With palpable anger, the Obama appointee read for 20 minutes from her sharp dissent, calling the decision one that “reshapes the structure of government.
Sotomayor blasts court’s ruling allowing Trump to fire agency heads
With palpable anger, the Obama appointee read for 20 minutes from her sharp dissent, calling the decision one that “reshapes the structure of government.â€
— Julianne McShane (@juliannemcshane.bsky.social) 2026-06-29T15:44:38.222Z
https://www.ms.now/news/sonia-sotomayor-fiery-dissent-slaughter-case
Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered a fiery dissent Monday in the Supreme Court’s decision backing President Donald Trump’s power to fire members of independent federal agencies, describing the Republican-appointed majority’s ruling as one that cuts away at the Constitution.
Inside the chambers, Sotomayor spent nearly 20 minutes reading from the bench her dissenting opinion in Trump v. Slaughter — an uncommon practice for a dissenting justice.
In a defiant tone, and with palpable anger, she described the decision held as one that “reshapes the structure of government in a fundamental way,” by giving the president “a power unknown even to the English Crown against which the Founders revolted, elevating him above his once-coequal branches.”
The decision allowing Trump to fire Rebecca Slaughter, a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, without cause upends a 1935 precedent that had protected the independence of agencies.
In doing so, Sotomayor said, the court is transforming the president’s “duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed into a license to act in defiance of those very laws.”
Alito has been getting pissed at Justice Sotomayor's dissents. It will be interesting to see how Alito reacts
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