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Sotomayor says she hopes Supreme Court overturns presidential immunity ruling
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said her colleagues have done some "crazy things" and that she hopes the court's 2024 decision granting former presidents broad criminal immunity will be overturned.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said on Saturday that she hopes the court's decision granting former presidents broad criminal immunity will be overturned, adding that her colleagues have done some "crazy things."
Speaking at a civics education event at George Washington's Mount Vernon estate in Virginia, part of a multi-day celebration of the country's 250th anniversary, the liberal justice also commented publicly for the first time on this week's midterm elections, in which Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress.
Sotomayor pointed to the high turnout in Tuesday's vote without directly addressing the results. "I tell people all the time, there's no excuse for not voting. There just isn't. Apathy is not acceptable."
Sotomayor, who sits on the board of iCivics, the civics education group founded by the late Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, said it would take "some hard work" for the country to get back on an "even keel." "There have been some systemic changes in my court's jurisprudence in many areas of law," she said. "We'll settle down, too. Not quite sure when. But we will."
She singled out the court's 6-3 ruling in 2024 that former presidents enjoy at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for their official acts. In her dissent at the time, Sotomayor wrote that the decision made the president "a king above the law."
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