The voice of the court's liberal minority had a fiery view on a pro-Trump ICE ruling, saying she would not stand idly by while constitutional freedoms are lost.

The U.S. Supreme Court justice, part of the court’s three-member liberal bloc, urged university students in attendance not to "walk away from the fight."

Justice Sonia Sotomayor condemned the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to stay the execution of Anthony Boyd, who was put to death in Alabama using nitrogen gas, calling it "torturous suffocation" and a violation of the Eighth Amendment's guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says improved civic education across the country would help people make better decisions

The U.S. Supreme Court justice urged the many students in attendance to take risks and fight for what they believe in. "We need you," she said.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was in Vermont Monday and joined University of Vermont President Marlene Tromp for an evening conversation about her life and work on the nation’s high court.

At the high court, the Republican-appointed majority declined to extend him what Sotomayor called “the barest form of mercy”: to die by that alternative firing squad method, which, she wrote, “would kill him in seconds, rather than by a torturous suffocation lasting up to 4 minutes.”