Tempers are high' on Supreme Court after 'jarring' exchange: legal expert

[littlemissmartypants]

By Tom Boggioni
June 27, 2025 12:02 PM ET

Reacting to reporting that Justice Sonia Sotomayor took 15 minutes to read a scathing dissent with the court's conservative majority's ruling on birthright citizenship, legal analyst Melissa Murray pointed to a change in courtroom demeanor.

"I understand that Justice Sotomayor, still reading her dissent from the bench," MSNBC host Ana Cabrera prompted her guest. "We also have a dissent from Justice [Ketanji Brown] Jackson who writes in her dissent the court's decision to permit the executive to violate the Constitution with respect to anyone who has not yet sued is 'an existential threat to the rule of law.'"

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"Well, it seems very clear, Anna, that tempers are high on both sides, on both Justice Sotomayor and Justice Jackson dissenting; Justice Sotomayor choosing to read her dissent from the bench," Murray replied. "That's not something that always happens; they reserve that for the most forceful dissents in the cases that they think matter the most."

"But she is basically into a 15-minute read here, which is one of the longest public dissents that she has made. So she clearly thinks this is really important, and it is likely that we may see something from Justice Jackson as well," she continued. "And also the cross exchanges between the justices here show that tempers are short on this court. The clip that Julia earlier read from Justice Jackson, from Justice Barrett about Justice Jackson, it's a little short, a little jarring in its tone. It's not typically what you would expect from life tenured colleagues."
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https://www.rawstory.com/supreme-court-tempers-new-ruling/

[Ilsa]

1. Kick & Rec. nt

[returnee]

2. Preach, Sister!!! n/t

[Pacifist Patriot]

6. I fear you're absolutely correct.

[irisblue]

7. Why do you think either one of those men will resign?

Who is the Cannon you speak of? Aileen Cannon?

[OMGWTF]

9. I spell her name "A-loose"

[eppur_se_muova]

20. They're likely to die before they can retire. Or Turnip might *insist* they step down, so he can appoint a couple of ...

... young punks to hold the SCOTUS firmly to the right for decades to come.

If Turnip doesn't do it, look for GOP "think" tanks to suggest the idea.

[underpants]

27. Because they know they will be replaced by fellow RW nuts

They don’t have to hang on like many justices do waiting for another election and weighing the balance of the Senate.

[FBaggins]

28. They want to be replaced when there's a clear red senate majority and president

That might be next year if there looks like any chance of Democrats picking up the senate next November... but they may wait for 2027 or even 2028 since that doesn't appear likely at this point.

I don't see Cannon having a shot. Maybe an appelate seat toward the end of Trump's term... but even that seems unlikely.

[Initech]

4. Worst president ever. Worst SCOTUS ever. Worst GOP ever.

Fox News really sucks at running our government.

[Dan]

5. I don't know how, but we need term limits on the SCOTUS.

If Americans ever get control of our government again, there are a few things that should be done:

1. Put Trump on trial for his life.
2. Declare the GOP a terrorist organization.
3. Build a SC that protects and supports the Constitution.
4. Intern all of the Trump enablers.
5. Tax 100% all income over a billion dollars.
6. Tax Christian churches until they find Christ again.
7. Declare ICE a terrorist organization.
8. Remove the DOJ from under the Executive Branch.
9. Members of Congress should receive the average of the health care that
The citizens of their respective states receive.
10. POD casters that receive foreign money must be declared.
11. Criminalize using Viagra or any ED drug.
12. It would be nice to have a free press again, not one owned by the Oligarchs and one free from the profit motive.

[OMGWTF]

8. 13. A Truth and Reconciliation Commission will be formed to uncover

all of the fkery the Rethuglicans have done to us since 1981.

[slightlv]

15. Thats what I've been calling for for months!

[erronis]

11. One can dream, can't we? Oh, wait - that's grounds for extradition.

[GiqueCee]

21. I agree 100%...

... but churches should taxed, PERIOD. and number 9 should be turned upside down so that ALL Americans can receive the same health care that elected officials enjoy, AT TAXPAYER EXPENSE. WE pay for it, so WE should get it, too.
And this bullshit that anyone can be president has gone too far. WAY too far. Hair stylists must have more training for their jobs than political candidates, for chrissake.
Hillary Clinton was the most qualified candidate I've ever seen – and I'm OLD – but she had committed the crime of being a woman. As did Kamala Harris.

[COL Mustard]

22. Unfortunately that would take a Constitutional amendment

Extremely unlikely in the current political climate.

[brakester]

33. Probably this goes without saying....

but birthright citizenship IS in the constitution and can't be changed willy-nilly by a batch of unelected cold-hearted b$-turds.

Just saying....

[COL Mustard]

34. True...and yet...

We're at this point in time where maybe they will reinterpret the wording. It's all over at that point.

[CrispyQ]

26. First we need to get big money out of our electoral process.

As long as money equals speech, our voice will always be drowned out. Not sure how we go about that when the ones who can change it are part of the set who benefit from it.

[SonOfNebanaube]

29. not 11

In many cases it's used to reduce swelling of the prostate gland. It's bad enough that I have to worry about prostate cancer from my step father's exposure to Agent Orange.

[BComplex]

10. The fascist republican appointed justices HAVE GOT TO GO!!!!

This country needs to get these republican appointed justices OFF THE COURT.

[louis-t]

12. This Supreme court is the most activist, corrupt SC in history.

And there's not much guesswork involved.

[elleng]

13. J F C!!

[Johnny2X2X]

14. The dissents are chilling

Basically you have no constitutional rights unless you sue after they have been violated.

Trump’s literally a dictator now. The Constitution no longer protects you.

[SergeStorms]

16. The Heritage Foundation.....

has installed SC Justices who are tearing our heritage down to the ground. How ironic (or is that "moronic) .
The coup is complete.

[BattleRow]

17. And this ruling was the coup de grace.

[calimary]

18. That photo seems really, even shockingly, fitting.

There we see the Supreme Court, hidden behind some big somewhat-see-through screening. Awwwwww... ain't that convenient!

We can see through it, though, just like we can see through the rationalizations that come from this messed-up Court.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

19. I am glad that Justice Sotomayor read her dissent

[Hornedfrog2000]

23. The civil war will be waged in the streets

Can we quit pretending we live in a democracy before we cant even leave this shithole country anymore? This ends with blood, and its because they are trying to steal our freedom.

[Martin68]

24. Good for Sotomayor. She expresses exactly my reaction to the court's majority ruling that "permit(s) the executive to

violate the Constitution with respect to anyone who has not yet sued (because it) is 'an existential threat to the rule of law.'"

[wryter2000]

25. Just FYI

Melissa Murray and her family and her family went to my church when they lived in Oakland. Plus, she and her husband were my sister's students at Yale. Lovely people.

[dalton99a]

30. We are living under a dictatorship. It is delusional to pretend otherwise.

[hildegaard28]

31. Unless they

Plan on putting poison in the conservative justices food/drinks, their dissents will do no good.

[Bluetus]

32. This is LITERALLY the definition of both-siderism

Well done MSNBC

"Emotions are high on both sides"