Justice Sonia Sotomayor through the formal group {photograph} on the Supreme Court on Oct. 7, 2022.

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor through the formal group {photograph} on the Supreme Court on Oct. 7, 2022.

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor learn an extended and impassioned dissent from the bench Friday in a case the place a majority of justices sided with a Colorado internet designer who refused to create web sites for same-sex weddings.

Sotomayor’s prolonged dissent was a dramatic scene throughout a courtroom time period the place oral dissents have been uncommon.

In her dissent to Justice Neil Gorsuch’s majority opinion, Sotomayor wrote that “Today, the Court, for the first time in its history, grants a business open to the public a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of a protected class.”

She famous that right now’s ruling comes amid a “backlash to the movement for liberty and equality for gender and sexual minorities.”

“New forms of inclusion have been met with reactionary exclusion,” she mentioned. “This is heartbreaking. Sadly, it is also familiar. When the civil rights and women’s rights movements sought equality in public life, some public establishments refused. Some even claimed, based on sincere religious beliefs, constitutional rights to discriminate. The brave Justices who once sat on this Court decisively rejected those claims.”

Read her dissent:

You can read the full opinion here.