backbone to verbally slap down the 'wise' latino.
Posted on 06/18/2025 4:56:46 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Justice Sotomayor also read her dissent from the bench, a move typically reserved to emphasize a justice’s extreme displeasure with a decision.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, one of the court’s three liberals, wrote a scathing dissent criticizing her conservative colleagues’ decision to uphold a state ban on some medical treatments for transgender youths.
The justice said that the court had retreated from “meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters most,” adding that “the court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims.”
Justice Sotomayor also took the rare step of reading her dissent from the bench during the opinion announcement on Wednesday, a move typically reserved to emphasize a justice’s extreme displeasure with a decision.
She took issue with the majority’s view that questions about such medical treatments should be resolved by “the people, their elected representatives and the democratic process.” In her 31-page dissent, she argued that “judicial scrutiny has long played an essential role” in guarding against efforts by lawmakers to “impose upon individuals the state’s views about how people of a particular sex (or race) should live or look or act.”
Justice Sotomayor pointed to landmark Supreme Court cases that pushed back against discriminatory laws and policies. She cited United States v. Virginia, the 1996 case in which the court struck down Virginia Military Institute’s male-only admissions policy, along with Loving v. Virginia, the 1967 case that declared state laws prohibiting interracial marriage unconstitutional.
“Those laws, too, posed politically fraught and contested questions about race, sex and biology,” the justice wrote. In the interracial marriage case, she wrote as an example, Virginia had argued that if the court intervened in the matter, it would find itself in a “bog of conflicting scientific opinion upon the effects of interracial marriage, and the desirability of preventing such alliances, from the...”
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THEY’RE NOT “TRANSGENDER!”
Ya freakin’ ghoul.
Shut this bishop.
The Wide Latina needs gone from the Supreme Fart.
These aren’t treatments. They are Mengele inspired medical experiments.
Sotomayor, you are a traitor and should be tried as such.
I thought the liberals were trying to get rid of Miss Compelling Life Story.
Seat 3 of the Supreme Fart has spoken.
That’s one wide seat.
In her 31-page dissent, she argued that “judicial scrutiny has long played an essential role” in guarding against efforts by lawmakers to “impose upon individuals the state’s views about how people of a particular sex (or race) should live or look or act.”
And just what does that have to do with the question at hand? This did not involve whether the state could force a person (even a minor) to live or look or act in line with the gender stereotype for his or her sex. It is about life altering medical procedures including surgery on children. Such treatment is of unproven benefit, and carries multiple risks both current and future.
Worse the request for such is often driven by mentally unstable mother whose desire for a child of the opposite sex gets twisted into some weird and evil conviction her child is in the wrong body. If anyone is imposing a gender role on a child it is not the state. It is these sick moms.
Justice Sotomayor is a POS who should never have been confirmed. The GOP is far too compromised and the Democrats are far too anti-American.
The left is sexually mentally ill from the top on down.
Democracy is a political whim?
So are the Democrats for or against democracy? It’s hard to tell.
This is the definition of legislating from the bench.
She rules by feelings and her belief in right and wrong, ignoring the law altogether.
I’ll bet a year’s salary that she’s never read the Constitution.
Sotomayor needs to give her head a shake... If a child isn’t legally allowed to have sex until they’re 16... How the hell can they decide which sex they are before that???
Children can’t make decisions about their sexual orientation until they are adults, and neither can their parents. When they are old enough then they can decide... Until then... Just shut the heck up.
She has contempt for the will of the voters, and a warped sense of what’s right and what is wrong.
Genital mutilation of children disguised as “transgender rights” is just child abuse of the worst kind. Enough of the propaganda from the Leftists.
This is the consequence of the communists and the neocon globalists and their crony capitalists ganging together to subvert sovereign decisions. In the US we have two sovereigns, the states and the federal government where decisions are made by the legislature and the executive each in his sphere. They along with the judiciary are trying to execute sovereignty through themselves and through international bodies and NGOs. These are the people who attempt to use their sovereignty to make war on Americans cooking a family meal on a gas stove.
Now we have a a populace and elected executives who are using the sovereign power of the states and the United States on behalf of the American people and not a bunch of kooks, and lunatics.
In the view of liberals, individuals don’t matter. Only groups. Hence, anything that benefits the group is righteous and if individual members of that or another group are harmed, oh well, eggs, omelets you know. But the issue isn’t whether rights are being taken but whether rights are being preserved. Here the decision preserves the right of every child to make informed consent for the treatment once they are legally capable of giving such consent. Parents have broad rights to partake in rearing their children but this treatment isn’t curative, it’s just the opposite, condemning a child to a life of pain, rejection and medical dependency.
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