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Sotomayor is like some kind of sick joke, derailing SCOTUS

seems like every argument gets derailed in the first couple ...
Cyan stage
  01/15/13
how do her clerks fail to prep her so badly
Misunderstood Personal Credit Line Multi-billionaire
  01/15/13
...
Cyan stage
  01/15/13
This
Electric onyx chad
  01/16/13
she picks her clerks based on "diversity"
Chartreuse soggy orchestra pit
  12/09/15
link to examples?
tripping yarmulke preventive strike
  01/15/13
...
Cyan stage
  01/15/13
I remember that. Scalia did a nice job of getting her to STF...
tripping yarmulke preventive strike
  01/15/13
...
Cyan stage
  01/15/13
if she's dumb, how did she end up salutatorian at princeton?
tripping yarmulke preventive strike
  01/15/13
edit: apparently yale doesnt have honors
Clear Very Tactful Gay Wizard
  01/15/13
her A+ in "latino race theory"
Learning disabled party of the first part half-breed
  01/15/13
*Calls Latina an AA recipient* *Is reminded that she grad...
Fuchsia bawdyhouse
  01/16/13
see links below. she was AA to get in and AA to get the priz...
Metal incel kitty
  03/26/13
I know you gave this response to make Sotomayor appear more ...
scarlet hairy legs
  03/18/13
LOL @ xo racists.
Mildly autistic lilac indian lodge
  03/18/13
she was most definitely NOT the salutatorian there. there we...
Metal incel kitty
  03/26/13
she got straight A's her last two years of college. That's i...
tripping yarmulke preventive strike
  03/26/13
"almost" all As. by that time she was in the upper...
Metal incel kitty
  03/26/13
citation for "identity politics" major? Wiki says ...
tripping yarmulke preventive strike
  03/26/13
it was history, and she took identity politics courses in he...
Metal incel kitty
  03/26/13
She looks pretty good cot damn.
arrogant slap-happy pisswyrm
  03/26/13
does she look cheerful to you?
Metal incel kitty
  03/26/13
lolno, but you can literally see her nips.
arrogant slap-happy pisswyrm
  03/26/13
Update: http://i.imgur.com/V3ST1.jpg
Mind-boggling Useless Roommate
  06/05/18
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Mind-boggling Useless Roommate
  06/05/18
tbf, Munoz Marin is interesting as fuck. A real deal case s...
cowardly office patrolman
  04/07/16
She admits her scores weren't comparable to her classmates. ...
Shaky idiot heaven
  03/26/13
*gets mostly A's in two years of latino studies* *is one of...
glittery giraffe house
  03/26/13
She majored in history, and princeton didn't even have latin...
tripping yarmulke preventive strike
  03/26/13
*gets mostly A's in two years of history (a feat clearly bey...
glittery giraffe house
  03/26/13
not the salutatorian. http://www.princeton.edu/pr/picture...
Metal incel kitty
  03/26/13
compare this press release's description of sotomayor and th...
Metal incel kitty
  03/26/13
http://www.wellscap.com/people/david_germany.html This is...
arrogant slap-happy pisswyrm
  03/27/13
writing class profs give affirmative action to dark skinned ...
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  06/05/18
MR. JOHNSON: Even if you say it does, it still doesn't -- it...
obsidian public bath
  01/15/13
180
Cyan stage
  01/15/13
A+
scarlet hairy legs
  03/18/13
...
Frum codepig alpha
  03/18/13
Please let Wise Latina transcript quotations become part of ...
beady-eyed narrow-minded church national security agency
  03/26/13
180
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  03/26/13
180
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  03/26/13
God bless you mr johnson.
talking red really tough guy
  05/07/13
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vivacious maniacal hominid state
  04/17/17
MR. JOHNSON: Yes. In California you -just entry with intent ...
obsidian public bath
  01/15/13
What the IAA says is that the government can sue when the vi...
obsidian public bath
  01/15/13
MR. MICHEL: It does. I will tell you, the reason why it does...
obsidian public bath
  01/16/13
jfc
Cyan stage
  01/16/13
on what a wise MPEP scholar
Glassy Corner
  01/16/13
LOL
Angry bat shit crazy field mexican
  03/26/13
ty to whoever bumped this thread
costumed cuck
  06/14/15
ouch
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  12/09/15
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  03/02/16
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  04/17/17
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  12/20/17
gosh
Magical aggressive doctorate
  10/04/23
...
Magical aggressive doctorate
  06/28/25
JUSTICE KAGAN: A couple where both people are over the age o...
obsidian public bath
  03/26/13
...
Angry bat shit crazy field mexican
  03/26/13
holy shit
Thirsty Digit Ratio Pocket Flask
  03/26/13
JFC
pontificating menage
  04/23/13
yes!
talking red really tough guy
  05/07/13
Ho Lee Fuk
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  11/04/13
...
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  02/04/14
180
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  03/02/16
Disgusting manterrupting
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  11/13/16
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  01/31/17
MR. WAXMAN: Well, Justice Ginsburg, two things. First of all...
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  03/26/13
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  04/17/17
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: How do we draw the line, that line that y...
obsidian public bath
  03/26/13
180 the hypothetical that Justice Kagan posited is not s...
talking red really tough guy
  05/07/13
BUT BUT BUT where do we draw the line???
scarlet hairy legs
  05/07/13
tbf, pretty sure alito asks that question the most
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  10/15/13
MR. CLEMENT: Well, a couple of things, Justice Sotomayor. I ...
obsidian public bath
  04/23/13
underrated
vivacious maniacal hominid state
  04/17/17
...
Vibrant saffron death wish
  04/17/17
MS. HARRINGTON: That he was trying to get commitment; that w...
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  04/23/13
JUSTICE ALITO: Those were all created by the dairy industry...
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  10/08/13
LOL
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  02/04/14
Lmao
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  04/17/17
...
Magical aggressive doctorate
  10/04/23
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: I'm a little confused, okay? I'm confused...
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  10/08/13
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  01/31/17
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vivacious maniacal hominid state
  04/17/17
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: But you told me -- you started by saying ...
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  11/04/13
OMG pwn pwn pwn
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  06/14/15
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  04/17/17
MR. CLEMENT: The second thing is I think you have to underst...
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  12/03/13
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  03/21/17
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  05/19/23
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irate mad-dog skullcap institution
  05/24/23
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: That's sort of hard to understand because...
Light demanding market
  03/02/15
"So what about the lemon pledge? I just want to make su...
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  03/02/16
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Vibrant saffron death wish
  03/21/17
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Magical aggressive doctorate
  10/04/23
yeah but she does have dat LIFE EXPERIENCE
Sexy flirting box office
  01/15/13
obama's america
puce jewess volcanic crater
  01/15/13
"But what is the rule you want us to articulate?"
Anal floppy knife
  01/15/13
Anyone that asks or cares about SCOTUS questions is a fuckin...
Coral galvanic gaping
  01/15/13
?
Cyan stage
  01/15/13
they're useless
Coral galvanic gaping
  01/15/13
naw
Misunderstood Personal Credit Line Multi-billionaire
  01/15/13
There seem to be some cases where someone (usually Breyer or...
Clear Very Tactful Gay Wizard
  01/15/13
it's not that oral arg is relevant; it's that oral arg is ev...
Glassy Corner
  01/16/13
and the wise italian politico or his nigga slave are any sma...
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  03/18/13
scalia is certainly smarter.
Aqua Arousing Feces Address
  03/26/13
His Obamacare performance tops anything in this thread. It ...
Stubborn Chapel Genital Piercing
  05/07/13
thomas doesn't try to peacock for counsel
fiercely-loyal boistinker abode
  03/26/13
damn right son
fiercely-loyal boistinker abode
  01/31/17
bc she's full of herself.
appetizing rehab partner
  01/15/13
just wait til there are three "wise latinas" on th...
Learning disabled party of the first part half-breed
  01/15/13
jesus christ, that would be like a drunk mariachi band in ti...
cobalt haunting principal's office
  04/23/13
unwise latinas
comical trailer park
  06/05/18
diabeetus
Violent Crimson Area
  01/15/13
One can hope
multi-colored mustard set
  03/02/16
just out of curiosity what drives you to listen to SCOTUS or...
transparent tattoo
  01/15/13
"Reading the tea leaves"
tripping yarmulke preventive strike
  01/15/13
They are the most fun part. Few people read them, so from ti...
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  01/16/13
Kill yourself.
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  04/23/13
...
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  10/23/13
? there is nothing wrong with his response
Sick motley rigpig
  10/31/16
...
fragrant green scourge upon the earth
  12/20/17
REMINDER: They just make shit up. If you argue against this...
Heady Low-t Locus Legend
  01/15/13
This is another problem altogether.
Cyan stage
  01/15/13
...
Heady Low-t Locus Legend
  01/16/13
cr
maroon misanthropic stage quadroon
  01/15/13
If someone wants to grow medical marijuana in their house fo...
Coral galvanic gaping
  01/15/13
Clarence Thomas was on the right side of Gonzalez v. Raich, ...
Cyan stage
  01/15/13
...
geriatric range mediation
  11/13/16
Dee, you got pwned last time you made this point, but again:...
Bonkers water buffalo
  01/16/13
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Clear Very Tactful Gay Wizard
  01/16/13
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Provocative Mentally Impaired University Sandwich
  02/16/13
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Ivory turdskin temple
  05/21/13
jfc I destroy full time attorneys on this website
Coral galvanic gaping
  03/26/13
cr, actually
Gay persian
  03/26/13
...
Mildly autistic lilac indian lodge
  04/23/13
To be fair, (Part-time attorney)
nubile sooty senate wagecucks
  10/15/13
yeah, and the Dems NEVER doublethink
comical trailer park
  06/05/18
...
Heady Low-t Locus Legend
  06/14/15
REMINDER
Heady Low-t Locus Legend
  06/26/15
Great post. RIP
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Magical aggressive doctorate
  10/04/23
oral arguments are flame
Naked Charismatic Milk
  01/15/13
She's in poor health anyway. She'll be lucky to live anothe...
Razzle Swollen Dog Poop Step-uncle's House
  01/16/13
ay caramba, que suerte!
costumed cuck
  05/23/23
http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcri...
Cyan stage
  02/16/13
...
obsidian public bath
  03/18/13
bendito
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  03/26/13
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obsidian public bath
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Frum codepig alpha
  03/27/13
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obsidian public bath
  03/27/13
ive heard both of them speak, they seem brilliant
deep carnelian legal warrant
  04/23/13
Kagan is very smart. She's up there with Roberts. Soto is ...
pontificating menage
  04/24/13
"which i guess has always been the case (given that the...
arrogant slap-happy pisswyrm
  05/07/13
Libs are stupid. Bc we didn't have transkins of color on the...
Provocative Mentally Impaired University Sandwich
  06/14/15
Reminder: This is why Justice Thomas keeps his mouth shut.
mauve native
  04/24/13
which is pretty sad actually.
copper excitant space
  04/24/13
This was the first thought that came to my mind. But wasn...
Big ruddy nursing home elastic band
  12/09/15
Justice Thomas is brilliant and our greatest living justice.
Cyan stage
  03/21/18
I can't even read all of this drivel. She is as smart as an...
copper excitant space
  04/24/13
Her thesis was about a Puerto Rican no one had heard of, whi...
obsidian public bath
  04/24/13
You have to go into the thesis phase with summa grades to ea...
copper excitant space
  04/24/13
Brother, the article boasting about her academics says she g...
obsidian public bath
  04/24/13
...
scarlet hairy legs
  05/07/13
...
beady-eyed narrow-minded church national security agency
  11/13/16
LOL you are truly a dumb clueless idiot.
Frum codepig alpha
  05/07/13
(member of the latino law students ass'n.)
talking red really tough guy
  05/07/13
i hope this was a low IQ schtick, jfc.
fear-inspiring stag film people who are hurt
  02/04/14
...
obsidian public bath
  05/07/13
LOL http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/supreme_court_brief.jsp sh...
obsidian public bath
  05/21/13
"GAME POST"???? Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who ha...
Glassy Corner
  10/15/13
i tink she meant goal poast
Diverse Big-titted Piazza Idea He Suggested
  10/15/13
LOL
curious duck-like center
  10/15/13
but don't they get the alumni preference?
Peach contagious resort
  10/23/13
Every pro-AA person has been arguing for abolition of alum p...
histrionic abusive hall dingle berry
  11/04/13
Julia pls respond
Mind-boggling Useless Roommate
  06/05/18
...
curious duck-like center
  10/23/13
http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2486228&mc=6...
Glassy Corner
  02/04/14
Now that these elite libs (the lib justices) have to deal wi...
Shimmering kink-friendly marketing idea clown
  02/04/14
...
beady-eyed narrow-minded church national security agency
  04/07/16
ALL scotus justices are LIB...all federal judges are lib...p...
comical trailer park
  06/05/18
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Cyan stage
  03/10/14
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Cyan stage
  04/22/14
<<Sotomayor said one of her attributes is her sense of...
Glassy Corner
  10/26/14
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Light demanding market
  01/25/15
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Light demanding market
  06/14/15
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Heady Low-t Locus Legend
  06/26/15
16  JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR:  So I guess&...
Bonkers water buffalo
  11/02/15
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Drunken pit useless brakes
  11/02/15
At least Thomas is smart enough to realize he's a dumbass an...
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  11/02/15
, the pumo lisped
pearl skinny woman
  12/09/15
...
Cyan stage
  12/09/15
Sotomayor shows the fatigue of one camouflaging how very oft...
Cerebral site ape
  12/09/15
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Mr. Garre, this is the fundamental probl...
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  12/10/15
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  07/11/18
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amber sanctuary
  01/20/16
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Rusted hateful ratface
  02/16/16
In abortion case, J. Sotomayor kept asking questions after R...
Light demanding market
  03/02/16
LOL
Vibrant saffron death wish
  03/02/16
SONIA IS OFF
amber sanctuary
  03/02/16
...
Light demanding market
  03/02/16
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Big ruddy nursing home elastic band
  04/13/16
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Light demanding market
  03/02/16
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Light demanding market
  03/05/16
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: So we announce a rule-- so we announce a ...
Light demanding market
  03/21/16
...
Big ruddy nursing home elastic band
  06/28/18
She has an incredibly unhealthy diet and diabetes. She will ...
Razzle Swollen Dog Poop Step-uncle's House
  03/21/16
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-03-23/sotomayor-h...
Hairraiser Violent Ladyboy Den
  03/23/16
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Vibrant saffron death wish
  04/05/16
"Wow this job is way harder than I thought it would be....
Light demanding market
  04/07/16
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Glassy Corner
  04/13/16
...
vivacious maniacal hominid state
  04/17/17
Gonna be an epic day for her idiocy today!
Light demanding market
  04/18/16
KILLSHOT During an oral argument that frequently veered i...
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  04/18/16
Make America Great Again
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  04/18/16
http://www.vdare.com/articles/obamnesty-scotus-hearing-shows...
geriatric range mediation
  04/22/16
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amber sanctuary
  06/20/16
...
Light demanding market
  06/20/16
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Counselor, assume I agree with you-- MS....
Light demanding market
  10/04/16
Jfc
Primrose Ceo Love Of Her Life
  10/04/16
...
amber sanctuary
  10/04/16
Wtf
irate mad-dog skullcap institution
  07/11/18
...
Magical aggressive doctorate
  10/04/23
She is the embodiment of the future Libs want for you
concupiscible messiness filthpig
  10/04/16
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  12/06/17
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  10/18/16
JUSTICE GINSBURG: When the--when the component--when the art...
Light demanding market
  10/24/16
jfc
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LJL
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  11/13/16
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pearl skinny woman
  11/18/16
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Vibrant saffron death wish
  03/21/17
I'm shocked that the transcript skipped over Sotomayor buryi...
Electric onyx chad
  04/17/17
Parody or actual transcript? JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: So are yo...
Ruby property headpube
  10/31/16
Sotomayor McCheese
Big ruddy nursing home elastic band
  10/31/16
holy fucking shit. that said, i love this thread.
Sick motley rigpig
  10/31/16
https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcr...
Ruby property headpube
  10/31/16
LO SIENTO SEÑOR!
amber sanctuary
  10/31/16
Lol
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  04/27/17
...
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  06/05/18
same oral argument JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: -- but you can't st...
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Sick motley rigpig
  11/12/16
...
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  11/12/16
This is devastating
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  11/14/16
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Let's go back to, if we can, the earlier ...
Light demanding market
  01/18/17
can you provide more context? is sotomayor saying that "...
Abnormal trump supporter base
  01/31/17
think she's saying you can't trademark it because it's libel...
Bearded flatulent cruise ship halford
  01/31/17
yeah but she's saying that the position that you can't cance...
Abnormal trump supporter base
  01/31/17
she's saying that's the lawyers position and it makes no sen...
Bearded flatulent cruise ship halford
  01/31/17
yeah, so she thinks that the first amendment doesn't protect...
Abnormal trump supporter base
  01/31/17
...
concupiscible messiness filthpig
  01/31/17
...
Vibrant saffron death wish
  02/16/17
MR. STOLER: Well, as Justice Kagan and I discussed, on day i...
Light demanding market
  02/28/17
Kagan scrambling to get on the record that she's not associa...
amber sanctuary
  02/28/17
...
Vibrant saffron death wish
  03/21/17
MR. HILLIARD: That's right. JUSTIC...
Big ruddy nursing home elastic band
  02/28/17
(insane quoter of bland SCOTUS oral arguments)
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  03/21/17
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Vibrant saffron death wish
  03/21/17
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Cyan stage
  04/04/17
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Vibrant saffron death wish
  04/04/17
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Could you please tell me, besides this vo...
Light demanding market
  04/17/17
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Vibrant saffron death wish
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insecure azure national
  04/17/17
An enterprising person could turn this thread into a helluva...
Bateful Ticket Booth Roast Beef
  04/17/17
...
Silver spectacular library
  04/17/17
Couldn't be framed that way at all. Would have to adopt a d...
Bateful Ticket Booth Roast Beef
  04/17/17
...
Vibrant saffron death wish
  04/17/17
“Being a judge was the most terrifying event in my life,” sh...
Vibrant saffron death wish
  04/17/17
lmao
vivacious maniacal hominid state
  04/17/17
...
Vibrant saffron death wish
  04/17/17
"Sotomayor later explained that the 'Supreme Court room...
amber sanctuary
  04/17/17
odd case.
olive pungent gaming laptop
  04/17/17
...
Vibrant saffron death wish
  04/17/17
what does she mean here? MS. MAYNARD: The statute provide...
Racy nibblets
  04/27/17
...
Vibrant saffron death wish
  04/28/17
Lol is that for real?
Bonkers water buffalo
  05/22/17
In 7 years, Sotomayor has written zero divide majority opini...
Light demanding market
  05/22/17
Has Roberts let her sign any of the denial of cert. orders?
beady-eyed narrow-minded church national security agency
  05/22/17
So the liberal justices don't trust her either
amber sanctuary
  05/22/17
But she just issued yet another lone dissenting opinion in t...
amber sanctuary
  06/20/17
TBF, she holds down 3 full-time jobs
Yellow Lay
  11/02/22
SCOTUS rules 8-0. Sotomayor separately concurs, joined by n...
Bonkers water buffalo
  06/05/17
Kagan, the majority opinion author, probably wiped her ass w...
amber sanctuary
  06/05/17
Maybe she thinks she can't be seen as going around following...
beady-eyed narrow-minded church national security agency
  06/05/17
...
Vibrant saffron death wish
  06/20/17
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Odious Kitchen
  06/26/17
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  09/27/17
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: But I'm really -­ I'm very intereste...
Light demanding market
  10/03/17
lol thank you Obama
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  10/03/17
*turns directly to Gorsuch* "Anyway your honor as I wa...
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  10/03/17
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: I'm sorry, but why -- JUSTICE KAGAN: W...
Light demanding market
  10/03/17
Slate has an article praising Sotomayor's devastatingly effe...
exhilarant haunted graveyard plaza
  10/04/17
lol
Yapping Navy Home Mad Cow Disease
  10/05/17
lol not gonna click but assume it's that mouthbreather Stern
Light demanding market
  10/05/17
Beautiful photo they used of her http://www.slate.com/con...
amber sanctuary
  10/05/17
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: You know, the other night I had some peo...
domesticated dilemma round eye
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Libs sweating profusely as extreme diabetic Sotomayor grabs ...
amber sanctuary
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chestnut 180 deer antler bbw
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"and as it turns out, the cupcakes that 'vanished' due ...
indecent parlor dragon
  12/20/17
come on post the whole thing.... MS. WAGGONER: Certainly ...
Pearly slippery parlour
  12/20/17
...
concupiscible messiness filthpig
  12/20/17
MS. WAGGONER: It's not just about what the individual think...
Light demanding market
  12/20/17
I'm sure he said it's not implicated or whatever, but the an...
indecent parlor dragon
  12/20/17
JUSTICE ALITO: One thing that's disturbing about the recor...
Light demanding market
  12/20/17
One day CJ Roberts is just going to come out and say "s...
indecent parlor dragon
  12/20/17
Jfc
irate mad-dog skullcap institution
  07/11/18
Sotomayor wrote a stupid concurrence in a sentencing case th...
amber sanctuary
  01/08/18
Lol
irate mad-dog skullcap institution
  06/05/18
in a case where the lawyer admitted the client's guilt over ...
Brass rough-skinned church building
  01/17/18
The frustration in Alito's voice jumps off the page
amber sanctuary
  01/17/18
...
Brass rough-skinned church building
  01/18/18
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: It's not going to change whether the unio...
Light demanding market
  02/26/18
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: -- Breyer said, every single decision aff...
Light demanding market
  02/26/18
Roberts FINALLY let Sotomayor write a majority opinion...for...
amber sanctuary
  02/27/18
*Sotomayor hits send* *notices typo in first line*
beady-eyed narrow-minded church national security agency
  03/21/18
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: I -- I'm sorry, I'm -- I'm now -- I gues...
Light demanding market
  02/27/18
Lol
irate mad-dog skullcap institution
  06/05/18
"Not surprisingly, Sotomayor was first out of the gate ...
beady-eyed narrow-minded church national security agency
  03/28/18
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concupiscible messiness filthpig
  05/02/18
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Dull infuriating stead
  06/05/18
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amber sanctuary
  06/26/18
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Glassy Corner
  06/27/18
This has now been empirically confirmed: https://empiricalsc...
Stirring sinister gas station
  08/05/18
lmao wow
costumed cuck
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curious duck-like center
  09/17/18
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carmine embarrassed to the bone therapy degenerate
  03/28/19
jeez, wow
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Seedy tank
  09/17/18
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: As I read the record, there were suggesti...
amber sanctuary
  10/01/18
jesus, that sentence is rough.
Offensive black sneaky criminal
  10/01/18
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Glassy Corner
  10/09/18
Lol
irate mad-dog skullcap institution
  10/09/18
wow
hyperactive titillating business firm regret
  03/28/19
Was reading a recent transcript and Soto had a two-page long...
amber sanctuary
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JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: You answered --you answered discretion, ...
Light demanding market
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amber sanctuary
  02/23/20
https://twitter.com/AndyGrewal/status/1237806423628750848 ...
domesticated dilemma round eye
  03/11/20
mexico has 8 corona cases, at this point theyre better off s...
Charcoal lascivious brethren
  03/11/20
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Greedy startled new version affirmative action
  09/26/20
http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4698966&fo...
amber sanctuary
  11/26/20
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amber sanctuary
  01/07/22
"millions of cases" 2022 bump
multi-colored mustard set
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Garnet tanning salon
  01/17/22
Apparently KBJ giving her a run for her money with very long...
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amber sanctuary
  10/31/22
De jure / de facto.
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“edit: I regret this thread. posted it during a shitty...
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Light demanding market
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Date: January 15th, 2013 6:48 PM
Author: Cyan stage

seems like every argument gets derailed in the first couple minutes by Sotomayor asking these annoying "tough" questions which are all nakedly political in a way that isn't true for the other judges except maybe Scalia

edit: I regret this thread. posted it during a shitty edgy conservative phase in school. she is far from the worst justice.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440041)



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Date: January 15th, 2013 6:50 PM
Author: Misunderstood Personal Credit Line Multi-billionaire

how do her clerks fail to prep her so badly

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440053)



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Date: January 15th, 2013 6:54 PM
Author: Cyan stage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440077)



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Date: January 16th, 2013 4:46 PM
Author: Electric onyx chad

This

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22445482)



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Date: December 9th, 2015 7:33 PM
Author: Chartreuse soggy orchestra pit

she picks her clerks based on "diversity"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#29345235)



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Date: January 15th, 2013 6:50 PM
Author: tripping yarmulke preventive strike

link to examples?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440054)



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Date: January 15th, 2013 6:56 PM
Author: Cyan stage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440084)



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Date: January 15th, 2013 7:02 PM
Author: tripping yarmulke preventive strike

I remember that. Scalia did a nice job of getting her to STFU

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440106)



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Date: January 15th, 2013 7:02 PM
Author: Cyan stage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440108)



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Date: January 15th, 2013 7:05 PM
Author: tripping yarmulke preventive strike

if she's dumb, how did she end up salutatorian at princeton?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440118)



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Date: January 15th, 2013 7:07 PM
Author: Clear Very Tactful Gay Wizard

edit: apparently yale doesnt have honors

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440133)



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Date: January 15th, 2013 7:25 PM
Author: Learning disabled party of the first part half-breed

her A+ in "latino race theory"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440228)



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Date: January 16th, 2013 4:51 PM
Author: Fuchsia bawdyhouse

*Calls Latina an AA recipient*

*Is reminded that she graduated salutatorian in undergrad*

*Blank Stare*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22445508)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 1:37 PM
Author: Metal incel kitty

see links below. she was AA to get in and AA to get the prize.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22883415)



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Date: March 18th, 2013 3:20 PM
Author: scarlet hairy legs

I know you gave this response to make Sotomayor appear more competent than she really is, but all it does is make Princeton look like a TTT in decline.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22839295)



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Date: March 18th, 2013 3:47 PM
Author: Mildly autistic lilac indian lodge

LOL @ xo racists.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22839446)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 1:29 PM
Author: Metal incel kitty

she was most definitely NOT the salutatorian there. there were two awards given out for "top" students in achievements but they were not based on grades. sotomayor herself said she struggled the first two years.

the awards were given to an insanely brilliant guy and the puerto rican trailblazer for her various accomplishments. but it wasn't grades.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22883383)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 1:51 PM
Author: tripping yarmulke preventive strike

she got straight A's her last two years of college. That's impressive, given that the average GPA at the time was 3.10 or so.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22883456)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 2:30 PM
Author: Metal incel kitty

"almost" all As. by that time she was in the upper level courses in her identity politics major. to respond to the poaster i was responding to, she was not the salutatorian of princeton.

everyone says she's not nearly as smart as she thinks. Tribe said it. the lawyers who appeared before her said it. listen to any oral argument and you will draw the same conclusion. she's of ordinary intelligence, tremendous drive to self-promote, a bit of a bully, and was the right gender and ethnicity for the current climate.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22883667)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 2:55 PM
Author: tripping yarmulke preventive strike

citation for "identity politics" major? Wiki says history. Also, she graduated summa cum laude. Citation that that's not based on grades at princeton?

I don't care if she's "as smart as she thinks." She's smart.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22883784)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 3:04 PM
Author: Metal incel kitty

it was history, and she took identity politics courses in her major. he senior thesis was "The Impact of the Life of Luis Munoz Marin on the Political and Economic History of Puerto Rico, 1930-1975."

she was a latina activist there: http://images.politico.com/global/news/090528_sotomayorarticle.jpg

http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pictures/s-z/sotomayor_sonia/Sotomayor-thesis.pdf

it was identity politics through and through.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22883832)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 3:06 PM
Author: arrogant slap-happy pisswyrm

She looks pretty good cot damn.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22883839)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 3:07 PM
Author: Metal incel kitty

does she look cheerful to you?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22883846)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 3:13 PM
Author: arrogant slap-happy pisswyrm

lolno, but you can literally see her nips.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22883878)



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Date: June 5th, 2018 9:43 AM
Author: Mind-boggling Useless Roommate

Update:

http://i.imgur.com/V3ST1.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#36186498)



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Date: June 5th, 2018 9:42 AM
Author: Mind-boggling Useless Roommate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#36186492)



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Date: April 7th, 2016 11:11 AM
Author: cowardly office patrolman

tbf, Munoz Marin is interesting as fuck. A real deal case story on how to corrupt a rebel and make them a tool of your bidding.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#30220131)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 3:11 PM
Author: Shaky idiot heaven

She admits her scores weren't comparable to her classmates. She's reddit intellectual smart, not scotus justice smart.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22883862)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 2:46 PM
Author: glittery giraffe house

*gets mostly A's in two years of latino studies*

*is one of the two smartest people at princeton in her year*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22883742)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 2:53 PM
Author: tripping yarmulke preventive strike

She majored in history, and princeton didn't even have latino studies back then. pwn pwn pwn

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22883777)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 2:56 PM
Author: glittery giraffe house

*gets mostly A's in two years of history (a feat clearly beyond the median autoadmit poster)*

*is one of the two smartest people at princeton in her year*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22883788)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 1:34 PM
Author: Metal incel kitty

not the salutatorian.

http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pictures/s-z/sotomayor_sonia/Bowen_remarks.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22883397)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 1:34 PM
Author: Metal incel kitty

compare this press release's description of sotomayor and the other winner of the Pyne.

http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pictures/s-z/sotomayor_sonia/Pyne_Prize_pr76.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22883403)



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Date: March 27th, 2013 12:49 PM
Author: arrogant slap-happy pisswyrm

http://www.wellscap.com/people/david_germany.html

This is the other winner.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22889641)



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Date: June 5th, 2018 9:53 AM
Author: comical trailer park

writing class profs give affirmative action to dark skinned students..I saw it in law school...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#36186563)



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Date: January 15th, 2013 7:29 PM
Author: obsidian public bath

MR. JOHNSON: Even if you say it does, it still doesn't -- it's not an element of the crime.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Could you simplify that? Could you simplify that?

http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/11-9540.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440257)



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Date: January 15th, 2013 7:30 PM
Author: Cyan stage

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440263)



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Date: March 18th, 2013 3:19 PM
Author: scarlet hairy legs

A+

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22839292)



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Date: March 18th, 2013 3:44 PM
Author: Frum codepig alpha



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22839424)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 1:32 PM
Author: beady-eyed narrow-minded church national security agency

Please let Wise Latina transcript quotations become part of a shtick.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22883392)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 2:32 PM
Author: Angry bat shit crazy field mexican

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22883676)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 2:56 PM
Author: Thirsty Digit Ratio Pocket Flask

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22883789)



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Date: May 7th, 2013 2:49 PM
Author: talking red really tough guy

God bless you mr johnson.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#23151386)



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Date: April 17th, 2017 9:14 PM
Author: vivacious maniacal hominid state



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33097584)



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Date: January 15th, 2013 7:30 PM
Author: obsidian public bath

MR. JOHNSON: Yes. In California you -just entry with intent is all you need, with intent to commit.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: But the unlawfulness is not necessary.

MR. JOHNSON: It's not necessary and that's the point--

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: No matter what he said, he wasn't convicted of a generic crime because all he was convicted of under California law was entering and -

MR. JOHNSON: Exactly.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: -- with intent. That's your point.

http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/11-9540.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440261)



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Date: January 15th, 2013 7:32 PM
Author: obsidian public bath

What the IAA says is that the government can sue when the violation occurs.

Now -

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Mr. Liman, I understand your argument, but I have a fundamental difficulty, okay?

http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/11-1274.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440277)



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Date: January 16th, 2013 2:12 PM
Author: obsidian public bath

MR. MICHEL: It does. I will tell you, the reason why it does, it's in the doctrine of collateral estoppel. It affects the inventor. It's affecting the inventor in this case. This holding of the State district court and the State court of appeals are now before the Patent Office.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: I'm sorry. How does it -- the patent's invalid.

MR. MICHEL: I'm sorry?

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: The patent's invalid. Nothing the Court does here is going to change that invalidity. That's what I don't understand.

MR. MICHEL: Correct.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: He's not going to get his patent back from this action.

MR. MICHEL: That's correct.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: He's going to get money for losing it, maybe.

MR. MICHEL: Correct.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: So how does it affect the patent?

MR. MICHEL: There is a pending continuation patent.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: We're back to that issue, okay.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22444583)



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Date: January 16th, 2013 2:15 PM
Author: Cyan stage

jfc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22444600)



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Date: January 16th, 2013 2:19 PM
Author: Glassy Corner

on what a wise MPEP scholar

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22444630)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 2:33 PM
Author: Angry bat shit crazy field mexican

LOL

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22883682)



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Date: June 14th, 2015 1:04 PM
Author: costumed cuck

ty to whoever bumped this thread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#28116252)



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Date: December 9th, 2015 7:27 PM
Author: Cerebral site ape

ouch

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#29345190)



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Date: March 2nd, 2016 6:15 PM
Author: Drunken pit useless brakes



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#29963646)



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Date: April 17th, 2017 9:15 PM
Author: vivacious maniacal hominid state



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33097593)



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Date: December 20th, 2017 3:13 PM
Author: nofapping aphrodisiac theatre pozpig



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#34968123)



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Date: October 4th, 2023 11:54 AM
Author: Magical aggressive doctorate

gosh

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#46883179)



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Date: June 28th, 2025 1:12 PM
Author: Magical aggressive doctorate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#49056282)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 1:14 PM
Author: obsidian public bath

JUSTICE KAGAN: A couple where both people are over the age of 55.

MR. COOPER: And Your Honor, again, the marital norm which imposes upon that couple the obligation of fidelity -­

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: I'm sorry, where is this -­

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: I'm sorry, maybe you can finish your answer to Justice Kagan.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: I'm sorry.

MR. COOPER: It's designed, Your Honor, to make it less likely that either party to that -- to that marriage will engage in irresponsible procreative conduct outside of that marriage.

http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/12-144.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22883314)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 2:33 PM
Author: Angry bat shit crazy field mexican



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22883686)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 2:57 PM
Author: Thirsty Digit Ratio Pocket Flask

holy shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22883790)



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Date: April 23rd, 2013 11:57 PM
Author: pontificating menage

JFC

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#23064421)



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Date: May 7th, 2013 2:52 PM
Author: talking red really tough guy

yes!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#23151398)



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Date: November 4th, 2013 1:45 PM
Author: talented aquamarine crackhouse pistol

Ho Lee Fuk

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#24367971)



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Date: February 4th, 2014 12:03 PM
Author: Doobsian irradiated fat ankles



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#24954959)



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Date: March 2nd, 2016 9:04 PM
Author: multi-colored mustard set

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#29965048)



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Date: November 13th, 2016 12:41 PM
Author: Boyish bisexual trust fund masturbator

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#31897188)



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Date: January 31st, 2017 4:30 PM
Author: cracking lodge sound barrier



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Date: March 26th, 2013 3:01 PM
Author: obsidian public bath

MR. WAXMAN: Well, Justice Ginsburg, two things. First of all, if you look at page 10 -- or page 14, footnote 7 of our yellow brief, you'll see all of the references made in the advocacy before the State court judge by my -- my brother here, not recognizing repeatedly that what Oxford was asking for was a dismissal and a transfer to individual arbitration -­ bilateral arbitration.

There was no mistake whatsoever in the New Jersey State courts that Oxford's position was that -­

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Mr. Waxman -­

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Finish your answer.

MR. WAXMAN: Yes -- that bilateral arbitration was what was requested, and -- but there was similarly no dispute that both parties -- certainly Oxford took the position based on an understanding of New Jersey law at the time, because this Court hadn't decided class action question, that the decision would be submitted in the first instance to the arbitrator as it was in Stolt-Nielsen.

Yes, Justice Sotomayor. I apologize.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: That's my question. Did you never -- you never argued that it was beyond the power of the arbitrator to decide this question, did you?

http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/12-135.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22883812)



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Date: April 17th, 2017 9:20 PM
Author: Vibrant saffron death wish



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33097630)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 3:02 PM
Author: obsidian public bath

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: How do we draw the line, that line that you just asked us to draw between direct and indirect? How do we articulate that line?

MR. SHAUGHNESSY: The direct -­

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Because now you're -­ now you're articulating a different line. You are saying this -- the hypothetical that Justice Kagan posited is not storage-related, it is something else-related. It's towing-related. What's the difference?

http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/12-52.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22883825)



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Date: May 7th, 2013 2:53 PM
Author: talking red really tough guy

180

the hypothetical that Justice Kagan posited is not storage-related, it is something else-related. It's towing-related. What's the difference?

This is doobsian.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#23151402)



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Date: May 7th, 2013 3:01 PM
Author: scarlet hairy legs

BUT BUT BUT where do we draw the line???



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#23151454)



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Date: October 15th, 2013 8:00 PM
Author: Canary nighttime selfie prole

tbf, pretty sure alito asks that question the most

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#24240591)



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Date: April 23rd, 2013 11:32 PM
Author: obsidian public bath

MR. CLEMENT: Well, a couple of things, Justice Sotomayor. I went back to the Tropiano case, because it is sort of the progenitor of this whole line of Second Circuit cases, and I noticed two things. One, I noticed it was written by a district court sitting by designation. So, I mean, I -- I don't mean anything by that other than this is not Marbury. Second, I would say that the second thing I noticed is that the debt -­

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Oh, I think when I sat as a district court judge, I would have been insulted by that.

MR. CLEMENT: Well, it's not -- it's a good thing you're no longer sitting in that capacity, Your Honor -­

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Okay. It's really -­

MR. CLEMENT: -- because I -- I certainly mean you no offense. You could write Marbury here.

http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/12-357.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#23064169)



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Date: April 17th, 2017 9:19 PM
Author: vivacious maniacal hominid state

underrated

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33097621)



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Date: April 17th, 2017 9:21 PM
Author: Vibrant saffron death wish



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33097643)



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Date: April 23rd, 2013 11:33 PM
Author: obsidian public bath

MS. HARRINGTON: That he was trying to get commitment; that was one of the choices. What they circled was the recommendation. Now, who knows why a jury does anything. I assume, like I said, it's because that was what the e-mails were about, they were about the recommendation.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: I didn't think they circled recommendation. They circled his honest advice, didn't they?

MS. HARRINGTON: No, they circled -- it says the General Counsel's recommendation -- this is on the JA 142. That's where it -­

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: I'm sorry.

MS. HARRINGTON: JA 142. What they circled was the General Counsel's recommendation to approve the commitment. And I think that wording is very helpful to us, because it's not just that he's trying to obtain a recommendation from the General Counsel. He's trying to obtain a particular recommendation, the recommendation to approve the commitment. I think that encapsulates both the property and the obtaining that is the theory of our case.

http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/12-357.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#23064187)



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Date: October 8th, 2013 2:10 PM
Author: obsidian public bath

JUSTICE ALITO: Those were all created by the dairy industry or by the Nixon campaign, is that correct?

MR. BURCHFIELD: That's not -- as I understand -- as I read the lower court decision in Buckley, that is correct.

In addition, you also have -- you also have a thick volume -­

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Then how is it that -­

MR. BURCHFIELD: In addition, you also have -- you also have a thick volume -- you have a thick volume of the Code of Federal Regulations of the Federal Election Commission, which did not exist at the time of Buckley.

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Thank you, counsel.

MR. BURCHFIELD: Thank you, Your Honor.

http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/12-536_21o2.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#24193593)



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Date: February 4th, 2014 11:33 AM
Author: fear-inspiring stag film people who are hurt

LOL

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#24954821)



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Date: April 17th, 2017 9:55 PM
Author: crusty cuckold

Lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33097898)



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Date: October 4th, 2023 11:55 AM
Author: Magical aggressive doctorate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#46883188)



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Date: October 8th, 2013 2:20 PM
Author: obsidian public bath

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: I'm a little confused, okay? I'm confused because we're talking in the abstract. This decision was based on a motion to dismiss. And there is a huge colloquy about what happens and doesn't happen. We don't have a record below.

MS. MURPHY: Well -

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: I mean, I can go into the news, as Justice Breyer suggested. It's very hard to think that any candidate doesn't know the contributor who has enough money to give not only to himself or herself, but to any of his or her affiliates who are supporting him or her. I mean, it's nearly common sense, hard to dispute. So you're saying it can't happen, but I don't see charges of coordination going on that much.

MS. MURPHY: I guess I'm not sure what you're talking about happening.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#24193646)



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Date: January 31st, 2017 4:09 PM
Author: concupiscible messiness filthpig



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#32510971)



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Date: April 17th, 2017 9:23 PM
Author: vivacious maniacal hominid state



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33097674)



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Date: November 4th, 2013 1:41 PM
Author: obsidian public bath

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: But you told me -- you started by saying that our personal jurisdiction and venue provisions and jurisprudence center on a defendant's action, not on the plaintiff's action or injury. Calder suggests otherwise. But how do you respond, not only to Justice -- I'll do this after, but let me just pose the question and you can answer it on your rebuttal.

MR. BUCHOLTZ: Thank you.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: I'm worried about the Internet effects from somebody's account in Vermont by someone in Illinois -- the hypothetical on page 19, who steals something from a store in California.

MR. BUCHOLTZ: Thank you, Justice Sotomayor. If I may, I'll reserve the balance of my time and, as you suggested, address that on rebuttal. Thank you.

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Okay. Thank you, counsel.

http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/12-574_k5gm.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#24367941)



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Date: June 14th, 2015 12:07 PM
Author: shivering exciting hell voyeur

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#28116026)



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Date: April 17th, 2017 9:27 PM
Author: vivacious maniacal hominid state



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33097704)



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Date: December 3rd, 2013 10:06 PM
Author: obsidian public bath

MR. CLEMENT: The second thing is I think you have to understand in the context -­

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Did a unitary contract?

MR. CLEMENT: I'm sorry.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: I'm not sure I understand that point.

http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/12-462_p86a.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#24561978)



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Date: March 21st, 2017 9:02 PM
Author: Vibrant saffron death wish



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#32884698)



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Date: May 19th, 2023 10:59 AM
Author: irate mad-dog skullcap institution



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#46330742)



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Date: May 24th, 2023 12:14 AM
Author: irate mad-dog skullcap institution



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Date: March 2nd, 2015 6:13 PM
Author: Light demanding market

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: That's sort of hard to understand because we made it very clear in Smiley and in Hildebrant that we're defining legislature in this clause as meaning legislative process.

MR. CLEMENT: With with all due respect, I disagree.

--

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: And if a State constitution says that the people hold the power and they can choose a commission or however else they want to do it, isn't that the legislative process?

MR. CLEMENT: No, it's not. But, I mean, I disagree with you, Justice Sotomayor, but that's not particularly important.

---

THIS IS THE GOLD MINE BELOW

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MR. CLEMENT: I think they would have the power to do an initiative. I don't think they would have to do the power to do a referendum.

One of the ironies is that my friends on the other side like to talk about the power of the people, but the maps that the commission promulgates are not subject to override by referendum the way the maps of the legislature were before Proposition 106 passed.

So I think all the legislature could do is what any citizen should do which is to propose an alternative map by initiative process. But whatever that is, that's not the primary power to prescribe congressional districts or to make election regulations. That puts the State legislature on the same plain as the people, and we know --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: So please tell me --

JUSTICE SCALIA: Do I understand you to say that it would be okay if the legislature itself established this commission?

MR. CLEMENT: I would I would take the position that that is okay because that is a delegation of authority. If you disagree with me, I mean, you know, you may disagree with me, but I think my position is consistent with what this Court said in the McPherson case about the authority of the State legislatures to prescribe rules for electorates. They can delegate that to some commission and come up with it that way, but if they want to take the authority back, as they did in the in the Michigan piece of legislation at issue in McPherson, you bet they can do that, and if the State tries to stop them from taking it back, that's a constitutional problem.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: So --

JUSTICE KAGAN: So tell me, Mr. Clement, there's the State sets up this independent commission and the independent commission has a veto power on the State's redistricting. In other words, the State can do redistricting and then it submits it to the independent commission, and the independent commission can say, No, go back, do it again.

MR. CLEMENT: Well, if I mean, I guess it depends a little bit on the details of how that works and whether who's got the ultimate last say in the matter.

http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/13-1314_q8l1.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#27418340)



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Date: March 2nd, 2016 7:50 PM
Author: multi-colored mustard set

"So what about the lemon pledge? I just want to make sure that there is enough lemon pledge"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#29964226)



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Date: March 21st, 2017 9:03 PM
Author: Vibrant saffron death wish



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#32884712)



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Date: October 4th, 2023 11:56 AM
Author: Magical aggressive doctorate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#46883194)



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Date: January 15th, 2013 6:49 PM
Author: Sexy flirting box office

yeah but she does have dat LIFE EXPERIENCE

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440045)



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Date: January 15th, 2013 6:50 PM
Author: puce jewess volcanic crater

obama's america

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440048)



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Date: January 15th, 2013 6:50 PM
Author: Anal floppy knife

"But what is the rule you want us to articulate?"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440051)



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Date: January 15th, 2013 6:52 PM
Author: Coral galvanic gaping

Anyone that asks or cares about SCOTUS questions is a fucking idiot.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440066)



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Date: January 15th, 2013 6:53 PM
Author: Cyan stage

?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440073)



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Date: January 15th, 2013 6:55 PM
Author: Coral galvanic gaping

they're useless

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440079)



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Date: January 15th, 2013 6:55 PM
Author: Misunderstood Personal Credit Line Multi-billionaire

naw

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440082)



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Date: January 15th, 2013 7:05 PM
Author: Clear Very Tactful Gay Wizard

There seem to be some cases where someone (usually Breyer or Scalia) gapes opposing counsel and that exchange is included as a big part of the opinion which Kennedy signs on to. Whether or not he would've voted that anyway, of course, is an unanswerable question.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440122)



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Date: January 16th, 2013 2:18 PM
Author: Glassy Corner

it's not that oral arg is relevant; it's that oral arg is evidence that we have a fucking moronic spic on the court.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22444621)



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Date: March 18th, 2013 3:16 PM
Author: stimulating cumskin point

and the wise italian politico or his nigga slave are any smarter?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22839265)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 1:18 PM
Author: Aqua Arousing Feces Address

scalia is certainly smarter.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22883335)



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Date: May 7th, 2013 2:25 PM
Author: Stubborn Chapel Genital Piercing

His Obamacare performance tops anything in this thread. It was a sad day for those of us who have thought of him as a conservastud and went to law school when his various 90s era pwnages were steadily populating the case books.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#23151242)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 2:44 PM
Author: fiercely-loyal boistinker abode

thomas doesn't try to peacock for counsel

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22883735)



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Date: January 31st, 2017 4:29 PM
Author: fiercely-loyal boistinker abode

damn right son

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#32511131)



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Date: January 15th, 2013 6:53 PM
Author: appetizing rehab partner

bc she's full of herself.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440071)



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Date: January 15th, 2013 6:53 PM
Author: Learning disabled party of the first part half-breed

just wait til there are three "wise latinas" on the court

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440072)



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Date: April 23rd, 2013 11:35 PM
Author: cobalt haunting principal's office

jesus christ, that would be like a drunk mariachi band in tijuana.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#23064202)



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Date: June 5th, 2018 9:55 AM
Author: comical trailer park

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#36186576)



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Date: January 15th, 2013 7:04 PM
Author: Violent Crimson Area

diabeetus

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440116)



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Date: March 2nd, 2016 9:03 PM
Author: multi-colored mustard set

One can hope

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#29965032)



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Date: January 15th, 2013 7:08 PM
Author: transparent tattoo

just out of curiosity what drives you to listen to SCOTUS oral argument? i can see reading the briefs and opinions, but why would anyone care about the oral argument (unless maybe you are an appellate lawyer trying to improve, i guess).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440136)



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Date: January 15th, 2013 7:11 PM
Author: tripping yarmulke preventive strike

"Reading the tea leaves"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440161)



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Date: January 16th, 2013 2:24 PM
Author: ocher keepsake machete factory reset button

They are the most fun part. Few people read them, so from time to time you can PWN opposing counsel when they make a tenuous argument based on the opinion by quoting some language from the opinion writer that shows that the court considered and rejected whatever bullshit they are trying to promote. It doesn't win motions but it tells opposing counsel that you are more through than they are.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22444648)



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Date: April 23rd, 2013 11:49 PM
Author: apoplectic garrison windowlicker

Kill yourself.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#23064351)



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Date: October 23rd, 2013 12:46 PM
Author: razzmatazz drab spot famous landscape painting



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#24290871)



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Date: October 31st, 2016 3:37 PM
Author: Sick motley rigpig

? there is nothing wrong with his response

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#31768563)



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Date: December 20th, 2017 3:24 PM
Author: fragrant green scourge upon the earth



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Date: January 15th, 2013 7:12 PM
Author: Heady Low-t Locus Legend

REMINDER: They just make shit up. If you argue against this position then you are stupid as fuck. And by the way, brown v. board and roe v. wade are prime examples of not following the law and making shit up. Horrible legal decisions.

About as prestigious as being on the Court of "People who make shit up in order to change the law in a way that is somewhat controversial but morally popular." I mean, that is kindov cool but lets quit acting like its scholarship.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440165)



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Date: January 15th, 2013 7:13 PM
Author: Cyan stage

This is another problem altogether.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440175)



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Date: January 16th, 2013 5:16 PM
Author: Heady Low-t Locus Legend



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22445650)



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Date: January 15th, 2013 7:23 PM
Author: maroon misanthropic stage quadroon

cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440216)



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Date: January 15th, 2013 7:32 PM
Author: Coral galvanic gaping

If someone wants to grow medical marijuana in their house for personal consumption, the commerce clause is all powerful and we should ignore Lopez and makes 6 leaps of faith about how it could affect interstate commerce.

But when a coal plant wants to spew NOx, SO2 with impunity across state lines, the commerce clause is weak and worthless and the cross state air pollution rule needs to be struck down.

Lol at double thinking Orwellian reptiles.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440273)



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Date: January 15th, 2013 7:34 PM
Author: Cyan stage

Clarence Thomas was on the right side of Gonzalez v. Raich, dude.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440289)



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Date: November 13th, 2016 12:22 PM
Author: geriatric range mediation



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Date: January 16th, 2013 5:05 PM
Author: Bonkers water buffalo

Dee, you got pwned last time you made this point, but again: the EPA case wasn't a commerce clause case at all.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22445592)



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Date: January 16th, 2013 5:07 PM
Author: Clear Very Tactful Gay Wizard



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22445606)



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Date: February 16th, 2013 4:09 PM
Author: Provocative Mentally Impaired University Sandwich



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22650844)



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Date: May 21st, 2013 10:23 AM
Author: Ivory turdskin temple



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#23241250)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 2:55 PM
Author: Coral galvanic gaping

jfc I destroy full time attorneys on this website

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22883785)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 3:01 PM
Author: Gay persian

cr, actually

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22883817)



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Date: April 23rd, 2013 11:54 PM
Author: Mildly autistic lilac indian lodge



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#23064407)



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Date: October 15th, 2013 7:34 PM
Author: nubile sooty senate wagecucks

To be fair,

(Part-time attorney)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#24240378)



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Date: June 5th, 2018 6:01 PM
Author: comical trailer park

yeah, and the Dems NEVER doublethink

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#36189802)



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Date: June 14th, 2015 1:00 PM
Author: Heady Low-t Locus Legend



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#28116245)



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Date: June 26th, 2015 10:43 AM
Author: Heady Low-t Locus Legend

REMINDER

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#28203556)



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Date: December 20th, 2017 3:23 PM
Author: chestnut 180 deer antler bbw

Great post. RIP

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#34968218)



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Date: October 4th, 2023 11:38 AM
Author: Magical aggressive doctorate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#46883093)



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Date: January 15th, 2013 7:31 PM
Author: Naked Charismatic Milk

oral arguments are flame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22440270)



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Date: January 16th, 2013 5:07 PM
Author: Razzle Swollen Dog Poop Step-uncle's House

She's in poor health anyway. She'll be lucky to live another ten years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22445601)



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Date: May 23rd, 2023 11:52 PM
Author: costumed cuck

ay caramba, que suerte!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#46348189)



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Date: February 16th, 2013 3:58 PM
Author: Cyan stage

http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/11-1085.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22650818)



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Date: March 18th, 2013 3:10 PM
Author: obsidian public bath



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22839240)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 2:50 PM
Author: Bright background story meetinghouse

bendito

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22883758)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 5:31 PM
Author: Thirsty Digit Ratio Pocket Flask



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22884762)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 5:28 PM
Author: obsidian public bath



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22884729)



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Date: March 27th, 2013 12:36 PM
Author: Frum codepig alpha



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22889573)



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Date: March 27th, 2013 12:45 PM
Author: obsidian public bath



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#22889630)



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Date: April 23rd, 2013 11:55 PM
Author: deep carnelian legal warrant

ive heard both of them speak, they seem brilliant

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#23064410)



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Date: April 24th, 2013 12:22 AM
Author: pontificating menage

Kagan is very smart. She's up there with Roberts. Soto is just pandering to the masses. I guess its fine, I bet they vote almost 100% the same way. We're just teaching people that we don't live in a meritocracy, which i guess has always been the case (given that the sup ct was historically 100% white male).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#23064694)



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Date: May 7th, 2013 1:56 PM
Author: arrogant slap-happy pisswyrm

"which i guess has always been the case (given that the sup ct was historically 100% white male)."

This is absurd. What % of the population that would be eligible for SCOTUS were not white males for most of this country's history? 2%?

You can point to decent examples that question how merit-based America was/is, but this is not one of them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#23151035)



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Date: June 14th, 2015 12:02 PM
Author: Provocative Mentally Impaired University Sandwich

Libs are stupid. Bc we didn't have transkins of color on the court it was RACIST

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#28116003)



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Date: April 24th, 2013 12:00 AM
Author: mauve native

Reminder: This is why Justice Thomas keeps his mouth shut.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#23064439)



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Date: April 24th, 2013 12:04 AM
Author: copper excitant space

which is pretty sad actually.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#23064491)



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Date: December 9th, 2015 7:34 PM
Author: Big ruddy nursing home elastic band

This was the first thought that came to my mind.

But wasn't he GC at Monsanto?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#29345240)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 5:53 PM
Author: Cyan stage

Justice Thomas is brilliant and our greatest living justice.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#35655304)



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Date: April 24th, 2013 12:03 AM
Author: copper excitant space

I can't even read all of this drivel. She is as smart as any of the other justices. She asks questions that are as compelling as Kagan's. And let's not forget she graduated scl from Princeton. There's no affirmative action in that designation. How many of you all have done that?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#23064469)



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Date: April 24th, 2013 12:08 AM
Author: obsidian public bath

Her thesis was about a Puerto Rican no one had heard of, which was graded by the new Latino studies prof after she blitzed the school with a campaign to create one. BUT I BET IT WAS ALL ON THE MERIT THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN COMFORTABLE GIVING HER A B+ FOR HER LATINO THESIS.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#23064526)



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Date: April 24th, 2013 12:11 AM
Author: copper excitant space

You have to go into the thesis phase with summa grades to earn the scl post-thesis.

So ridiculous. No one would be questioning a white student's scl.

I heard a white law firm partner told her she was only at YLS on affirmative action. I would have told him about my Princeton scl and proceeded to bitch slap him.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#23064564)



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Date: April 24th, 2013 12:17 AM
Author: obsidian public bath

Brother, the article boasting about her academics says she got "almost straight A's her last two years," which is two caveats too many.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#23064637)



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Date: May 7th, 2013 3:05 PM
Author: scarlet hairy legs



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#23151474)



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Date: November 13th, 2016 12:35 PM
Author: beady-eyed narrow-minded church national security agency



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#31897131)



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Date: May 7th, 2013 1:57 PM
Author: Frum codepig alpha

LOL you are truly a dumb clueless idiot.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#23151045)



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Date: May 7th, 2013 2:57 PM
Author: talking red really tough guy

(member of the latino law students ass'n.)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#23151426)



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Date: February 4th, 2014 11:35 AM
Author: fear-inspiring stag film people who are hurt

i hope this was a low IQ schtick, jfc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#24954830)



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Date: May 7th, 2013 1:42 PM
Author: obsidian public bath



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#23150962)



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Date: May 21st, 2013 8:58 AM
Author: obsidian public bath

LOL http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/supreme_court_brief.jsp

she hates us for criticizing oral argument.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#23240954)



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Date: October 15th, 2013 7:23 PM
Author: Glassy Corner

"GAME POST"????

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who has credited affirmative action with helping her attain an Ivy League education, scoffed.

"It's always wonderful for minorities that they finally get in, they finally have children, and now you're going to do away [with] that preference for them," she said. "It seems that the game post keeps changing every few years for minorities."

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304330904579137840115177628

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#24240309)



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Date: October 15th, 2013 7:25 PM
Author: Diverse Big-titted Piazza Idea He Suggested

i tink she meant goal poast

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#24240325)



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Date: October 15th, 2013 7:37 PM
Author: curious duck-like center

LOL

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#24240402)



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Date: October 23rd, 2013 12:32 PM
Author: Peach contagious resort

but don't they get the alumni preference?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#24290793)



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Date: November 4th, 2013 1:45 PM
Author: histrionic abusive hall dingle berry

Every pro-AA person has been arguing for abolition of alum preferences but now that Sotomayor has been to Princeton she starts arguing for keep the preferences. How stupid is she? Obviously she is not truly stupid but she sure is not smart.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#24367970)



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Date: June 5th, 2018 9:46 AM
Author: Mind-boggling Useless Roommate

Julia pls respond

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#36186526)



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Date: October 23rd, 2013 12:14 PM
Author: curious duck-like center



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#24290715)



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Date: February 4th, 2014 11:29 AM
Author: Glassy Corner

http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2486228&mc=65&forum_id=2#24954283

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#24954801)



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Date: February 4th, 2014 11:35 AM
Author: Shimmering kink-friendly marketing idea clown

Now that these elite libs (the lib justices) have to deal with AA on a daily basis, will they now overturn it?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#24954831)



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Date: April 7th, 2016 10:59 AM
Author: beady-eyed narrow-minded church national security agency



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#30220080)



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Date: June 5th, 2018 9:55 AM
Author: comical trailer park

ALL scotus justices are LIB...all federal judges are lib...period

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#36186580)



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Date: March 10th, 2014 10:43 PM
Author: Cyan stage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#25167423)



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Date: April 22nd, 2014 8:29 PM
Author: Cyan stage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#25428392)



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Date: October 26th, 2014 4:18 PM
Author: Glassy Corner

<<Sotomayor said one of her attributes is her sense of “powerful concentration,” but acknowledged that the way that sometimes plays out during oral arguments — where she becomes a domineering figure — is bothersome to colleagues.>>

no, her utter stupidity is bothersome to colleagues.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/justices-who-graduated-from-yale-law-school-hold-court/2014/10/25/e0f09c38-5a28-11e4-8264-deed989ae9a2_story.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#26590699)



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Date: January 25th, 2015 3:51 PM
Author: Light demanding market



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#27183891)



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Date: June 14th, 2015 11:56 AM
Author: Light demanding market



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#28115976)



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Date: June 14th, 2015 12:08 PM
Author: razzmatazz drab spot famous landscape painting



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#28116032)



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Date: June 26th, 2015 10:57 AM
Author: Heady Low-t Locus Legend



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#28203680)



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Date: November 2nd, 2015 3:33 PM
Author: Bonkers water buffalo

16  JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR:  So I guess my question

17 is, we've now taken a word, concreteness, that the Court

18 in recent years has applied to injuries by citizens and

19 when they can bring actions or not.  A generalized

20 grievance, we said, of a taxpayer is not concrete

21 enough.

22  We've taken this doctrine, and you're trying

23 to superimpose the word "concrete" into legally created

24 rights.  But for ­­ for two decades ­­ on, I mean, two

25 centuries, we've always said in our case law, that

1 injury in fact is the breach of a legally recognized

2 right.  Where do we have a right?  I think that's

3 Justice Kagan's question.

4  JUSTICE KAGAN:  No.

5  JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR:  It's a requirement.

6  CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS:  Why don't you answer

7 Justice Sotomayor's question first?

8  MR. PINCUS:  Respectfully, I don't think

9 that the cases say that.  We discuss them in detail in

10 our ­­ in our blue brief.  I think what the Court said

11 in Warth and Linda R.S. was about what the Court said in

12 Lujan, which is, de facto injuries as to which there's

13 no cause of action can be made actionable when Congress

14 creates a cause of action.

15  That's quite different from saying that

16 something that doesn't qualify under this Court's

17 injury­in­fact standard as tangible harm can be made

18 actionable, which is what the Ninth Circuit decided

19 here.

20  And I also ­­ I want to also ­­

21  JUSTICE KAGAN:  Well, I agree with you

22 entirely on that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#29094975)



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Date: November 2nd, 2015 3:48 PM
Author: razzmatazz drab spot famous landscape painting



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#29095089)



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Date: November 2nd, 2015 3:50 PM
Author: Drunken pit useless brakes



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#29095109)



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Date: November 2nd, 2015 3:42 PM
Author: chrome generalized bond organic girlfriend

At least Thomas is smart enough to realize he's a dumbass and shuts the fuck up during oral argument

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#29095040)



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Date: December 9th, 2015 7:33 PM
Author: pearl skinny woman

, the pumo lisped

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#29345234)



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Date: December 9th, 2015 7:15 PM
Author: Cyan stage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#29345132)



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Date: December 9th, 2015 8:00 PM
Author: Cerebral site ape

Sotomayor shows the fatigue of one camouflaging how very often she seems to be ineffectively punching above her real intellectual weight.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#29345432)



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Date: December 10th, 2015 10:41 AM
Author: amber sanctuary

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Mr. Garre, this is the

fundamental problem that I think Justice Alito is

pointing to, and you're sort of talking past each other.

So maybe I'll explain his view.

(Laughter)

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Strange, isn't that?

JUSTICE ALITO: I ­­--I could use--­­ I can use the help.

(Laughter.)

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: I think I'll explain what his view is.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#29349193)



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Date: July 11th, 2018 11:06 AM
Author: irate mad-dog skullcap institution



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#36404527)



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Date: January 20th, 2016 6:11 PM
Author: amber sanctuary



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#29641178)



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Date: February 16th, 2016 10:45 AM
Author: Rusted hateful ratface



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#29841863)



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Date: March 2nd, 2016 2:59 PM
Author: Light demanding market

In abortion case, J. Sotomayor kept asking questions after Roberts signaled that time was over. "Sonia is off," J. Kennedy said to Roberts.

https://twitter.com/scotusreporter/status/705116862640746497

MR. KELLER: Mr. Chief Justice, my time has expired, if may address it.

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Sure.

MR. KELLER: Except even there, the clinic was not just closed for a single day. It was closed for a longer period of time. And there was an El Paso clinic that actually reopened also months later. So an as applied challenge could allow a clinic, if an undue burden, if a substantial obstacle were shown because of driving distances or capacity in the future, in that discrete instance, but we're in this facial challenge posture, Petitioner's bear the heavy burden to show at least a large--

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Why isn't that selfevident in any area that's--

JUSTICE KENNEDY: Sonia is off.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: This area of western Texas, it's as big as California. No? Bigger?

MR. KELLER: I'm not sure about California, but it certainly is a large size.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Huge area.

MR. KELLER: Absolutely.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Why isn't it selfevident if you have a law that says you can only be an ASC provider, and who's going to come in and say, I can't be an ASC provider, but it's an undue burden on me, or it's an undue burden that's selfevident on the women in that area?

MR. KELLER: Well, the right is possessed by the women. The clinics and doctors can bring challenges.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Exactly. So why don't we take this lawsuit as those women saying just that?

MR. KELLER: Because there was no--

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: You can't have a law that has marginal, if any, medical benefit be applied to this procedure anywhere where there's an undue burden on people on

women.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#29962253)



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Date: March 2nd, 2016 3:12 PM
Author: Vibrant saffron death wish

LOL

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#29962296)



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Date: March 2nd, 2016 3:18 PM
Author: amber sanctuary

SONIA IS OFF

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#29962340)



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Date: March 2nd, 2016 3:53 PM
Author: Light demanding market



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#29962615)



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Date: April 13th, 2016 5:16 PM
Author: Big ruddy nursing home elastic band



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#30265882)



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Date: March 2nd, 2016 6:06 PM
Author: Light demanding market



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#29963600)



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Date: March 5th, 2016 2:03 AM
Author: Light demanding market



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#29984075)



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Date: March 21st, 2016 5:24 PM
Author: Light demanding market

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: So we announce a rule-- so we announce a rule--

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: All right. Justice Sotomayor.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: We announce a rule that every change that affects an incumbent gives the incumbent the right to challenge the line of change.

MR. CARVIN: I think any-- any time somebody is injured-in-fact--

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Just answer the question yes. Every-- this is now an incumbency protection standing rule.

MR. CARVIN: No.

http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/14-1504_5he6.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#30107127)



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Date: June 28th, 2018 3:03 PM
Author: Big ruddy nursing home elastic band



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#36329279)



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Date: March 21st, 2016 5:36 PM
Author: Razzle Swollen Dog Poop Step-uncle's House

She has an incredibly unhealthy diet and diabetes. She will likely pass away within a decade.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#30107192)



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Date: March 23rd, 2016 8:35 PM
Author: Hairraiser Violent Ladyboy Den

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-03-23/sotomayor-helps-puerto-rico-argue-its-bankruptcy-case

Sotomayor Helps Puerto Rico Argue Its Bankruptcy Case

MARCH 23, 2016 10:42 AM EST

By

Noah Feldman

Before Tuesday, I’d have said that Puerto Rico had no chance to win its legal fight to let its municipalities and utilities declare bankruptcy. That's how the island hopes to resolve its overwhelming debt problems, but the federal bankruptcy code says that it can't.

That's what the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held last summer, unanimously. The statute seemed so clear that even Judge Juan Torruella, the appellate court’s only Puerto Rican member, concurred in an outraged separate opinion criticizing the federal law.

Puerto Rico's Slide

Then Sonia Sotomayor stepped in. Oral arguments before the Supreme Court rarely change the outcome of a case, yet Tuesday's session may turn out to be the exception. In a fascinating and unusual argument, Justice Sotomayor, who is herself of Puerto Rican descent, spoke by my count an astonishing 45 times. Sotomayor left no doubt that she was speaking as an advocate.

The interpretation of the law she favored would make the system fairer to Puerto Rico, allowing the commonwealth to create its own emergency bankruptcy measures outside federal law. But it depends on a highly doubtful reading of the statute, one that stretches credulity when read into the text. Ideally, Congress will hear what happened at the oral argument and pass one of the reform proposals it’s currently considering that would spare the court from having to decide the case.

First, Sotomayor walked Puerto Rico’s attorney, Christopher Landau, through his own argument with a precision that exceeded his own. She answered other justices’ hostile questions for him, better than he did. Then she dominated Matthew McGill, the lawyer for the creditors of Puerto Rico’s electrical utility, who are fighting the bankruptcy bid. In the second half of the argument, the other justices mostly stood by and let her go at him.

Sotomayor’s position, borrowed from Landau’s creative brief, was that the federal bankruptcy law doesn't mean what the appeals court considered obvious. The law says that Puerto Rico is to be considered a state for purposes of the bankruptcy code, except that, unlike a state, it may not authorize its municipalities (and by extension, its utilities) to resolve debts under Chapter 9 of the code.

According to the interpretation favored by Sotomayor, this provision does indeed mean that Puerto Rico can’t use federal bankruptcy law to let its electrical utility go into default. But at the same time, she clearly believes, the same law should be interpreted to allow Puerto Rico to create its own bankruptcy laws, under which it might be able to do just that.

The appeal of this interpretation is that it spares Puerto Rico the indignity of the First Circuit’s interpretation. According to that court, Puerto Rico is prohibited from having its own bankruptcy laws, just as the 50 states are prohibited. But uniquely (along with Washington, D.C.), Puerto Rico can’t enable municipalities or utilities to enter Chapter 9 bankruptcy.

The drawback of this reading is that by implication it gives Puerto Rico a power that no state has had for many decades – the power to create its own bankruptcy code. It seems extraordinarily unlikely that Congress really meant to give it that power, and no one has thought it did until now.

What was even more remarkable than Sotomayor’s dominance of the argument was the effect it seemed to have on her liberal colleagues. Justice Elena Kagan did something that’s rare in an oral argument: She announced that Landau (speaking under Sotomayor’s tutelage) had clarified her view. "I think I get what you're saying now, which I didn't when I started," Kagan told Landau. Initially, Kagan had seemed skeptical that Puerto Rico’s argument could be made to fit the statutory text. Now she was claiming to see the light.

Later Kagan made the point more explicit. "I came in here thinking your best argument is straight on the text," she told McGill. "But now I have a better understanding of Mr. Landau’s interpretation of the text."

Justice Stephen Breyer, who had seemed skeptical of Landau’s position, also appeared to change sides, or at least to be considering doing so.

The case, Puerto Rico v. Franklin California Tax-Free Trust, will be decided by seven justices, since the late Justice Antonin Scalia hasn’t been replaced and Justice Samuel Alito is recused. That means Sotomayor would need four votes to win. Chief Justice John Roberts spoke briefly, expressing skepticism about Puerto Rico’s position. Justice Clarence Thomas was silent. So was Justice Anthony Kennedy.

That leaves Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who could conceivably provide a fourth liberal vote in favor of Puerto Rico. She spoke sparingly, but pointedly. When Landau first stood up, she asked him if Puerto Rico would be allowed to let its electrical utility default on its debt, or whether that would violate the provision of the Constitution that says states may not impair the obligation of contracts.

Technically, not all of the Constitution applies to Puerto Rico, and Landau declined to say that Puerto Rico would be barred from a default that abrogated the utility’s contractual obligations in its debt contracts. In practice, however, there’s little doubt that the contracts clause of the Constitution would indeed apply to Puerto Rico. Ginsburg knows that perfectly well.

That’s important. She almost certainly asked her question to signal that allowing Puerto Rico to engage in some sort of emergency default wouldn’t actually sink the creditors’ real-world claims. This is as close as Ginsburg gets to hinting that she might be prepared to hold for the commonwealth.

The silent participant in this entire unusual argument is Congress, which is considering legislation that would give Puerto Rico some way to restructure its utilities’ debts. The liberal justices are telling Congress that if it doesn’t help Puerto Rico bail itself out, they may do it themselves.

I’m sure all four liberals hope that Congress was listening. A holding like the one Sotomayor was pushing would be good policy, but would push the envelope of statutory interpretation. Congress should resolve this issue soon, before June, so that a hard case doesn’t make questionable law.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#30123514)



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Date: April 5th, 2016 8:39 PM
Author: Vibrant saffron death wish



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Date: April 7th, 2016 10:54 AM
Author: Light demanding market

"Wow this job is way harder than I thought it would be." http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2016/04/07/sonia-sotomayor-the-job-of-a-justice-has-gotten-much-more-complicated/?mod=WSJBlog

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#30220064)



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Date: April 13th, 2016 5:28 PM
Author: Glassy Corner



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Date: April 17th, 2017 9:35 PM
Author: vivacious maniacal hominid state



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Date: April 18th, 2016 8:45 AM
Author: Light demanding market

Gonna be an epic day for her idiocy today!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#30296195)



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Date: April 18th, 2016 9:23 PM
Author: Passionate Brunch Reading Party

KILLSHOT

During an oral argument that frequently veered into the swamps of supposition, speculation and outright imagination, Justice Sotomayor stuck to these concrete, undisputed numbers. In an exchange with Donald Verrilli, the United States Solicitor General, she asked him to confirm that “you only deport 400,000” annually.

“We have resources for about 400,000,” Mr. Verrilli responded. “Right.”

“So we have basically 10 million, nine hundred thousand people that cannot be deported because there’s not enough resources, correct?” Justice Sotomayor said.

“That’s correct,” Mr. Verrilli replied.

“So,” Justice Sotomayor concluded, “they are here whether we want them or not.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#30300465)



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Date: April 18th, 2016 9:25 PM
Author: Elite jap theater

Make America Great Again

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#30300477)



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Date: April 22nd, 2016 6:27 AM
Author: geriatric range mediation

http://www.vdare.com/articles/obamnesty-scotus-hearing-shows-wise-latina-sotomayor-is-embarrassment-to-court

Obamnesty SCOTUS Hearing Shows “Wise Latina” Sotomayor Is Embarrassment To Court

See also: Obamnesty At SCOTUS: Administration Ceding Opening For State-Level Immigration Patriotism

VDARE.com has long been very skeptical of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the ”wise Latina” and self-proclaimed “Affirmative Action Baby” whose nomination by Obama in 2009 was an early indication of his crude racial identity politics. Sotomayor’s bullying performance during the April 18 U.S. vs. Texas oral arguments fully justified this skepticism. She has become an embarrassment to the Court.

Supreme Court Immigration

With hundreds of demonstrators, many bused in by La Casa de Maryland, poised at the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court building waving both commercially and hand-made signs approving the Obama Administration’s Executive Amnesty effort, the battle lines had been drawn. Inside, at 10 o’clock the Crier of the U.S. Supreme Court banged her gavel and intoned: “Please rise….” then…“God save the United States and this honorable court,” while the justices, in order of seniority, took their seats perched above the lectern. Today would be different: there would be only one case, U.S. v. Texas, and it would last 90 minutes—something not done often during the Court’s Term, due to its national importance, described by a student of the Court as having the potential, “…to be the most important in the nation’s history.” [The Implications of United States v. Texas , By John Miano, April 14, 2016]

For the past 20 years, I have listened to oral arguments in the Court as the guest of the late Justice Antonin Scalia. On this day, it became abundantly clear that the Court’s decision will determine if America can maintain its cultural identity. And if the Obama Administration is victorious, the result will accelerate the decline not only of the historic American nation, but of its founding legal document, the U.S. Constitution.

A question early in the arguments by Chief Justice John Roberts to Donald Verrilli, Obama’s Solicitor-General of the U.S., saw that possibility:

So that [an administrative and arbitrary deadline on deportation] somehow binds the Executive branch now…this hasn’t been approved by the Executive branch prior to this point, either, and yet it’s a fairly significant departure.

In short, the Obama Administration was seeking legal justification for its unprecedented and open-ended policy of “deferred action,” or presidential non-enforcement of current immigration laws dealing with those illegally in the country.

Throughout the entire length the oral arguments, one question must have been shared by many in the packed audience which included Attorney-General Loretta Lynch: would the presence of Justice Scalia have brought about a victory for the forces of patriotic immigration reform?

Four years ago almost to the day, April 25, 2012, Scalia in his dissent in a case as applicable to the Texas governor seeking protections of his residents today, as it was to Arizona’s governor then, wrote:

A Federal Government that does not want to enforce the immigration laws as written, leaves the States’ border unprotected against immigrants whom those laws would exclude. So the issue is a stark one. Are the sovereign States at the mercy of the Federal Executive’s refusal to enforce the Nation’s immigration law?

Both DACA and DAPA, the result of Executive Orders, were on trial at the Supreme Court. But there was another, more immediate, threat to Texas and the other 25 states that joined it in bringing their legal suits against the Obama Administration: their standing. It was evident from the outset that the four Leftist justices—Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sotomayor and Elena Kagan—would attempt to prove that the states had a no legal right to bring the case to the Supremes in the first place.

In his opening remarks challenging that ploy by the “Gang of Four,” the Solicitor-General of Texas, Scott A. Keller, undertook to explain that both DACA and DAPA had produced an “injury resulting from the challenged action.” Hence, his state and the others had “standing,” and were legally entitled to bring the lawsuit.

But his introduction was short-circuited. Within thirty seconds, Keller was challenged by Justice Sotomayor. Comparing apples to oranges, Sotomayor opined that the Fairness Act, passed in 1990, allowed more illegal aliens deferred status than either DACA or DAPA.

Keller response was immediate:

Keller: DAPA is an unprecedented unlawful assertion of executive power. DAPA would be one of the largest changes in immigration policy in our nation’s history

But here he was interrupted again:

Sotomayor: How can you say that? I mean, we have the Fairness Act that happened in 1990. It granted basically the same thing, deferred action and work authorization, to 1.5 million people out of 4 million. That was a 40 percent of the immigrant population of the time was affected. Here, the best estimate is that only 35 percent are affected. So at least once before, the President has taken action that has a greater percentage effect than now. So why is it the largest? Is it the number of people?

Keller: Well, the Family Fairness Program, first of all, was done pursuant to statutory authority [emphasis mine]. It was a voluntary departure program.

Was Sotomayor oblivious to the difference between the two references?

On at least three occasions in which I was in the Court, Sotomayor been corrected as to her reading of the law. In Arizona’s attempt to deal with damaging impact of illegal immigration, Paul Clement, the former U.S. Solicitor-General under President George W. Bush, and now attorney for Arizona, on two separate occasions stated that Justice Sotomayor had “misread the law,” a polite way of telling the justice that she was wrong. (See also Race Preferences at the Supreme Court, American Renaissance, December 18, 2015).

So Sotomayor is, in my opinion, an embarrassment to the Court. Apparently, this does not bother her; I do not believe her attitude will change.

erinmurphyBut if Keller was adequate in his defense of his state’s interests, perhaps the most impressive advocate on either side that day was Erin E. Murphy (right) who represented the U.S. House of Representatives. During her brief time in responding to questions—about 15 minutes—Murphy made it clear why she was there defending Texas.

Again, it was Sotomayor, who apparently really is incapable of understanding legal distinctions, who interrupted Murphy brusquely after the House’s counsel had just begun her opening remarks:

Murphy: Three years ago the Executive asked Congress to enact legislation that would have given it the power to authorize most of the people that are living in this country unlawfully to stay, work, and receive benefits, and Congress declined. Now the Executive comes before this Court with the extraordinary claim that it has had the power to achieve the same—

Sotomayor: Excuse me. Was that really all was that part of a package for a pathway to citizenship?

Murphy: It was not a pathway to citizenship. It was a pathway to lawful presence in the country [emphasis mine] that would have allowed individuals to have a legal status, to remain in this country, and Congress has not created a legal status for the category of individuals covered by DAPA.

Responding to a question by the Chief Justice, Murphy encapsulated the unconstitutional nature of DAPA and DACA:

Murphy: Whatever the Executive wants to label that, under its own regulations, deferred action status is equated with lawful presence. So if you cross it (“unlawful presence”) out of the DAPA memo, it’s still part of the regulatory scheme that says once we’ve taken this extra step, not just of deferring the removal of you, but of putting you into this status, that changes your eligibility for work authorization and benefits in this country. And once the Executive is doing that, we are far outside the notion of mere enforcement discretion.

What Murphy had repeated was Keller’s claim that both DACA and DAPA are illegal seizures of congressional powers which, under the U.S. Constitution, are reserved exclusively to the legislature—a concept apparently alien to Sotomayor and her three allies.

How will the case end? After two decades of observing Court proceedings, I know that justices generally do not telegraph their final vote, disguising it by the type of question they ask. However, I believe most in the courtroom that morning felt that Sotomayor and three other justices will vote in favor of the administration’s extraordinary Executive Order.

I believe also that there are at least three votes to uphold the Constitution. If Justice Anthony Kennedy, who asked the least probing questions, sides with the three, then the 4-4 split will be a victory for immigration reform patriots…at least for now. That tie will mean that the 5th Circuit Court decision last November will prevail, and that both DACA and DAPA will cease.

Or should. But do not discount the possibility of this Administration’s willingness to proceed in this matter, with Justice Sotomayor, its staunch defender, leading the charge. The Romans may have said it best: lex non rex.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#30324080)



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Date: June 20th, 2016 6:10 PM
Author: amber sanctuary



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#30749570)



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Date: June 20th, 2016 9:32 PM
Author: Light demanding market



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#30750963)



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Date: October 4th, 2016 3:29 PM
Author: Light demanding market

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Counselor, assume I agree with you--

MS. BELL: Yes, Your Honor.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: --that there were parts of your argument, both below and here in your brief, that suggested the instructional error. But what I find is that the way you presented the argument was confusing.

MS. BELL: Yes.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: It took a lot of teasing out.

Does--how does that affect what we do.

MS. BELL: Yes, Your Honor.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: That--that you weren't clear in the instruction, don't you forfeit that argument?

MS. BELL: No, Your Honor. The--the claim is that the intent to--we challenge--

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: I--I know what your two claims are.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2016/15-5991_7k47.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#31555779)



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Date: October 4th, 2016 3:31 PM
Author: Primrose Ceo Love Of Her Life

Jfc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#31555796)



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Date: October 4th, 2016 3:43 PM
Author: amber sanctuary



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Date: July 11th, 2018 11:18 AM
Author: irate mad-dog skullcap institution

Wtf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#36404592)



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Date: October 4th, 2023 11:57 AM
Author: Magical aggressive doctorate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#46883202)



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Date: October 4th, 2016 3:33 PM
Author: concupiscible messiness filthpig

She is the embodiment of the future Libs want for you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#31555809)



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Date: December 6th, 2017 7:11 AM
Author: domesticated dilemma round eye



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Date: October 18th, 2016 9:05 PM
Author: Aromatic Sweet Tailpipe



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Date: October 24th, 2016 10:13 AM
Author: Light demanding market

JUSTICE GINSBURG: When the--when the component--when the article of manufacture isn't sold apart from the entire product, how should the--the judge charge the jury on determining the profit attributable to the infringing article?

MR. FLETCHER: So we think that there'd be two factual questions in a case where that's disputed. The first one would be what is the relevant article, and there may be a dispute on that as there is in this case.

The second question, once the fact-finder identifies the relevant article, is the question that you asked, which is how much of the total profits from the device are attributable to the infringing article?

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: What's the first step, and how do you figure it out?

JUSTICE GINSBURG: May he--may he complete his answer to my question?

MR. FLETCHER: So Justice Ginsburg, on the second step, we urge the Court not to speak to that in a lot of detail because it hasn't been briefed in this case.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2016/15-777_1b82.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#31714547)



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Date: October 24th, 2016 10:29 AM
Author: brindle station toilet seat

jfc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#31714610)



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Date: October 24th, 2016 10:32 AM
Author: razzmatazz drab spot famous landscape painting



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#31714619)



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Date: November 13th, 2016 12:49 PM
Author: Boyish bisexual trust fund masturbator

LJL

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#31897263)



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Date: November 18th, 2016 1:51 PM
Author: pearl skinny woman



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Date: March 21st, 2017 8:59 PM
Author: Vibrant saffron death wish



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#32884679)



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Date: April 17th, 2017 10:12 PM
Author: Electric onyx chad

I'm shocked that the transcript skipped over Sotomayor burying her head in her hands muttering "Ai pappi"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33098016)



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Date: October 31st, 2016 3:36 PM
Author: Ruby property headpube

Parody or actual transcript?

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: So are you suing them

16 just for the pictures that are in their catalogue? Is

17 that what you're suing them for?

18 MR. BURSCH: We're not suing them; they're

19 suing us.

20 JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: I'm sorry. You're

21 right. I apologize.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#31768560)



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Date: October 31st, 2016 3:38 PM
Author: Big ruddy nursing home elastic band

Sotomayor McCheese

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#31768566)



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Date: October 31st, 2016 3:38 PM
Author: Sick motley rigpig

holy fucking shit.

that said, i love this thread.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#31768569)



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Date: October 31st, 2016 3:38 PM
Author: Ruby property headpube

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2016/15-866_j426.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#31768574)



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Date: October 31st, 2016 3:51 PM
Author: amber sanctuary

LO SIENTO SEÑOR!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#31768641)



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Date: April 27th, 2017 1:18 PM
Author: zombie-like adventurous dysfunction

Lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33176314)



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Date: June 5th, 2018 9:59 AM
Author: Cheese-eating School Cafeteria Lettuce



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#36186609)



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Date: October 31st, 2016 3:39 PM
Author: Ruby property headpube

same oral argument

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: -- but you can't stop

2 them from selling their --

3 MR. BURSCH: We can't stop them from using

4 their copyright to do anything on a printed page, or

5 even to take these designs and, like I said, put it on a

6 lunchbox or a notebook. But their copyright does not --

7 JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: I transposed the two of

8 you. I apologize.

9 MR. BURSCH: No problem, Justice Sotomayor.

-----

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Mr. Bursch, I go back to

19 this point, because I'm a little confused. You started

20 by saying to me you don't want to be stopped from

21 manufacturing this particular uniform.

22 MR. BURSCH: Correct.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#31768576)



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Date: November 12th, 2016 7:47 PM
Author: Sick motley rigpig



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#31892440)



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Date: November 12th, 2016 7:48 PM
Author: Silver spectacular library



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Date: November 13th, 2016 1:12 PM
Author: dashing burgundy locale double fault

This is devastating

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#31897511)



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Date: November 14th, 2016 5:35 PM
Author: massive casino twinkling uncleanness



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#31908117)



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Date: January 18th, 2017 3:50 PM
Author: Light demanding market

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Let's go back to, if we can, the earlier part of Justice Breyer's question.

1052 has two components. You can't disparate or falsely suggest a connection with a person institution. Are you challenging or saying that the second part of 1052 falsely suggests the connection is unconstitutional as well?

MR. CONNELL: That's not the question before this Court.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: I know. But your argument earlier was that if someone slanders or libels an individual by saying--Trump before he was a public figure--Trump is a thief and that becomes their trademark, that even if they go to court and prove that that's a libel or a slander, that trademark would still exist and would be capable of use because otherwise canceling it would be an abridgement of the First Amendment?

MR. CONNELL: I believe that's correct.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: That makes no sense.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2016/15-1293_l6gn.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#32400676)



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Date: January 31st, 2017 4:11 PM
Author: Abnormal trump supporter base

can you provide more context? is sotomayor saying that "trump is a thief" is not protectd by the first amendment?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#32510992)



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Date: January 31st, 2017 4:13 PM
Author: Bearded flatulent cruise ship halford

think she's saying you can't trademark it because it's libelous.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#32511003)



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Date: January 31st, 2017 4:15 PM
Author: Abnormal trump supporter base

yeah but she's saying that the position that you can't cancel the trademark because it would violate the first amendment to do so is ridiculous, no?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#32511014)



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Date: January 31st, 2017 4:17 PM
Author: Bearded flatulent cruise ship halford

she's saying that's the lawyers position and it makes no sense.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#32511027)



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Date: January 31st, 2017 4:18 PM
Author: Abnormal trump supporter base

yeah, so she thinks that the first amendment doesn't protect the claim "trump is a thief"?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#32511034)



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Date: January 31st, 2017 4:15 PM
Author: concupiscible messiness filthpig



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#32511013)



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Date: February 16th, 2017 6:27 PM
Author: Vibrant saffron death wish



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#32638729)



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Date: February 28th, 2017 3:05 PM
Author: Light demanding market

MR. STOLER: Well, as Justice Kagan and I discussed, on day is an additional punishment. And one day--

JUSTICE KAGAN: She's Justice Sotomayor.

Mr. STOLER: I'm sorry. Wrong end.

(Laughter.)

JUSTICE KAGAN: She was the one helping you.

(Laughter.)

MR. STOLER: I'm sorry.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: This is the--

JUSTICE KAGAN: I was the one who wasn't.

(Laughter.)

MR. STOLER: I got my ends mixed up. I'm sorry.

But as was--as was indicated, that is an additional sentence. That is an additional punishment that is provided for according to the statutory provisions.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2016/15-9260_bq7c.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#32720301)



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Date: February 28th, 2017 3:10 PM
Author: amber sanctuary

Kagan scrambling to get on the record that she's not associated with Sotomayor's comments

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#32720341)



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Date: March 21st, 2017 9:05 PM
Author: Vibrant saffron death wish



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#32884719)



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Date: February 28th, 2017 3:14 PM
Author: Big ruddy nursing home elastic band

MR. HILLIARD: That's right.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Personal general jurisdiction.

MR. HILLIARD: Justice Ginsburg -- I mean, excuse me -- Justice Sotomayor. I do not --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: That's the first time ever.

(Laughter.)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#32720365)



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Date: March 21st, 2017 9:02 PM
Author: olive pungent gaming laptop

(insane quoter of bland SCOTUS oral arguments)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#32884706)



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Date: March 21st, 2017 8:57 PM
Author: Vibrant saffron death wish



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#32884666)



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Date: April 4th, 2017 12:04 AM
Author: Cyan stage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#32987781)



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Date: April 4th, 2017 12:12 AM
Author: Vibrant saffron death wish



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#32987833)



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Date: April 17th, 2017 8:50 PM
Author: Light demanding market

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Could you please tell me, besides this voluntary settlement issue, what else is jurisdictional? What else besides something that doesn't match 7512, the furlough and suspension?

MR. FLETCHER: Right.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: So if we go down your route, and I'm writing that opinion--which I hope not, but if I were--

(Laughter.)

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2016/16-399_3f14.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33097360)



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Date: April 17th, 2017 8:54 PM
Author: Vibrant saffron death wish



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33097389)



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Date: April 17th, 2017 9:18 PM
Author: insecure azure national



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33097612)



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Date: April 17th, 2017 9:20 PM
Author: Bateful Ticket Booth Roast Beef

An enterprising person could turn this thread into a helluva long form piece. Judiciously constructed it could even sneak into the WaPo or similar.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33097631)



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Date: April 17th, 2017 9:21 PM
Author: Silver spectacular library



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33097647)



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Date: April 17th, 2017 9:45 PM
Author: Bateful Ticket Booth Roast Beef

Couldn't be framed that way at all. Would have to adopt a derailing/collegiality angle. The dummy angle would have to be read in by readers with brain cells.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33097834)



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Date: April 17th, 2017 9:21 PM
Author: Vibrant saffron death wish



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33097651)



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Date: April 17th, 2017 9:27 PM
Author: Vibrant saffron death wish

“Being a judge was the most terrifying event in my life,” she said. “I was convinced I was gonna fail” but was determined to “die trying,” working seven days a week and long hours each day as she broke into her new positions.

“I’m not the smartest person in the Supreme Court room,” she said.

http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/At-UC-Berkeley-Justice-Sotomayor-discusses-10991435.php

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33097707)



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Date: April 17th, 2017 9:38 PM
Author: vivacious maniacal hominid state

lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33097789)



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Date: April 17th, 2017 9:50 PM
Author: Vibrant saffron death wish



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33097857)



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Date: April 17th, 2017 9:48 PM
Author: amber sanctuary

"Sotomayor later explained that the 'Supreme Court room' is the name given to one of the dining areas near the Union Station Sbarro where she works nightly shifts."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33097847)



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Date: April 17th, 2017 9:50 PM
Author: olive pungent gaming laptop

odd case.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33097858)



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Date: April 17th, 2017 9:57 PM
Author: Vibrant saffron death wish



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33097918)



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Date: April 27th, 2017 1:14 PM
Author: Racy nibblets

what does she mean here?

MS. MAYNARD: The statute provides powerful

incentives for the sponsors to continue through the

process, Justice Sotomayor.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: All incentives have a

way of failing. Just look at our society.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33176273)



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Date: April 28th, 2017 10:40 PM
Author: Vibrant saffron death wish



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33188530)



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Date: May 22nd, 2017 4:17 PM
Author: Bonkers water buffalo

Lol is that for real?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33368278)



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Date: May 22nd, 2017 3:50 PM
Author: Light demanding market

In 7 years, Sotomayor has written zero divide majority opinions.

https://empiricalscotus.com/2017/05/22/the-first-batch/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33368115)



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Date: May 22nd, 2017 3:55 PM
Author: beady-eyed narrow-minded church national security agency

Has Roberts let her sign any of the denial of cert. orders?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33368136)



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Date: May 22nd, 2017 4:01 PM
Author: amber sanctuary

So the liberal justices don't trust her either

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33368169)



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Date: June 20th, 2017 10:21 PM
Author: amber sanctuary

But she just issued yet another lone dissenting opinion in the personal jurisdiction case

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33605693)



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Date: November 2nd, 2022 7:14 PM
Author: Yellow Lay

TBF, she holds down 3 full-time jobs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#45426918)



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Date: June 5th, 2017 3:20 PM
Author: Bonkers water buffalo

SCOTUS rules 8-0. Sotomayor separately concurs, joined by no one, to note that while she thinks that the unanimous Court got it right on the clear text of the statute, she's nonetheless "troubled" because the legislative history doesn't support the outcome. Not because the legislative history contradicts or undermines the outcome in any way, but rather because there is no legislative history on the issue at all.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/16pdf/16-74_5i36.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33479116)



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Date: June 5th, 2017 3:39 PM
Author: amber sanctuary

Kagan, the majority opinion author, probably wiped her ass with Sotomayor's useless 2-page concurrence.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33479235)



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Date: June 5th, 2017 3:44 PM
Author: beady-eyed narrow-minded church national security agency

Maybe she thinks she can't be seen as going around following the clear text of statutes without objection, thereby undermining the authority of legislative history in future cases.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33479272)



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Date: June 20th, 2017 10:16 PM
Author: Vibrant saffron death wish



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33605651)



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Date: June 26th, 2017 6:30 PM
Author: Odious Kitchen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#33647915)



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Date: September 27th, 2017 9:01 AM
Author: chestnut 180 deer antler bbw



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#34307550)



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Date: October 3rd, 2017 9:09 AM
Author: Light demanding market

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: But I'm really -­ I'm very interested in the answer, which is Justice Gorsuch is -- is asking how you -- where do you draw the line? So acceptable civil vagueness and non-acceptable civil vagueness?

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2017/15-1498_886b.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#34354683)



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Date: October 3rd, 2017 9:13 AM
Author: ultramarine insanely creepy goal in life

lol thank you Obama

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#34354698)



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Date: October 3rd, 2017 9:22 AM
Author: Mahogany twisted macaca

*turns directly to Gorsuch*

"Anyway your honor as I was saying..."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#34354715)



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Date: October 3rd, 2017 9:13 AM
Author: Light demanding market

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: I'm sorry, but why --

JUSTICE KAGAN: Well, why is it directed there if it doesn't say that? I mean, in fact, we said the opposite in Eastex. We said employees seeking to improve working conditions through resort to administrative and judicial forums, essentially the legislatures and the courthouses and the agencies, is covered by the mutual aid or protection clause. So, you know, in Eastex, we came up against this question, said it was very clear that the mutual aid and protection clause swept further than the workplace itself, as long as the ultimate goals were workplace-related, whether you took those goals to the -- in the -- you know, activity in the workplace or in the agencies or in the courts, it didn't matter at all, it was all covered by Section 7.

MR. CLEMENT: That's right, Justice Kagan, but the key words there are "resort to." There's no right in Section 7 or anywhere else in the NLRA to proceed as a class once you get

there.

--

MR. CLEMENT: Well, the issue is just as the employer can raise a numerosity defense or a typicality defense, the employer can raise a defense that you agreed to arbitrate this claim.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Mr. Clement -­

MR. CLEMENT: And that should be enforceable -- and then, when you get to the arbitration forum, just as you take Rule 23 as a given, you should take the rules of the arbitration forum as a given. And this is the way it applies in every other context -­

JUSTICE GINSBURG: Mr. Clement -- Mr. Clement, you recognize that this kind of contract, this -- there is no true bargaining. It's the employer says you want to work here,

you sign this.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2017/16-285_1qm2.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#34354697)



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Date: October 4th, 2017 10:06 PM
Author: exhilarant haunted graveyard plaza

Slate has an article praising Sotomayor's devastatingly effect bench rhetoric:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/10/sonia_sotomayor_s_simple_devastating_question_in_gill_v_whitford.html

Here's an example they highlight of her overwhelming intellectual force:

“I really don’t understand what that means,” Sotomayor responded.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#34369892)



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Date: October 5th, 2017 8:15 AM
Author: Yapping Navy Home Mad Cow Disease

lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#34371981)



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Date: October 5th, 2017 11:43 AM
Author: Light demanding market

lol not gonna click but assume it's that mouthbreather Stern

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#34373047)



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Date: October 5th, 2017 11:46 AM
Author: amber sanctuary

Beautiful photo they used of her

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/09/171004_JURIS_Sotomayor-GillvWhitford.jpg.CROP.promo-xlarge2.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#34373080)



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Date: December 6th, 2017 4:55 AM
Author: domesticated dilemma round eye

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: You know, the other night I had some people over and one of them brought a box of cupcakes and one of the cupcakes was smashed against the box. That was the only cupcake not eaten.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2017/16-111_f314.pdf

Yes, she really said that. During a Supreme Court oral argument.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#34850765)



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Date: December 20th, 2017 3:07 PM
Author: amber sanctuary

Libs sweating profusely as extreme diabetic Sotomayor grabs her third cupcake of the night

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#34968068)



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Date: February 27th, 2018 11:27 AM
Author: chestnut 180 deer antler bbw



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#35498013)



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Date: December 20th, 2017 3:16 PM
Author: indecent parlor dragon

"and as it turns out, the cupcakes that 'vanished' due to the 'ghost' were just stuck to the top of the box," she concluded after twenty minutes. "Okay, your argument time is up."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#34968141)



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Date: December 20th, 2017 3:16 PM
Author: Pearly slippery parlour

come on post the whole thing....

MS. WAGGONER: Certainly not all cakes

would be considered speech, but in the wedding

context, Mr. Phillips is painting on a blank

canvas. He is creating a painting on that

canvas that expresses messages, and including

words and symbols in those messages.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: You know, the

other night I had some people over and one of

them brought a box of cupcakes and one of the

cupcakes was smashed against the box. That was

the only cupcake not eaten.

Now, I suspect that one of the reasons

is the others were so much more attractive

whole. There is creation in serving food, in

creating any type of edible product.

People -- there are sandwich artists

now. There are people who create beauty in

what they make, but we still don't call it

expressive and entitled to First Amendment

protection.

MS. WAGGONER: No, but when we have

someone that is sketching and sculpting and

hand designing something, that is creating a

temporary sculpture that serves as the

centerpiece of what they believe to be a

religious wedding celebration, that cake

expresses a message.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#34968145)



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Date: December 20th, 2017 3:03 PM
Author: concupiscible messiness filthpig



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#34968008)



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Date: December 20th, 2017 3:17 PM
Author: Light demanding market

MS. WAGGONER: It's not just about what the individual thinks they are communicating. This Court also routinely makes that inquiry in all kinds of situations in all free-speech cases.

Second, though, the Hurley framework provides a framework for this Court to make those decisions and to protect individuals. The way that it does that is it asks: Is the individual who's being compelled to speak objecting to the message that is contained in that speech or the person? And that's usually a very obvious inquiry. If it's connected -­

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Would. You. Stop.

Would that belief that expresses speech trump public accommodation laws against discrimination or protecting customers from race? Yes or no.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2017/16-111_f314.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#34968156)



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Date: December 20th, 2017 3:19 PM
Author: indecent parlor dragon

I'm sure he said it's not implicated or whatever, but the answer is plainly "yes."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#34968165)



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Date: December 20th, 2017 3:19 PM
Author: Light demanding market

JUSTICE ALITO: One thing that's disturbing about the record here, in addition to the statement made, the statement that Justice Kennedy read, which was not disavowed at the time by any other member of the Commission, is what appears to be a practice of discriminatory treatment based on viewpoint.

The -- the Commission had before it the example of three complaints filed by an individual whose creed includes the traditional Judeo-Christian opposition to same-sex marriage, and he requested cakes that expressed that point of view, and those -- there were bakers who said no, we won't do that because it is offensive.

And the Commission said: That's okay. It's okay for a baker who supports same-sex marriage to refuse to create a cake with a message that is opposed to same-sex marriage. But when the tables are turned and you have the baker who opposes same-sex marriage, that baker may be compelled to create a cake that expresses approval of same-sex marriage.

MR. YARGER: Justice Alito -­

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Counselor, in that case -­

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Maybe you could answer -- maybe you could Justice Alito's question.

MR. YARGER: Yes, Mr. Chief Justice.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2017/16-111_f314.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#34968175)



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Date: December 20th, 2017 3:22 PM
Author: indecent parlor dragon

One day CJ Roberts is just going to come out and say "shut the fuck up you stupid AA bitch, we'd like to consider actually germane arguments for a bit."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#34968208)



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Date: July 11th, 2018 11:03 AM
Author: irate mad-dog skullcap institution

Jfc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#36404510)



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Date: January 8th, 2018 12:50 AM
Author: amber sanctuary

Sotomayor wrote a stupid concurrence in a sentencing case that no one agreed with and now it's the subject of a case that SCOTUS recently granted cert. Lol at this question presented:

"2. Whether, under Marks, the lower courts are bound by the four-Justice plurality opinion in Freeman, or, instead, by Justice Sotomayor’s separate concurring opinion with which all eight other Justices disagreed."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#35106981)



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Date: June 5th, 2018 10:46 AM
Author: irate mad-dog skullcap institution

Lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#36186883)



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Date: January 17th, 2018 8:48 PM
Author: Brass rough-skinned church building

in a case where the lawyer admitted the client's guilt over the client's objection, Soto gets completely sidetracked on a hypo about perjured testimony that isn't germane so the lawyer and the court have to get the argument back on track.

JUSTICE ALITO: Mr. Waxman, let me -­

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Mr. Waxman, this

sounds like a -- my ethics class in law school,

and this very hypothetical of what do you do

with a lying client?

And it was my understanding that every

ethics rule requires the lawyer to put the

client on the stand but not assist the client

in telling the lie by -- you can put him on the

stand and say tell your story. And if the

judge or someone objects that your -- that this

person's rambling on, you say to the judge: I

cannot ask questions. My client has directed

me to put him or her on the stand.

People can walk themselves into jail.

They can walk themselves, regrettably, into the

gas chamber. But they have a right to tell

their story.

MR. WAXMAN: They have -- they have

the same -- I mean, Your Honor's understanding,

this is not a question of ethics rules -­

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Absolutely not.

MR. WAXMAN: -- about perjured

testimony or anything.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: But the question

MR. WAXMAN: Your Honor's

understanding is correct as to -­

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: So let me find -­

MR. WAXMAN: -- the vast majority of

jurisdictions.

JUSTICE ALITO: Well, could I ask you

about -­

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: May I ask -- may I

just -­

JUSTICE ALITO: Mr. Waxman, could I

ask you about, because I want to understand

where the -- the line is here.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2017/16-8255_7l48.pdf



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#35179663)



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Date: January 17th, 2018 8:52 PM
Author: amber sanctuary

The frustration in Alito's voice jumps off the page

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#35179702)



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Date: January 18th, 2018 9:13 AM
Author: Brass rough-skinned church building



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#35182051)



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Date: February 26th, 2018 1:30 PM
Author: Light demanding market

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: It's not going to change whether the union asks for it or the employees come -- what you're now saying is if the employees came into an auditorium at a business site of the state and every one of them got up and said, I want higher wages, the scale of that demand makes it protected by the First Amendment? It's still a work-related demand.

MR. MESSENGER: Well, in that hypothetical, it would arguably be a matter of public concern if there was a stage-in, you know, at a public auditorium in which employees stood up.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Well, let's -let's not -- don't put in facts.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2017/16-1466_gebh.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#35491087)



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Date: February 26th, 2018 1:33 PM
Author: Light demanding market

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: -- Breyer said, every single decision affects the public fisc. Every time you lose something, you -- the public fisc is affected. You are talking -

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Care to comment?

MR. MESSENGER: Again, to go back, I think it's the scale that makes the distinction, Your Honor.

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Thank you, counsel. The case is submitted.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2017/16-1466_gebh.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#35491111)



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Date: February 27th, 2018 11:25 AM
Author: amber sanctuary

Roberts FINALLY let Sotomayor write a majority opinion...for a 9-0 decision about bankruptcy law.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#35498002)



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Date: March 21st, 2018 6:58 PM
Author: beady-eyed narrow-minded church national security agency

*Sotomayor hits send*

*notices typo in first line*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#35655922)



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Date: February 27th, 2018 7:50 PM
Author: Light demanding market

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: I -- I'm sorry, I'm -- I'm now -- I guess my imagination is running wild.

(Laughter.)

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: How -- how does -­ who tells the robot what to do and what does the robot do?

MR. ROSENKRANZ: A human being in, let's say, Redmond tells the robot -- it sends the robot instructions. And, by the way, the computer scientists' amicus brief spells this out in great detail.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Okay.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2017/17-2_j4ek.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#35501557)



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Date: June 5th, 2018 10:45 AM
Author: irate mad-dog skullcap institution

Lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#36186874)



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Date: March 28th, 2018 9:02 PM
Author: beady-eyed narrow-minded church national security agency

"Not surprisingly, Sotomayor was first out of the gate at argument . . . This exchange lasted several minutes, with Sotomayor asking the first five questions of the morning. But just as the argument was veering into the weeds of statutory construction, Chief Justice John Roberts steered it back . . ."

http://www.scotusblog.com/2018/03/argument-analysis-we-know-how-to-get-to-five-justices-debate-precedent-in-the-absence-of-a-majority-opinion/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#35712874)



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Date: May 2nd, 2018 3:37 PM
Author: concupiscible messiness filthpig



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Date: June 5th, 2018 9:50 AM
Author: Dull infuriating stead



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#36186548)



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Date: June 26th, 2018 8:55 PM
Author: amber sanctuary



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#36315192)



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Date: June 27th, 2018 3:17 PM
Author: Glassy Corner



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#36320957)



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Date: August 5th, 2018 2:36 PM
Author: Stirring sinister gas station

This has now been empirically confirmed: https://empiricalscotus.com/2018/08/01/a-little-change/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#36557704)



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Date: August 5th, 2018 2:42 PM
Author: costumed cuck

lmao wow

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#36557721)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 11:40 AM
Author: curious duck-like center



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#36824893)



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Date: March 28th, 2019 2:56 PM
Author: carmine embarrassed to the bone therapy degenerate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#38005462)



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Date: March 28th, 2019 3:03 PM
Author: Hyperventilating wine forum wrinkle

jeez, wow

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#38005480)



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Date: September 17th, 2018 11:38 AM
Author: Seedy tank



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#36824882)



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Date: October 1st, 2018 3:09 PM
Author: amber sanctuary

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: As I read the record, there were suggestions by some of the scientists that what -- what you admitted to Justice Kagan a little while ago, minimal work, this species could survive, albeit not robustly, but it could survive.

MR. BISHOP: No.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Wouldn't that be enough?

MR. BISHOP: No, that's just not what the administrative record shows. All right. The -­

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Well, I don't want to argue the record now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#36933884)



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Date: October 1st, 2018 3:15 PM
Author: Offensive black sneaky criminal

jesus, that sentence is rough.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#36933914)



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Date: October 9th, 2018 3:52 PM
Author: Glassy Corner



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#36992193)



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Date: October 9th, 2018 3:55 PM
Author: irate mad-dog skullcap institution

Lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#36992211)



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Date: March 28th, 2019 3:18 PM
Author: hyperactive titillating business firm regret

wow

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#38005542)



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Date: March 28th, 2019 2:51 PM
Author: amber sanctuary

Was reading a recent transcript and Soto had a two-page long "question." LJL

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#38005427)



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Date: April 15th, 2019 8:09 PM
Author: Light demanding market

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: You answered --you answered discretion, but you don't answer why. Aren't we rewarding you -- rewarding you for not raising it adequately below, rewarding you for mentioning it in two sentences in your cert petition and not asking us to take it as a separate question presented? Where should we draw the line as to when we stop rewarding counsel for changing or moving the ball on cert grounds?

MR. GARRE: Well, there was no strategic gamesmanship here, Justice Sotomayor. We -- the -- the broader argument, as even my friend concedes, is fairly included within the question presented. You look at page 20 of our cert petition, it was very explicitly raised --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: You're not dealing with what I just asked, which is --

MR. GARRE: The -- the broader issue is this Court should --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: -- you could write almost any question and throw the kitchen sink if you choose. The question is -- you didn't raise it as a separate part of your cert petition; you didn't raise it below -- why should we reward you?

MR. GARRE: Okay. First of all, we did argue it in our cert petition. But -- but, as to your broader question, Justice Sotomayor, you should do just as you did in the Central Bank case in order to provide for the intelligent resolution of this question. Whether or not --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: I wasn't here. I might have taken a different position. Why --

MR. GARRE: Well, and -- and the dissenters obviously did.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Why should we reward --

MR. GARRE: And the reason is, is because this is an issue that is interdependent with the question of whether or not there could be inferred private right of action for negligence. It would be silly for this Court to say there can be inferred right for negligence, but -- but the -- but everybody would recognize, I think, that there is no --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: That -- that's what the SE -- that's what the government says, that there is.

MR. GARRE: Well, the government says there's no private right of action at all. The courts below agree with that.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: No, no, no, no, they say that the statute involves negligence. So we can find that it involves negligence and leave for another day whether there's a private cause of action or the right only belongs to the SE -- to the SEC.

MR. GARRE: I think where I would take issue with that, Justice Sotomayor, is -- is the government, in the first part of the government's brief, I understand addressed the question of what would be the standard in an express action brought by the SEC. I don't really understand the government to be saying they think that in an implied private right of action, if it exists, you could have claims for negligence. They sort of artfully dodged that question and ultimately ground their brief on the broader position, which we very much agree with --

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: They'll let us know.

MR. GARRE: -- that there's simply no private right of action at all. And so I -- soI think, you know, again, to answer your question, we would take issue with the notion there was gamesmanship here. We -- we were not required to raise it at the panel stage when we were bound by the Ninth Circuit's precedent. We did flag it in our petition for rehearing.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2018/18-459_5ie6.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#38094240)



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Date: February 23rd, 2020 11:43 PM
Author: amber sanctuary



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#39641748)



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Date: March 11th, 2020 2:34 PM
Author: domesticated dilemma round eye

https://twitter.com/AndyGrewal/status/1237806423628750848

BREAKING: Supreme Court grants stay to let Trump administration keep enforcing rule that has forced 60,000 people to wait in Mexico while seeking asylum. Only Justice Sotomayor would have denied the Trump Admin a stay.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#39737740)



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Date: March 11th, 2020 2:36 PM
Author: Charcoal lascivious brethren

mexico has 8 corona cases, at this point theyre better off staying there. why does Sonia want mexicans to die?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#39737759)



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Date: September 26th, 2020 10:04 AM
Author: Greedy startled new version affirmative action



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#40990016)



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Date: November 26th, 2020 4:52 PM
Author: amber sanctuary

http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4698966&forum_id=2#41440326

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#41441675)



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Date: January 7th, 2022 7:02 PM
Author: amber sanctuary



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#43747609)



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Date: January 8th, 2022 3:51 PM
Author: multi-colored mustard set

"millions of cases" 2022 bump

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#43751177)



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Date: January 17th, 2022 10:48 AM
Author: Garnet tanning salon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#43797477)



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Date: October 4th, 2022 3:05 PM
Author: Bonkers water buffalo

Apparently KBJ giving her a run for her money with very long speeches to counsel about 14A

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#45278931)



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Date: October 31st, 2022 2:16 PM
Author: amber sanctuary



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#45415066)



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Date: November 1st, 2022 11:20 AM
Author: swashbuckling french chef

De jure / de facto.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#45418636)



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Date: November 1st, 2022 12:03 PM
Author: thriller location



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#45418820)



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Date: November 1st, 2022 1:24 PM
Author: Tan Theater Stage

https://twitter.com/RogerSeverino_/status/1587132428279336967

Sotomayor just mistook de jure (legal) segregation for de facto (in fact) segregation. Alito called her out on it and she doubled down! It's an elementary mistake no competent 1st yr law student would make.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#45419245)



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Date: November 2nd, 2022 6:49 PM
Author: Jet travel guidebook



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#45426778)



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Date: May 19th, 2023 10:49 AM
Author: Magical aggressive doctorate

great thread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#46330700)



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Date: May 23rd, 2023 11:39 PM
Author: costumed cuck

“edit: I regret this thread. posted it during a shitty edgy conservative phase in school. she is far from the worst justice.”

lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#46348129)



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Date: October 4th, 2023 11:34 AM
Author: Light demanding market



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#46883068)



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Date: February 8th, 2024 1:16 PM
Author: amber sanctuary

“Justice Sotomayor asked about if there were other ways a state might keep a candidate off the ballot.

'Are you setting up so that if some President runs for a third term, that a state can't disqualify him?' she asked, due to the 22nd Amendment's term limits on presidential tenure.

'Of course, they can disqualify him from the ballot because that is a qualification. That is categorical,' Mitchell responded.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#47380021)



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Date: May 30th, 2024 2:09 PM
Author: Light demanding market



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#47703923)



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Date: December 4th, 2024 10:36 AM
Author: lake house-broken whorehouse mood



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2160853&forum_id=2...id.#48409915)