The Latest Breaking News from Sotomayor

The proposals include term limits for Supreme Court justices, a binding ethics code, and a constitutional amendment limiting the president's' immunity from prosecution. All 3 are potentially good ideas. But devil is in details.

Joan Biskupic reports that the justices were initially inclined to back Idaho in the EMTALA case, until they realized the case was messier than they had thought.

There are tensions between Jarkesy, CFPB, and Vidal.

The Chief Justice wavers on many issues, but never in returning power to the federal judiciary.

Another Burger Court precedent is about to be “abandoned” or “overruled” like Roe, Lemon, Chevron, Abood, and Bakke.

Even if an erroneous precedent cannot be overruled, isolate the damage, and decline to extend it to new circumstances.

Justice Sotomayor's rhetoric in Trump v. United States mirrors the claims from Trump impeachment 1.0

Defenders of the Mueller investigation routinely argued that the threat of civil enforcement was worse than a federal prosecution.

Justice Thomas agrees with the "lion's share" of Justice Gorsuch's concurrence.

A longish and interesting opinion by Justice Sotomayor, regarding the Court's decision not to review the matter for now (McCrory v. Alabama). According to Justice Sotomayor: Petitioner Charles M. McCrory was convicted of murder in 1985 based on forensic bitemark testimony that has now been roundly condemned by the scientific…

From Justice Sotomayor's statement today respecting the denial of review in Price v. Montgomery County: Nickie Miller was charged with murder based on the false confession of a witness. The witness later recanted her coerced confession, including in jailhouse letters she sent to her husband. Upon learning about the letters,…