She actually stands in opposition to the conservative justices. She's written some pretty scathing dissentions, and tends to be on the side of labor and against corporate rule.
For example, she upheld the 4th Amendment in a dissent when the court ruled that police can use evidence collected when they pull someone over for what they believe to be a violation, but which isn't actually against the law. She's also been vocally critical of the structure of the court which allows the current majority to simply grant Trump whatever legal justification he seeks. She also correctly identified that the goal of the Janus lawsuit was to weaken unions so they could be abolished, and I think made comments beyond the official dissent.
Again, she is still a SCOTUS justice, so her very role in society is problematic, as a bureaucrat in a bourgeois system, but she seems to push back on that system more than any other justice. I just need to keep reminding myself that she is still, by her very willingness to be a SCOTUS justice, in a bad role in society, and that keeps me from lionizing her the way libs did with RBG.
Sotomayor is the only 'good' justice, and she's still a bourgeois bureaucrat in a broken system built to oppress the working masses.
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She actually stands in opposition to the conservative justices. She's written some pretty scathing dissentions, and tends to be on the side of labor and against corporate rule.
For example, she upheld the 4th Amendment in a dissent when the court ruled that police can use evidence collected when they pull someone over for what they believe to be a violation, but which isn't actually against the law. She's also been vocally critical of the structure of the court which allows the current majority to simply grant Trump whatever legal justification he seeks. She also correctly identified that the goal of the Janus lawsuit was to weaken unions so they could be abolished, and I think made comments beyond the official dissent.
Again, she is still a SCOTUS justice, so her very role in society is problematic, as a bureaucrat in a bourgeois system, but she seems to push back on that system more than any other justice. I just need to keep reminding myself that she is still, by her very willingness to be a SCOTUS justice, in a bad role in society, and that keeps me from lionizing her the way libs did with RBG.
she's the only decent pick obama made, I'm actually surprised at it. Meanwhile Kagan is voting with conservatives left and right, just as you'd expect