TNR’s Greg Sargent takes a critical look at the day’s political news and the stories leading NewRepublic.com, and speaks to leading journalists and newsmakers.

Sargent: OK. We now have set the table to get to where I want to get to, which is Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent. This is in the case involving all the Venezuelans removed to the Salvadoran gulag.

WASHINGTON − Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor on Friday stressed the importance of an independent judiciary and the rule of law, warning in comments at a law school about “arbitrary power.” ...

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor appeared to criticize recent attacks on the courts by President Donald Trump and his allies Friday evening in remarks at Georgetown University, calling for ...

Follow me on X: @JimmyHooverDC. Justice Sonia Sotomayor made politically charged comments Friday about what she sees as recent threats to the rule of law from government officials, although she ...

Languages: English. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor wants the nation's highest court to weigh in on an issue that has been dividing lower courts. The Supreme Court on Monday issued ...

(CNN) — Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the most senior liberal on the Supreme Court, advocated for a “fearlessly independent” judiciary during remarks Friday, telling an audience in Washington ...

Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Friday stressed the importance of an independent judiciary and fealty to the rule of law amid harsh rhetoric from the Trump administration against ...

Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Friday stressed the importance of an independent judiciary and fealty to the rule of law amid harsh rhetoric from the Trump administration against ...

It’s not. But that doesn’t mean it can’t happen. Indeed, Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned just a day earlier of the possibility. Dissenting from the Supreme Court’s decision to grant ...

And while the rain finally stopped Sunday, some of those rivers aren’t expected to crest or drop below major flooding levels until later this week. The National Weather Service defines major ...