Sotomayor warns against challenging judicial independence as Trump attacks legal system

Sotomayor warns against challenging judicial independence as Trump attacks legal system


Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, one of three liberal justices on the court, warned against upending the legal system in a talk Friday in Washington, D.C.

President Donald Trump and other Republicans have challenged aspects of the legal system by calling for judges who impede on his agenda to be impeached and pushing for the end of nationwide injunctions.

“One of the things that’s troubling so many right now is many of the standards that are being changed right now were norms that governed officials into what was right and wrong,” Sotomayor said during an appearance at Georgetown University Law Center. “Once norms are broken, then you’re shaking some of the foundation of the rule of law.”

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Sotomayor did not mention Trump by name but slammed

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