Sonia Sotomayor

Affirmative Action policies have stirred debate about fairness of favoring certain groups over others. The most controversial part of these programs is their use of minimal levels of required minority participation. “Affirmative action policies are those in which an institution or organization actively engages in efforts to improve opportunities for historically excluded groups in American society”ncsl. Affirmative Action has left many people out in the cold, it allows people to be chosen by…

This is the case from North Carolina State. Maynor Javier Vasquez driving with a broken brake light on April 29, 2010 and Sergeant Darisse of the Surry County Sheriff's Department stopped the vehicle. As the officer approached the vehicle, he noticed that there was someone lay down on the back seat and he found out that the guy name is Nicholas Heien. The two men told him different stries and the officer asked permission to check on the vehicle. Heien agreed, and the officer found a bag…

prohibited many minorities from being accepted into a school to further their education. Minorities impact on other students can be great, as well as in the community. Minorities should be eligible to receive help for those who are disadvantaged. Sonia Sotomayor has stated, “One thing has not changed: to doubt the worth of minority students’ achievement when they succeed is really only to present another face of the prejudice that would deny them a chance to even try.” These issues really need…

government’s argument that “there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in a person’s movement on public thoroughfares and emphasized that the Fourth Amendment provided some protection for trespass onto personal property.” In addition, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a concurring opinion. Justice Samuel Alito also wrote a concurring and later joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, and Elena Kagan. If I were on the court, I would rule the same. The Government argued that it was…

In American History there have been many significant people like Franklin D. Roosevelt to Barack Obama who have fought for the better tomorrow of the United States of America and have left a great legacy from their political achievements that have developed in the United States from the 20th century to the present. To begin with Earl Warren, an American jurist and politician was appointed to be the 14th Chief Justice of the United States from the 1950’s-1960’s. The significance in this was that…

Is the Fourth Amendment violated by police action of remotely accessing a GPS or a vehicle’s tracking capabilities without a warrant or the probable cause necessary for the acquiring thereof, therefore necessitating Senator Snowy’s support of Taylor Thomas’s bill; and what would be the implications on the future of Fourth Amendment law if Senator Snowy declined to support the bill and thusly permitted the dubious practices to persist indefinitely? SHORT ANSWER Notwithstanding the current…

rejected the government's argument that there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in a person's movement on public thoroughfares and emphasized that the Fourth Amendment provided some protection for trespass onto personal property. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a concurring opinion, agreeing that the government had obtained information by usurping Jones' property and by invading his privacy. However, she further reasoned that the Fourth Amendment was not only concerned with trespasses onto…

said,” Absent reasonable suspicion, police extension of a traffic stop in order to conduct a dog sniff violates the Constitution’s shield against unreasonable seizures.” Chief Justice John Roberts, and Justices Antonin Scalia, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan all agreed with Justice Ginsburg. The police officer said that the short delay was caused by the officer that he called for backup to help him with the dog when they released it to search the…

to create my own education system. “Educate and inform the whole mass of people”. I would start off with this idea from Thomas Jefferson in my education system. Unlike him thought, I would really mean, the whole mass of people. I agree with Sonia Sotomayor when she stated that, “Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society”. I would want to desegregate schools back to how they’re supposed to be. I think everyone benefits from a more diverse class room and I think that…

Project at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. ). John G. Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy, and Samuel A. Alito, were the people who voted in favor of Citizens United, whereas Justice Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, and Sonia Sotomayor voted against Citizens…