Justice Sonia Sotomayor is a Supreme Court Justice. In 2018, she wrote a scathing dissenting opinion in Trump v. Hawaii, the court case that upheld the so-called Muslim travel ban. In her dissent, Justice Sotomayor noted that, although the Supreme Court was doing a great thing by finally invalidating the Court’s earlier decision in Korematsu (which upheld Executive Order 9066), Trump v. Hawaii used the same racist, flawed logic that Korematsu did.
Get the entire They Called Us Enemy LitChart as a printable PDF.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor Character Timeline in They Called Us Enemy
The timeline below shows where the character Justice Sonia Sotomayor appears in They Called Us Enemy. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
They Called Us Enemy
...of Trump v. Hawaii, many Muslims are denied entry to the U.S. In her dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor acknowledges that overruling Korematsu is an important step. But she also insists that the court’s...
(full context)
