The judge of the Liberal Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, said Tuesday that the courts must use their “soft power” to persuade people to fulfill decisions on contentious issues.
He made the comments in an event at the Miami Dade College in Florida following a growing choir among some allies of President Donald Trump, including vice president JD Vance, who has rejected the recent judicial decisions that have hindered some of his aggressive executives. orders
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Criticism has caused concern that the administration could challenge certain judicial decisions that disagree, and some describe the nation as on the edge of a constitutional crisis.
“Judicial decisions are found, if a particular person chooses to fulfill them or not,” said Sotomayor when asked about the importance of separation of powers from the Constitution. “It does not change the base that is still a court order that someone respects at some point.”
Sotomayor, one of the three liberals in the court of conservative majority, said he would not be “getting too much in this” when he was interrogated on the subject, and emphasized that he was speaking widely. She did not mention Trump by name.
She said that the Supreme Court in particular has to “make society clear, the presidents, the Congress, the people who are doing things based on the law and the Constitution, since we interpret it fairly.”
In that sense, the power of the court is “the power of reason, and that is what most people would consider a soft power, but it is the most powerful of everything,” he said.
In response to another question, Sotomayor touched the issue again when he mentioned occasions when the authority of the court has been questioned in the past and the rule of law has been presented threatened.
“We have had moments in which it has been proven, but in general, we have been a country that has understood that the rule of law has helped us maintain our democracy, but it is also because the court has proceeded with caution,” he said.
He was participating in a question and answers session organized by Maribel Pérez Wadsworth, president of the Knight Foundation, a non -profit organization that supports journalism and the arts.
