Watch as Whoopi Goldberg asks Supreme Court justice how to conduct basic internet search

“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg asked Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday to explain how somebody can find a court decision on the internet.

Goldberg told Sotomayor that many Americans do not know where to find Supreme Court rulings online or think they are not available to the public. Sotomayor then explained how anyone can find a ruling through a basic internet search.

“Where can people find these dissents? Because I think people always think they’re not available to regular folks. Is there a place?” Goldberg asked.

“Online,” Sotomayor said. “And you search online the way you search anything. The Supreme Court’s decision yesterday, you can start there. Sotomayor dissent yesterday. Noem, that’s one of the names in the case. The Noem Supreme Court decision. Search bar, it will pop right up. The Supreme Court website, supremecourt.gov, has all of our decisions immediately when they’re issued. So you don’t even have to wait.”

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The Supreme Court granted President Donald Trump’s administration’s request to remove restrictions on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in Los Angeles, put in place by Judge Maame E. Frimpong, who former President Joe Biden appointed to the judiciary in 2021. Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in a concurring opinion that the high court “does not set immigration policy or decide enforcement priorities.”

In her dissent, Sotomayor wrote that ICE agents would disproportionately target Latinos and Spanish-speaking labor workers. Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson also dissented.

Frimpong ordered ICE agents not to consider race or ethnicity, speaking Spanish or working as a day laborer as factors for arresting illegal immigrants. The administration argued the judge should not be able to “micromanage” immigration enforcement, especially when one in every ten individuals in the area is an illegal immigrant.

Sotomayor, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, has written several dissents in a variety of cases, including those revolving around Trump’s policies. She wrote a scathing dissent on June 27 in response to the justices’ ending lower courts’ abilities to issue nationwide injunctions, stating that the majority’s ruling proved that the “rule of law is not a given” in the U.S.

The liberal justice also argued in April that allowing the administration to use wartime authority to deport members of Tren de Agua “poses an extraordinary threat to the rule of law.”

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