Justice Sonia Sotomayor slams high court's presidential immunity ruling
Last year, President Donald Trump scored several massive legal wins, including a bombshell immunity decision from the U.S. Supreme Court that would eventually unravel the two federal cases against him.
According to The Hill, for the first time since the immunity decision, Justice Sonia Sotomayor felt the need to comment on said immunity decision, of which she was definitely not a fan, either at the time of its issuance or still to this day.
Not only did she double down on her opposition to the immunity ruling, which came from the conservative majority high court, but she also expressed concerns about public confidence in the Supreme Court.
Sotomayor said she believes the high court has gone too far away from public sentiment, which she claims can undermine confidence in its rulings.
Of course, as a far-left justice, she's speaking about liberal Americans who are angry with the decisions made by conservatives on the court, and not the millions of conservatives who definitely do not believe that the high court is straying too far from public sentiment in its rulings. Sotomayor just seems mad, if not triggered.
"If we as a court go so much further ahead of people, our legitimacy is going to be questioned," she said when asked about her thoughts on dwindling public confidence in the court.
"I think the immunity case is one of those situations,” she continued.
“I don’t think that Americans have accepted that anyone should be above the law in America. Our equality as people was the foundation of our society and of our Constitution.”
What's hilarious is that she couldn't possibly be more accurate, as part of the reason Trump destroyed his opponent in the presidential race is that most Americans saw how unfairly targeted he was, for years, by his top political opponent.
"I think my court would probably gather more public support if it went a little more slowly in undoing precedent," she added.
Sotomayor and the other two liberal justices on the panel rote a 30-page dissent after the high court ruled in favor of giving presidents some level of immunity.
The Hill noted:
Sotomayor issued the stinging 30-page dissent, joined by fellow liberal Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, in which she wrote, “Today’s decision to grant former Presidents criminal immunity reshapes the institution of the Presidency.”
"It makes a mockery of the principle, foundational to our Constitution and system of Government, that no man is above the law," Sotomayor wrote at the time.
It's clear that Democrats from all corners are absolutely ridden with severe cases of Trump Derangement Syndrome, and they just can't seem to find a way to kick it.