Sotomayor's Dissent in Presidential Immunity
Case Certainly Has People Talking
Townhall,
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Rebecca Downs
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
7/2/2024 1:20:20 AM
On Monday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision of Trump v. United States that the office of the United States presidency has immunity from criminal prosecution. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote the dissent, which Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson also signed onto. It's a dissent that has plenty of people talking over social media, with a common theme of the reaction being "bats**t" to describe her ranting and raving. "With fear for our democracy, I dissent," she wrote in what sounds like a line the Biden reelection will almost certainly take advantage of. She also began her dissent in part by writing
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 7/2/2024 1:46:03 AM (No. 1747852)
DEI in SCOTUS - Don't Expect Intelligence. No surprises with Sotomayor, Kagan and Brown.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 7/2/2024 1:54:28 AM (No. 1747853)
Talking, yes, but it was an incredibly stupid or intentionally disingenuous dissent.
But, I don't give the Wide Latina much credit for intellect, her being a purely affirmative action hire and based on her track record, a purely partisan hack, not any sort of a brilliant legal mind. So....probably not disingenuous sarcasm in her dissent, just genuine dimness.
She probably can't grasp that the immunity which she so foolishly decries, is to protect Presidents from exactly the sort of evil men like Weissmann and Bragg who are assailing this former President.
The founding fathers INTENDED to keep these evil little Lilliputian political backstabbers from having any say against a President for official actions, and therefore moved ALL questions of "high crimes and misdemeanors" into the Congress where elected and accountable House members would provide the indictments (impeachment) and, originally, Senators representing the states, appointed by the state legislatures, to do the actual trial of the President.
Of course, the wrong headed 17th Amendment twisted things a bit by making Senators elected and accountable to the people, like the House, rather than to the state legislatures.
However, the point is the same. The founders wanted to protect the President with very wide ranging immunity from evil men who would use the laws as a political weapon, and put the President in the hands of the Congress in any 'legal action'.
But the Dim Latina doesn't seem to be able to grasp this. And the evil little political hacks who have been assailing this former President are appalled to have their lawfare blocked, and happy to quote their affirmative action hack from the SCOTUS about it.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 7/2/2024 2:06:39 AM (No. 1747864)
People need to realize that Ketanji Brown Jackson is the dumbest of the Supreme Court justices. Sonia Sotomayor is a close second. Dumb and Dumber. Both of them didn't get to the Supreme Court because of their intellect.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Trigger2 7/2/2024 3:18:15 AM (No. 1747879)
Who appointed Saddle Bags. Obviously, someone as nutty as she is.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Ditto1958 7/2/2024 3:37:05 AM (No. 1747886)
It’s a republic!!! So, either a Supreme Court justice doesn’t know that, or she’s being blatantly politicos from the bench.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 7/2/2024 3:51:55 AM (No. 1747891)
Just to watch leftists heads explode, when President Trump is back in the Oval Office he should suggest that the Supreme Court should be thirteen justices not nine and he's going to do all possible to make that so.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
mifla 7/2/2024 3:55:28 AM (No. 1747893)
Great. A Supreme Court justice parroting DNC talking points.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Nimby 7/2/2024 4:49:43 AM (No. 1747909)
#4 @Trigger2 - she is Obama appointee
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 7/2/2024 5:17:10 AM (No. 1747910)
I am happy that Sotomayor feels free to express her dim bulb opinions. The fact that she cannot grasp the foundational ideas in the Constitution, that she took an oath to preserve, proves her UNFIT for her office. Clip of the oath: ... "impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as ___ UNDER THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS of the United States. ...". I would note "the laws" include the body of SCOTUS decisions as mentioned so forcefully by Roberts who reminds the vacant minded judge that previous SCOTUS rulings have found her arguments "unpersuasive". He accuses her of "fear mongering", the exact tactic used continuously by dems and media. That is a strong slap down for the court.
Further, the REASON for this decision is of the exact nature that Sotomayor frets over. It is the abuse of power of the current administration and of the state courts that make it necessary for such a review and clarifying decision. What Sotomayor and her ilk are angry over is that their abuse of power has been shut down. Further, it is proof that the boogeyman tales that Sotomayor spins could not come into reality without accountability. Telling Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival is NOT an official duty under the law. A president doing something of this nature would be held to the highest accountability. Plus, Seal Team 6, honorable and intelligent soldiers and not presidential puppets, would almost certainly refuse such an blatantly illegal order. Something else (the list seems endless) that Sotomayor is also ignorant of.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
5 handicap 7/2/2024 5:38:38 AM (No. 1747912)
"Wise Latina" my Ass! Does anyone recall the imbecile who first uttered that phrase re Sotomayor?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
skacmar 7/2/2024 6:25:33 AM (No. 1747920)
Sotomayor missed the entire point of the majority opinion. Core constitutional principles/duties are protected actions of the Presidents job. Sotomayor (and Jacksons) ridiculous "what if" dissents ignore actual laws which the majority said still cover the President. Liberal hysteria over something over an immunity that the President has generally been understood to have for over 200 years is ridiculous. Sotomayor 's Liberal bias and inability to be neutral shines through in her opinion. If this had been a case against Obama, you can be assured she would have been in the majority.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/2/2024 6:25:50 AM (No. 1747921)
#10, it was the “wise Latina” herself.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
vrb8m 7/2/2024 6:35:19 AM (No. 1747930)
FTA: "Army veteran Sam Rogers had a particularly strong reaction, even arguing that Sotomayor should be impeached for such claims, and do so once Trump wins so that he could nominate her replacement."
Works for me.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Subsuburban 7/2/2024 6:35:56 AM (No. 1747931)
It should be kept in mind that Sotomayor, a soi disant "wise latina," is probably at the upper end of the IQ spectrum for her ethnic group, which is to say, she is somewhere in the "mildly retarded" group. Brown Jackson, of course, being a member of the group arising in sob-Saharan Africa, can be categorized as being somewhere in the "functioning moron" IQ distribution. Look it up.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Hazymac 7/2/2024 6:44:26 AM (No. 1747937)
Re #10: She called herself a "wise Latina woman," not realizing the tautology. Her opinion was called "bats**t" crazy, and I have to agree. This Latina ain't right in the head.
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Those who use the term "threat to our democracy" have been trying for decades to take us into socialism or communism.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
felixcat 7/2/2024 7:18:26 AM (No. 1747958)
I guess she wasn't too upset when Biden ignored the Supreme Court's decision that the president cannot write off college student loans. So much for respect for democracy...pfft
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
broken01 7/2/2024 7:25:59 AM (No. 1747960)
Yes it does have people talking. They're saying how ridiculous the intellectual lightweight Sotomayor continues be on the high court.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Italiano 7/2/2024 7:26:36 AM (No. 1747961)
An unqualified, Affirmative Action-enabled mediocrity.
But at least she has more or less admitted it.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/2/2024 7:34:16 AM (No. 1747966)
I have learned that it is a waste of time, energy and good solid anger to react to the stupid utterings of the Left. Most of them hate themselves and can't think about what gratifies their little minds beyond the moment. Simply being the Wide Latina as the result of DEI philosophy is punishment enough for her. The blimp in black doesn't realize that the SC just saved the hides of both Pedo Joe and the Kenyan Lightbringer from answering for their many crimes. The decision requires the American people to be very careful when electing a president, something at which they failed twice since 2008.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 7/2/2024 7:49:25 AM (No. 1747975)
It should have been a 9 - 0 decision. I thought SCOTUS justices were supposed to apply the law and interpret the Constitution absent their political leanings as per their sworn oath. Obviously, the wise latina still has a bad case of TDS as do the other "me, too" justices, Kagan and Ketanji.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
downnout 7/2/2024 8:07:03 AM (No. 1747981)
I’m no fan of Roberts but his writing on Sotomayor’s dissent is a frozen flounder across the face!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Firebase 7/2/2024 8:08:49 AM (No. 1747982)
Everything she is concerned about are only actions a democrat president would take. She should be elated: Now Joe Biden is off the hook for everything he has done in office that is illegal. And Obama is off the hook for having that US citizen assassinated overseas.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
cartcart 7/2/2024 8:34:22 AM (No. 1747991)
People are talking about her foolishness. That is about it.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Ruhn 7/2/2024 9:09:59 AM (No. 1748015)
Lawrence Tribe, of all people, advised Barry against nominating Sotomayor for the very reasons discussed now. And yet here we are, dissecting hysterical rants masquerading as legal opinion in a SCOTUS decision from an affirmative action nominee who should be nowhere near a bench, let alone sitting as a Justice on the USSC.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
dwa 7/2/2024 9:51:54 AM (No. 1748049)
I agree with #9s assessment of Seal Team 6. However, the FBI and CIA have no such honor and integrity and would happily carry out such an order.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Kafka2 7/2/2024 10:30:15 AM (No. 1748081)
Sotomayor’s dissent has all the characteristics of partisan Democrat disinformation.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Zigrid 7/2/2024 10:57:22 AM (No. 1748103)
In the real world...WE call this a sore loser....no respectful dissent...only bitterness...I think WE found the justice who leaked the roe v wade decision to the press ahead of time....don't bother justice Roberts hiding "who" leaked to the public...NOW WE know....
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Trapper 7/2/2024 11:00:09 AM (No. 1748107)
When the only factors recommending a judge for nomination to the Supreme Court are the color of their skin, the ethnicity of their name, their gender, or their religiouis heritiage, this is the kind of really bad reaoning, if you can even call it that, you will get from them.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/2/2024 11:44:10 AM (No. 1748139)
Typically LEFTIST BS!
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
DVC 7/2/2024 12:11:46 PM (No. 1748171)
I have spent a several days training with a former member of SEAL DEVGRU, commonly but incorrectly called SEAL Team 6, and three other retired SEALs. This included meals and ample time to chat, listen and learn of their character, ideas and attitudes. I am pretty darned certain that any order which was like the political assassination idiocy that Sotomayor hypothesized would not be followed by any SEAL team. These are highly honorable men.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
moebellini3 7/2/2024 12:39:44 PM (No. 1748193)
Fact is, democrats make decisions based on emotion, not logic. Democrats do not have the ability to rule by law, everything they do is based on emotion. They don't have the ability to process one logical thought. This ruling by the supreme court has completely destroyed their minds. Their spewing of hatred is just another hysterical, emotional, reaction that they find impossible to control. On top of all this, is their suffering from TDS, and incurable disease. We are dealing with very sick people here, including the media.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
cor-vet 7/2/2024 3:27:22 PM (No. 1748290)
I'd like to know who actually wrote this dissent? Sotomayor appears to be too stupid, so are her law clerks just as stupid as she is? Makes you wonder where they attend law school, but I'm betting Harvard!
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