Sonia Sotomayor Hopes Supreme Court Overturns Presidential Immunity Decision

Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor stated during an event at the George Washington Presidential Library that she hopes the court will overturn its 2024 decision on presidential immunity, according to the Washington Examiner. The Washington Examiner, The Hill, USA Today, inkl, and Raw Story all report that Sotomayor expressed hope that several decisions from which she dissented will be reversed during her lifetime. [1][3][4][5][6][8]

The Washington Examiner, USA Today, inkl, and Raw Story reported that Sotomayor spoke about her record of dissenting from the bench. Sotomayor remarked that she dissents a lot and expressed hope that the court will take back some of the crazy things it has done, before adding that she was only joking or maybe not. [1][4][5][6]

Sotomayor serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, which is the highest court in the federal judiciary. She was nominated to the court by President Barack Obama on May 26, 2009, and has served as a justice since August 8, 2009. She is the third woman to serve on the bench. [7][8]

As FTMQ News reported earlier, Sotomayor previously joined Justice Neil Gorsuch in criticizing a constitutional absurdity after the Supreme Court declined to review an immigration case involving a Mexican national who had been charged twice with entering the United States. [9]