"The President must take care that the laws are faithfully executed, not set out to dismantle them," Sotomayor wrote.

The U.S. Supreme Court gave the Trump administration free rein to gut the Department of Education on Monday — voting 6-3 to lift a federal judge's order blocking the dismantling — in what Justice Sonia Sotomayor blasted in a scathing dissent as an "abuse of our equitable authority" that she "cannot condone.

In a blistering dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor slammed the Supreme Court for allowing Trump to destroy the Department of Education.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent in a Supreme Court order handed down on Tuesday stood out enough that it prompted one of her liberal colleagues to voice disagreement with her.

The Supreme Court’s concessions to President Trump have reignited complaints about the secrecy of shadow docket rulings.

Sonia Sotomayor finished her first Supreme Court term in 2010. The Supreme Court clerks’ annual comedy revue, presented every June at the justices’ highly private end-of-term party, ...

Sonia Sotomayor, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, during the formal group photograph at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., April 23, 2021.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor condemned the federal sentencing commission’s failure to resolve a circuit split and scolded Tennessee courts for their “untenable” approach to manslaughter jury instructions.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday took a break from the middle of a contentious Supreme Court term to console a law student disillusioned with the American justice system. “Wrong things can ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor unleashed fury on her conservative colleagues for their decision overruling a lower court and giving the Trump administration the go-ahead to significantly slash the workforce of the Department of Education.