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Sonia Sotomayor
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Background
Sonia Sotomayor has served as an Associate Justice since August 2009, and is the first Hispanic and first Latina member of the Supreme Court. She previously served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and earlier as an assistant district attorney in New York County. Raised in the Bronx, she graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University and earned her law degree from Yale Law School.
Notable opinions (OT2023-OT2025)
| Trump v. United States Called the immunity ruling utterly indefensible: In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law. source |
| NRA v. Vullo Held, unanimously, that the NRA plausibly alleged that New York's financial regulator coerced banks and insurers into cutting ties with it in violation of the First Amendment; the Court reversed the dismissal and returned the case for further proceedings, without deciding the facts. source |
| SEC v. Jarkesy Objected to requiring Seventh Amendment jury trials for SEC fraud defendants instead of in-house ALJ proceedings. source |
| Trump v. Slaughter Would have preserved Humphrey's Executor and the FTC's independence from at-will presidential removal. source |
Selected notable opinions from the three most recent completed Supreme Court terms. Roles, dates, and vote splits are taken from the linked sources; summaries describe what each opinion held, not the underlying facts.