Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Appearances
The Daily
The Supreme Court Takes On Transgender Care for Minors
I'm sorry, Counselor. Every medical treatment has a risk. Even taking aspirin.
The Daily
The Supreme Court Takes On Transgender Care for Minors
There is always going to be a percentage of the population under any medical treatment that's going to suffer a harm. So the question in my mind is not... Do policymakers decide whether one person's life is more valuable?
The Daily
The Supreme Court Takes On Transgender Care for Minors
But the other is... Can you stop one sex from the other? one person of one sex from another sex, from receiving that benefit.
The Daily
The Supreme Court Takes On Transgender Care for Minors
That's the sex-based difference. The medical condition is the same. We don't agree. But you're saying one sex is getting it and the other is not.
The Daily
The Supreme Court Takes On Transgender Care for Minors
Some children suffer incredibly with gender dysphoria, don't they?
The Daily
The Supreme Court Takes On Transgender Care for Minors
One of the petitioners in this case described throwing up every day. going almost mute because of their inability to speak in a voice that they could live with. These are physically challenging situations as well, too.
The Daily
Birthright Citizenship Reaches The Supreme Court
So 23 states are going to have babies who were born somewhere else without a birth certificate that you're now, if they move into your state, going to have to do checking on.
The Daily
Birthright Citizenship Reaches The Supreme Court
The president is violating not just one, but by my count, four established Supreme Court precedents.
The Daily
Birthright Citizenship Reaches The Supreme Court
So when a new president orders that because there's so much gun violence going on in the country, I have the right to take away the guns from everyone. And he sends out the military orders. to seize everyone's guns. We and the courts have to sit back and wait until every plaintiff whose gun is taken comes into court.