Sotomayor accuses Supreme Court of bias in favor of Trump administration

Our founding fathers envisioned a Supreme Court that would maintain a position of power above politics--one devoted completely on the U.S. Constitution & its interpretation. When they created the Constitution, political parties didn't exist, so they failed to foresee how parties would impact the court. That first became apparent during the election of 1800, & has never relented since. That any Supreme Court leans in favor of the presiding President, is not new. The troubling thing about leaning in favor of this particular President, is his strong tendency toward authoritarianism coupled with his determination to dismantle the existing government based on the Constitution he swore an oath to uphold. The Supreme Court SHOULD be our strongest barrier to Trump & his ambitions in this regard. According to Sotomayor, it isn't, & that's troubling.

 

Sure hope there are not any stringsattached to that Trump Doll cause I kinda got burned rather badly supporting all the previous puppets since Reagan and sure hope Trump is NOT going to join that list

 

Hey Sonya! Almost half of the Supreme Court is biased AGAINST Trump! You go, girl!

 

Puerto Ricans like myself, dad and son thinks she's an idiot.

 

She has stepped over the line, Look, she was never qualified to be a Justice, never. Now we see her blatantly politicizing the Court. Affirmative action fails again.

The best thing that can happen is a 2nd Trump term and replacing RBG and Breyer with two conservatives. That will leave Sotomayor isolated as even Kagan will shun her.

 

yep, the rich like Trump import wives pretty easily

 

Say it ain't so!

 

It’s ironic, siding with the admin is siding with the the rule of law

 

She's a leftist and so she hopes to bring them into ideological line with the awesome power of peer pressure. It WOULD work on most Dem Party adherents after all.

 

The court isn't leaning towards Trump. Its leaning towards the constitution. These lesser courts are basing judgments on "feelings" and biases and the Supreme court is centering back to constitutional authority.

 

This is a direct assault on the judicial branch. She needs to resign

 

Precisely. The truth is that most of those Right of Center judges probably loathe Trump. It's just that Trump is pro-Constitution and they are pro-Constitution.

 

I agree..john Roberts being an example of a non Trumper

 

Your unproven smears against Kavanaugh and others are repulsive. Are you that naive to believe Anita Hill and the other frauds?

 

If we can't get nine conservatives on the court, I'll settle for 8-1 if we have to.

 

I've read some of her decisions, and I was actually shocked. They read more like the Facebook posts of an ultra-liberal, hysterical soccer mom than anything you'd expect an actual judge to write, let alone a supreme court justice.

She clearly has very little use for the Constitution, and she only pays lip service to it on the rare occasions when she doesn't let her emotions trump legal precedent.

 

She was so obviously simply a Politically Correct token of Obama's that no meaningful vetting of her legal background was performed. Nobody DARED vote to strike down a Latina judge candidate and KNOWN radical leftist. Obama was in charge of the nation at that time and the Mainstream Media was in full legs-tingling worship mode of the man and would have tried to destroy anyone bucking him. She could have dropped drawers and pooped on the U.S. flag and still have gotten the position . . . and her actions and 'opinions' since then prove every bit of that.

 

And following the Constitution is what the left views as bad

 

You sound a bit ruffled. Best thing to do in that case is rally behind Komrad Bernie Freeshit Sanders. He will fix everything for you.

 

I’m sure she’s a wonderful woman. I’d love to have her as a neighbor. She’s just not very deep intellectually.

 

Sotomayor accuses Supreme Court of bias in favor of Trump administration

It is what happens whenever the majority of justices lean a different way than you do. Elections have consequences, even for the supreme court.

 

Sotomayer, good reason to vote for Trump AGAIN!

 

Can’t wait til trump wins re-election and gets to pick another justices

 

I can already hear lefties screaming at the sky.

 

There has always been some hypocrisy between the rhetoric of "American values" and the reality of American life. Maybe it has to do with our political system driven by public approval for votes? In the early part of the 19th century, we loudly and boastfully spoke of "Greek Freedom," in the Greek wars to escape the Ottoman Empire. But, practically, Greece was a long, long ways away so we actually did basically nothing. No ships were sent. No troops deployed. No aid provided.
Our immigration policies have been similar. America, the Promised Land, DID welcome "the tired, the poor, and the huddled masses," in the years of industrial growth, which required labor intensive production. After that, immigration continued to be fueled by amnesty programs for our failed interventions abroad, from the South and Central America to Southeast Asia. The final phase was Africa, the Middle East, and the post-Cold War Eastern Europe. But, the major problem today facing both incoming immigrants and America's own blue collar workers is globalization and automation. It is easier today, given U.S. regulations, for a corporation to move overseas than it is to expand production here. Immigration now conflicts with the capitalist maxim of "the best product at the lowest price." That means the least labor cost available, which is not to be found here.