"Some outlets interpreted Sotomayor's remarks as directly aimed at Pam Bondi, Stetson Law's most regrettable export, who declared the administration would use the Kirk killing as a pretext to crack down on "hate speech." But since Sotomayor said, "representative," she likely intended to cast a broader net in the direction of Capitol Hill. That said, the former Florida attorney general has made a career out of proving that a J.D. is not an inoculation against constitutional illiteracy, so the shoe fits."
"The New York Law School event follows her Stephen Colbert appearance, where the justice tried to extend charity to her colleagues over the shadow docket order authorizing the administration to use racial profiling to target people for looking Latino, speaking Spanish, and having a low-wage job. The cursed waltz of the Supreme Court is that you can call your colleagues democracy-shredding maniacs in an opinion, but in public, they're all expected to insist everyone's just doing their best."
A Supreme Court justice criticized lawyer-trained representatives who advocate criminalizing free speech. The justice contrasted public grandstanding that demands prosecutions with constitutional protections for speech. Some outlets interpreted the remark as aimed at a former Florida attorney general who suggested using a killing as a pretext to crack down on "hate speech." The justice had earlier tried to extend charity to colleagues after a shadow-docket order authorized racial profiling to target people who look Latino, speak Spanish, or hold low-wage jobs. The situation underscores tensions among media spectacle, political pressure, and judicial restraint.
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