Justice Sonia Sotomayor rips Brett Kavanaugh with a warning

[turbinetree]

By David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement
Published April 22, 2021

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered a strong warning to the American people and a strong rebuke of Justice Brett Kavanaugh and the newest far right wing Justices on the Trump-shaped conservative-majority Court in a blistering but brilliant dissent handed down Thursday.

Justice Sotomayor warned this newly-constructed Court, unevenly weighted with six justices (ranging from highly conservative to far right wing religious extremist,) is "willing to overrule precedent without even acknowledging it is doing so, much less providing any special justification."

That warning is similar to those posed by legal experts from the left who were extremely opposed to then-President Donald Trump's final Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett. Justice Barrett's judicial opinions made clear she will not honor precedent, known as stare decisis. Without that legal guardrail many decidedly settled law targets of conservatives, from the right to choose an abortion to the right to marry, could be struck down by the "Trump Court."

https://www.rawstory.com/sonia-soto/

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Slate's legal expert Mark Joseph Stern calls the ruling in the case "barbarous," Sotomayor's warning "ominous," and her criticism of Kavanaugh "one of the most savage passages she has ever written."

[dem4decades]

1. They deserve no quarter. She should cut them to pieces.

[DENVERPOPS]

26. Better yet

Put her in a room with that wimp and let her physically kick his ass...........

[TreasonousBastard]

2. She is right-- no way can a court overrule prior decisions without a good reason...

To do so is anarchy.

[PatSeg]

28. And that would make them "activist justices"

who make law instead of interpreting it, something the right likes to accuse liberals of. They are almost always guilty of whatever they accuse the left of. Isn't it time for them to retire this old and obvious trick?

[soothsayer]

3. Related

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215364607

[turbinetree]

6. Thank you................

[sheshe2]

4. Thank you Justice Sotomayor.

I hope this is not how the six wish to be remembered in our history books. Sadly I think most or all of them don't give a shit.

[ramapo]

8. They don't care

They have as much concern as Mitch did when he rammed Barret through confirmation despite his made up Garland rule. The worst is yet to come

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

10. Agree. They bask in the scorn from the left.

And they will probably outlast Sotomayor on the Supreme Court.

I felt sick when I heard of Ruth Bader Ginsberg's passing. For good reason.

[Grokenstein]

5. Wonder if Judge Boof threw a shrieking tantrum in response.

[speak easy]

7. Impeach his ass.

No we cannot get a conviction, but it's time to rip his to shreds.

[NoMoreRepugs]

9. The courts decision so contrary to recognized legal precedent helps to provide more reason

for Team Biden to expand the Supreme Court. Thanks dumbasses.

[Dan]

11. What would the GOP do?

Increase the number of Justices on the Court.

Wouldn’t apologize for doing it.

Would not give a damn what the other side thinks.

Smile while they are doing it.

And, say they are doing it to bring balance to the Court.

[fescuerescue]

19. If the Republicans had ever gotten control the Whitehouse, Senate and House

you know they would have jumped at the chance to pack the court.

[quakerboy]

12. They are doing what they were paid to do

Im surprised its taken them this long to do so. Expect more. Far more.

[turbinetree]

13. Yeah I keep thinking of ALEC............

[quakerboy]

14. What happened to K's debts?

When will there be a real investigation of his past actions and or consequences for lying under oath?

How much money has Thomas been paid via his family to take the positions he takes?

[turbinetree]

22. For that matter both the Gorsuch and Barrett scum bags

we really don't know what Gina is doing behind the scenes except she support that traitor and what he did on Jan 6.......

[quakerboy]

29. Im not as familiar with either of them,

But on the front end, they both seem intelligent enough to avoid answering questions rather than lying under oath. Do either of them have similar financial questions hanging over their heads?

[NullTuples]

15. It's not the Trump court, he was just a useful jester.

It's McConnell's court, along with all the other federal courts. He built it and I hate how he repeatedly slips into the shadows whenever blame is placed or fingers pointed.

[msfiddlestix]

16. Keep on seeing about a "Warning" but it's never stated

What the hell is the Warning that Sotomayor issued? I get she ripped him a new one, but what was the "Warning"?

[SmartVoter22]

17. Use SCOTUS own 'Congress can fix this' approach

Let SCOTUS use it's own words and strong suggestions.

Yes, Congress can fix this by passing a simple law that clearly defines federal court evidences. What is evidence?
It can be past court rulings, as they are in fact, actual facts in a case. Require all cases to cite and present all related stare decisis pertaining to a case. Right now it's on the whim of prosecutors or defense lawyers, or sometines the judges
Once Congress requires all federal benches to use stare decisis as a component of all cases heard, Kavanaugh and Barrett's own personal opinions become useless. Stare Decisis is tangible evidence, presented in past cases and other federal courts. This evidence can be required with a case filing, just like any other case where arrest records, medical records or other legal documents, pertinent to the case are presented as evidence.

This would only make past stare decisis decisions, or arguments a vital part of every case. Whether it's used by either side, during arguments, wouldn't matter. It just puts those past court procedures on the record and therefore eliminate an individual justices own zealous faith-based charge of the light brained brigade.

Yes, Congress can and should fix this.

[BobTheSubgenius]

18. This SCOTUS scares the pants off me.

For some reason, I visualize the Spanish Inquisition.

[Blue Owl]

20. Boof's been Sotorized

[Mike Nelson]

21. Tried to...

... read more on RawStory, but they are getting worse with their set-up. It's so reader unfriendly, now... I used to have it as a "Favorites" and mostly avoid it now... before the screen went unreadable, I saw a little more of the article. It looks like the Conservatives didn't even try to show the 15-year-old was irredeemable. The are getting bold, then...

[BarbD]

23. Time to expand the Supreme Court.

It's up to Congress.

[kairos12]

24. The Court will make decisions that will

please the Taliban.

[Grins]

25. Someone should tell Sens. Collins, Smith & Murkowsky...

[soldierant]

27. It is a crying shame

that Brett Kavanagh did not get tried and convicted for sexual assaoult as a juvenile, and get sentenced to life without parole.

Of course that would have requires incredible prescience on the part of karma. But it's still a crying shame that it didn't happen.

[quakerboy]

30. Does this have any real world effect?

Lecturing a guy who was cool with lying under oath and having literal public tempertantrums at legislators who pointed out his glaring flaws seems unlikely to be effective unless it comes with real world consequences for that particular liar.