On Tuesday, Liberal Supreme Court judge warned that the quality of civil education education means that Americans may not know the difference between the president and the king.
Sotomayor is a lack of education on issues such as the rule of law, saying that the lack of sufficient number of people have an essential understanding of the president’s authority and the borders imposed by the constitution on that authority.
“Do we understand what is the difference between the king and the president?” She said at a civil conference held at New York Faculty of Law in Manhattan. “I think if people understand these things from the beginning, they will be more aware of what might be important in democracy.”
Sotomoor did not do Direct treatment of the transmitted political moment, with President Donald Trump adopting a strong use of the unilateral executive authority.
It was an opposition voice because the Supreme Court has many of these procedures, including reducing Trump’s size of federal agencies and shooting at officials whose Congress intends to be protected from political influence.
Sotomoor also opposed when the Supreme Court said last year that Trump had a wide immunity to his efforts to cancel the results of the 2020 elections at the end of his first term.
“In every use of the official authority, the president is now a king above the law,” Sotomior wrote in this opposition opinion, which was issued in July 2024.
By emphasizing the need to teach children around the government on Tuesday, Sotomior was martyred as polls and said she found that few young people support democracy.
Without it, “What remains?” I asked.
This does not mean that the American people should always accept that the laws on books should never change, indicating slavery and chapter as examples.
“The assumption that all laws are good not necessarily proposing a beginning. We have already seen, in our country, bad laws.”
Without identifying individuals, Sotomayor criticized legislators by law who propose laws that criminalize freedom of expression. The Trump administration is also launched in the speech it distorts, especially on the university campus.
“Every time I listen to a trained representative of lawyers, he says that we must criminalize freedom of expression in some way. I think myself that the College of Law has failed.”