Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor and Trump
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"[E]ither way the threat to our Constitution’s separation of powers is grave," she wrote in a blistering dissent.
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.
Liberals on the nation’s highest court make it clear they did not support the decision to allow mass federal firings.
The Supreme Court on Monday said President Donald Trump may proceed with his plan to carry out mass layoffs at the Department of Education in the latest win for the White House at the conservative high court.
She has become the great dissenter, sometimes siding with Justices Sonia Sotomayor or Elena Kagan or sometimes standing alone.
The majority did not explain its decision in the brief, unsigned order. The court's three liberal justices opposed the order. Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the majority handed Trump the power to repeal laws passed by Congress “by firing all those necessary to carry them out.”
It doesn't matter if the individuals in question have ties to the war-torn African nation, a departure from normal procedure.
The justices, after their term ends, greenlight deportations to war-ravaged South Sudan from a shipping container.