Sonia Sotomayor (1954) U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Pappas v. Giuliani, 290 F.3d 143 (2002) (dissenting).
“The Court's opinion serves up a freedom-destroying cocktail consisting of two parts patent falsity.”
Navarette v. California, 134 S. Ct. 1683, 1697, 188 L. Ed. 2d 680 (2014).
2010s
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