until we run aground.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-02-09 10:28|| 2025-02-09 10:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Coming from Sotomayor that proves we are on the right path.

Posted by DarthVader 2025-02-09 12:02|| 2025-02-09 12:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Lots of brouhaha over the obvious overreach of so many federal judges outside of the Supremes and virtually no information about historical precedents and what Congress can do under the Constitution in regulating federal courts.
See Act of March 3, 1863, 12 Stat. 762 which eliminat the then-existing DC circuit court, district court, and criminal court without providing for continued service by the sitting judges. One problematic judge simply lost his position. New judges on the new court system were then appointed & ratified in the usual way and did the usual thing. The judge that was "fired" this way turned out to be appointed to the replacement court - in 1885. He died in 1889.
Does anything prohibit the Congress from abolishing the DC court system one more time? I expect in response to this, as per usual.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2025-02-09 13:37|| 2025-02-09 13:37|| Front Page Top

#6 I have posted comments like the above in many other internet venues & have gotten zero response. Apparently none read them. "I expect in response to this, as per usual, will be the sounds of crickets"

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2025-02-09 13:39|| 2025-02-09 13:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Congress continues to be asleep at the switch, only interested in cashing every paycheck and collecting every benefit of office they can. Remember the entire House of Representatives is up for reelection in Nov 2026, along with about 1/3 of the US Senate.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2025-02-09 13:49|| 2025-02-09 13:49|| Front Page Top

#8 /\ All available evidence and observations certianly confirms #7.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-02-09 13:51|| 2025-02-09 13:51|| Front Page Top

#9 I hadn’t thought of that solution to the judge problem. It would be worth having Big Balls plot all the circuit judges with a rating of their activism to see whether a version of Operation Bottomblow is possible.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-02-09 14:48|| 2025-02-09 14:48|| Front Page Top

#10 I have posted comments like the above in many other internet venues & have gotten zero response.

Possibly others are doing what I did, dear Anguper Hupomosing9418 — I read the whole thing and it sounds good to me, but I know absolutely nothing about such things, so can’t add or argue.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-02-09 22:17|| 2025-02-09 22:17|| Front Page Top

#11 Thanks for reading the whole thing. I keep hoping some lawyer will write a little bit somewhere about the possibility.

Posted by q 2025-02-09 23:14|| 2025-02-09 23:14|| Front Page Top

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