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The Supreme Court building is seen on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Justice Sonia Sotomayor says lawyers should stand up and fight amid turmoil in nation’s legal system

Justice Sonia Sotomayor says lawyers should stand up and fight in battles faced by the nation’s legal system. Her remarks come amid attacks on federal judges and President Donald Trump’s targeting of elite law firms in executive orders.
 
Chief Justice John Roberts speaks during a fireside chat at the 125th anniversary celebration of the United States District court for the Western District of New York, Wednesday, May 7, 2025, in Buffalo, N.Y. (AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes)

Chief Justice Roberts says judicial independence is key to checking Congress and the president

 
The Department of Justice seal is seen during a news conference Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)

Trump administration asks judge to toss suit restricting access to abortion medication

 
The Supreme Court in Washington, June 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

US Supreme Court resolves pay fight in favor of federal workers who also are military reservists

 
Supporters of charter schools rally outside of the Supreme Court on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Roberts might hold key Supreme Court vote over first publicly funded religious charter school

 

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The U.S Supreme Court is seen on Friday, June 14, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

The Supreme Court upholds the conviction of woman who challenged expert testimony in a drug case

 
Visitors pose for photographs outside the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday, June 18, 2024, in Washington. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

The Supreme Court upholds a tax on foreign income over a challenge backed by business interests

 
FILE - Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., smiles while speaking during an event at AFSCME Council 13 offices, March 14, 2024, in Harrisburg, Pa. Abortion rights, suddenly a potent political force in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to leave such matters to the states, have found an unlikely champion in swing-state Pennsylvania. Casey, who will appear on the November ballot beneath President Joe Biden as they both seek reelection, has begun doing something he's never done before: attacking an opponent over abortion rights. (AP Photo/Marc Levy, File)

The fight for abortion rights gets an unlikely messenger in swing state Pennsylvania: Sen. Bob Casey

 
FILE - The guitar shaped hotel is seen at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino on Oct. 24, 2019, in Hollywood, Fla. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, June 17, 2024 refused to take up a case challenging an agreement that gave the Seminole Tribe exclusive rights to run sports wagers in Florida as well as casino gambling on its reservations, dealing a blow to the deal's opponents. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

US Supreme Court refuses to take up challenge to Florida’s online sports betting compact

 
FILE - Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. The Supreme Court on Thursday, June 13, 2024, unanimously preserved access to the medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year, in the court’s first abortion decision since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)

The Supreme Court’s ruling on mifepristone isn’t the last word on the abortion pill

 
FILE - A bump stock is displayed in Harrisonburg, Va., on March 15, 2019. The Supreme Court has struck down a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, a gun accessory that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on rapid-fire rifle bump stocks, reopening political fight

 

Mifepristone may still be available, but opponents say the fight is not over

 
FILE - Members of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait following the addition of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. Bottom row, from left, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, and Associate Justice Elena Kagan. Top row, from left, Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)

Justice Clarence Thomas took more trips paid for by donor Harlan Crow, Senate panel reveals

 

Unanimous Supreme Court preserves access to abortion medication, AP Explains

 
FILE - Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. The Supreme Court on Thursday, June 13, 2024, unanimously preserved access to the medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year, in the court’s first abortion decision since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)

Unanimous Supreme Court preserves access to widely used abortion medication

 
FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, June 6, 2024, in Phoenix. Trump on Monday, June 10, will address a Christian group that calls for abortion to be "eradicated entirely," as the presumptive Republican nominee again takes on an issue that Democrats want to make a focus of this year's presidential election. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri, File)

Donald Trump tells a group that calls for banning all abortions to stand up for ‘innocent life’

 
FILE - Members of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait following the addition of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. Bottom row, from left, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, and Associate Justice Elena Kagan. Top row, from left, Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)

Thomas acknowledges more travel paid for by Harlan Crow. Colleagues report six-figure book payments

 
FILE - Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a new group portrait, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. Roberts has declined an invitation to meet with Democratic senators to talk about Supreme Court ethics and the controversy over flags that flew outside homes owned by Justice Samuel Alito. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Roberts rejects Senate Democrats’ request to discuss Supreme Court ethics and Alito flag controversy

 
FILE - Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito pauses after swearing in Mark Esper as Secretary of Defense during a ceremony with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, July 23, 2019. Nine days after The New York Times reported about the political symbolism of an upside-down American flag that flew at U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's home, the Washington Post acknowledged May 25, 2024, that it had the same story more than three years ago and decided not to publish it. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

The Washington Post said it had the Alito flag story 3 years ago and chose not to publish

 
FILE - Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito pauses after swearing in Mark Esper as Secretary of Defense during a ceremony with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, July 23, 2019. A second flag of a type carried by rioters during the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was displayed outside a house owned by Alito according to a report published May 22, 2024, by The New York Times. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Democratic senators request meeting with Chief Justice Roberts over flags flown at Alito’s homes

 
FILE - Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr., left, and his wife Martha-Ann Alito, pay their respects at the casket of Reverend Billy Graham at the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, Feb. 28, 2018. Alito rejects calls to step aside from Supreme Court cases on Trump and Jan. 6. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Second flag carried by Jan. 6 rioters displayed outside house owned by Justice Alito, report says

 
Sherrie Cotterman stands for a portrait while in line at a campaign rally for former president Donald Trump in Vandalia, Ohio, on Saturday, March 16, 2024. Trump, who is coasting to a third Republican presidential nomination, continues to draw strong support from evangelicals and other conservative Christians. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

Jesus is their savior, Trump is their candidate. Ex-president’s backers say he shares faith, values

 
FILE - Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr., left, and his wife Martha-Ann Alito, pay their respects at the casket of Reverend Billy Graham at the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, Feb. 28, 2018. Alito rejects calls to step aside from Supreme Court cases on Trump and Jan. 6. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Upside-down flag at Justice Alito’s home another blow for Supreme Court under fire

 
FILE - Associate Justice Clarence Thomas poses for a photo at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. Thomas has told attendees at a judicial conference that he and his wife have faced "nastiness and lies" over the last several years. He also decried Washington, D.C., as a "hideous place." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Thomas says critics are pushing ‘nastiness’ and calls Washington a ‘hideous place’

 
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh makes air quotes as he answers questions during a judicial conference, Friday, May 10, 2024, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Justice Kavanaugh says unpopular rulings can later become ‘fabric of American constitutional law’

 
This cover image release by Harper shows "Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law" by Neil Gorsuch and Janie Nitze. (Harper via AP)

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch co-authors book on laws. ‘Over Ruled’ to be released Aug. 6

 

Abortion is still consuming US politics and courts 2 years after a Supreme Court draft was leaked

 
FILE - People protest about abortion, Friday, June 24, 2022, outside the Supreme Court in Washington. Two years after a leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion singled that the nation's abortion landscape was about to shift dramatically, the issue is still consuming the nation's courts, legislatures and political campaigns and changing the course of lives.(AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Abortion is still consuming US politics and courts 2 years after a Supreme Court draft was leaked

 

Supreme Court hears Trump immunity claim in election interference case

 
A demonstrator stands outside the Supreme Court as the justices prepare to hear arguments over whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution in a case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, on Capitol Hill Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

The Latest: Supreme Court arguments conclude in Trump immunity case

 
FILE - Abortion rights supporters gather outside the Capitol, Wednesday, April 17, 2024, in Phoenix. Arizona doctors could come to California and provide abortions for their patients under a new proposal announced Wednesday, April 24, 2024, by Gov. Gavin Newsom aimed at circumventing a state law that bans nearly all abortions in that state. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

US abortion battle rages on with moves to repeal Arizona ban and a Supreme Court case

 

Supreme Court considers when doctors can provide emergency abortions in states with strict bans

 

Dueling protests outside U.S. Supreme Court, which was considering emergency abortion issue

 

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