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Sonia Sotomayor

Sonia Maria Sotomayor is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving since August 2009. Sotomayor is the Court's 111th justice, its first Hispanic justice, and its third female justice.

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I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.

– Sonia Sotomayor

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There’s 50 million students who will benefit from this who today will struggle, many of them don’t have assets sufficient to bail them out after the pandemic.

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I think the bottom-line answer to be, everybody suffered in the pandemic. But different people got different benefits because they qualified under different programs, correct?

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And what you’re saying is now we’re going to give judges the right to decide how much aid to give them instead of the person with the expertise and the experience, the secretary of education who’s been dealing with educational issues and the problems surrounding student loans.

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It may take us time.

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Sometimes, I was shell shocked, other times I was just deeply, deeply sad, and many times, I did have a sense of despair about the direction my court was going.

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Every decision we make is written, fully explained, fully defended, fully laid out. But you can’t do that and maintain a show.

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After assuming away an Establishment Clause violation, Supreme Court revolutionized Free Exercise doctrine by equating a State's decision not to fund a religious organization with presumptively unconstitutional discrimination on the basis of religious status.

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Found on CNN 2 years ago

There are days I get discouraged, then I say,' OK, let's fight.'.

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That's why I can be friends with Justice Clarence Thomas and still continue our daily battle over our differences of opinions in cases, you really can't begin to understand an adversary unless you step away from looking at their views as motivated in bad faith.

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He has a very different vision than I do about how to help people... and about their responsibilities to help themselves, i have often said to people that Justice Clarence Thomas believes that every person can pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I believe that some people can't get to their bootstraps without help -- they need someone to help them lift their foot up so that they can reach.

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I thought that none of them constitutionally can use excessive force.

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This is really a step further than anything we have said before, all of our other cases, whether its regulation of tobacco, or regulation of evictions under major questions doctrine, have not addressed the' how.' Now... you want President Joe Biden EPA to look at the' how.'.

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Found on CNN 2 years ago

The advantage of diversity, whether it’s gender or race or ethnicity or even professional work, whatever the diversity represents, it gives people who don’t otherwise think there’s opportunity, it aspires them to believe there might be.

– Sonia Sotomayor