The Judge of the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, said that the presidents have historically obeyed the judicial decisions with a few exceptions, and advocated that the Court acts cautiously to maintain a system of weights and counterweights, but without referring Direct to the efforts of President Donald Trump for testing the limits of the Executive Power.
“In general, we have been a country that has understood that the rule of law has helped us maintain our democracy,” he said on Tuesday. “But it is also because the Court has proceeded with caution and has proceeded to understand that it has to do it slowly.”
Sotomayor, one of the few court liberals, did not mention Trump. But their comments occur at a time when the main officials of the Trump administration are questioning the authority of the Judiciary to stop the changes and arbitrariness released during the last weeks.
The resistance of the courts responds to Trump’s efforts for dismantling government agencies and eliminating large sectors of the Federal Labor Force.
The judges, meanwhile, have prevented Trump from continuing with mass federal renunciations and implementing an executive order that seeks to end citizens by birth right for the children of undocumented immigrants.
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Sotomayor talked about the case of 1803 Marbury v. Madison, saying that he grants the last word to the courts on the constitutionality of the laws.
The judge, nominated for the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama in 2009, said that there have been some exceptions of presidents that do not respect the decisions of the Court.
President Andrew Jackson, for example, ignored a decision of the 1832 Supreme Court that was put next to the Cherokees Indians against them to be expelled by force from their lands and federal troops were sent to evict them.
Last week, Sotomayor had already criticized how the court led by conservatives has annulled important precedents. On Tuesday, Sotomayor told an audience in Miami that, in doing so, people feel uncomfortable with the court.
The Court annulled Roe v. Wade in 2022, ending the national protections for the right to abortion, a ruling that Trump has attributed merit after appointing three conservative judges in their first mandate.
The court also annulled affirmative action in university admissions. Sotomayor said he was in favor of the court to act more slowly. “And if they will undo a precedent, do it in small measures. Let society assimilate the steps, ”he said.
