Sotomayor Accuses Supreme Court of Granting Favors to Trump in Blistering Dissent

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The Supreme Court unveiled a 5-4 decision on Friday to allow the Trump administration to deny entry or green cards to immigrants based on a “wealth test,” claiming that low-income immigrants were likely to become a “public charge” and use social programs such as food stamps or Medicaid. All four justices nominated by Democrats voted against the case. Justice Sonia Sotomayor authored the blistering dissent and accused the court’s conservatives of bias in favor of Trump.

Sotomayor said the administration has too quickly gone to the Supreme Court to appeal unfavorable decisions made by lower courts, and that by taking the cases, the Supreme Court is “putting a thumb on the scale in favor of” the president.

“Claiming one emergency after another, the government has recently sought stays in an unprecedented number of cases, demanding immediate attention and consuming limited court resources in each,” Sotomayor wrote. “And with each successive application, of course, its cries of urgency ring increasingly hollow.”

“It is hard to say what is more troubling,” she added. “That the government would seek this extraordinary relief seemingly as a matter of course, or that the Court would grant it.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/sotomayor-supreme-court-trump-dissent-957020/

[Arkansas Granny]

1. She certainly didn't pull any punches.

[Ohiogal]

2. GOP will just accuse her

of being a hysterical liberal.

[leftyladyfrommo]

5. Hysterical woman liberal. nt

[Newest Reality]

3. That's a relief...

I never thought that the end of democracy, (barring a military coup) could happen so rapidly and openly like this, bringing us closer to the edge of a political cliff.

I guess I was thinking it might be more covert and far less obvious. I am always relieved somewhat when people start to speak out about Captain Atrocity and hope there are many, loud voices chanting up to the end.

Trump is more like a computer virus than people might think. He is "copying" himself by way of appointments, judges and the usual band of sycophantic suspects. If our system and the checks and balances were an anti-virus and firewall, we desperately need an update to prevent further infection once we eradicate the current contamination that is ready to crash our OS.

[Baked Potato]

4. An update, or as many are suggesting,

loading up an entire new operating system. The system we have is too hackable.