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Sonia Sotomayor hopes court will overturn presidential immunity ruling

Justice Sotomayor also described the country as experiencing a 'rough patch' regarding the rule of law.

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Sonia Sotomayor hopes court will overturn presidential immunity ruling

What this story says

  • Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor hopes the court will overturn its 2024 ruling on presidential immunity.
  • She made these remarks at George Washington's Mount Vernon estate.
  • Sotomayor described the court's recent actions as 'crazy things', later clarifying she was joking but then stating 'maybe not'.
  • She also stated that the country is experiencing a 'rough patch' regarding the rule of law and civic discourse.

Who covered it

Left 67%(4)Centre 33%(2)Right 0%(0)

Percentages are shares of the 6 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 2 of the 8 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

60/100

Craft

65/100

Hype

45/100

8 sources · methodology

Thin on the right so far

None of the 6 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated right.

This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has stated she hopes the court will overturn its 2024 decision concerning presidential immunity. She made these comments during an appearance at George Washington's Mount Vernon estate in Virginia. The ruling in question held that a president cannot be prosecuted for many acts tied to their official duties. Sotomayor, who dissented from that decision along with the court's two other liberal justices, identified it as one she would like to see reversed.

During her remarks, Sotomayor also referred to some of the court's recent actions as 'crazy things'. She initially stated she was joking but then added, 'maybe not'. She further described the United States as being in a 'rough patch' concerning the rule of law and civic discourse, characterising the challenges as numerous and the moment as critical.

Coverage disagreements

The IBTimes UK full report states that Sotomayor made her remarks on Saturday, according to Politico, which covered her comments. Reuters, The Hill, and USA Today digests also state she made comments on Saturday. Politico's digest states she made remarks on Saturday. Raw Story's digest states she made remarks this weekend. USA Herald's digest states she made remarks on November 7, 2026. UA.NEWS' digest does not specify a date for her remarks.

What the coverage left out

None of the right-rated outlets ran this story.

Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 3 times, most recently on 8 Nov 2026, 16:30, and will add the sides that appear.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

4 rated outlets

  • The left-rated reports led on Justice Sotomayor's hope that the Supreme Court would overturn its 2024 ruling on presidential immunity. IBTimes UK's full report quoted her saying, 'There are some opinions that I hope in my lifetime will get overturned. The immunity case is one of them.' Raw Story and USA Today digests highlighted her description of the court's recent actions as 'crazy things'. Politico's digest focused on her view that the US is in a 'rough patch' for the rule of law. All left-rated digests mentioned her comments about the immunity ruling.

Centre

2 rated outlets

  • The centre-rated reports focused on Justice Sotomayor's use of the phrase 'crazy things' in reference to the Supreme Court's actions. A Reuters digest stated she hopes the court will reverse some of the "crazy things" it's done, including the 2024 decision on presidential immunity. The Hill digest also noted her comment about her colleagues having done some 'crazy things' and her hope that the presidential immunity decision would be overturned.

Right

0 rated outlets

No outlet rated right has run this story so far. We are still checking, and will say plainly if that does not change.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Sonia Sotomayor hopes court will overturn presidential immunity ruling?
Of the 6 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 67% are rated left, 33% are rated centre, 0% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 8. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Sonia Sotomayor hopes court will overturn presidential immunity ruling left or right?
Too few of the outlets on this story carry a published leaning rating to say. 6 of them do, and this site does not characterise a field under 12: at that size one newsroom filing moves the share by ten points. The percentages above are the count as it stands.
Is the coverage of Sonia Sotomayor hopes court will overturn presidential immunity ruling biased?
Sonia Sotomayor hopes court will overturn presidential immunity ruling is one event reported by 8 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Sonia Sotomayor hopes court will overturn presidential immunity ruling?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated right had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Sonia Sotomayor hopes court will overturn presidential immunity ruling?
8 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
What did Justice Sotomayor say about the Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling?
Justice Sonia Sotomayor expressed a hope that the Supreme Court would overturn its 2024 ruling that grants presidents immunity for official actions. She identified this ruling as one she would like to see reversed in her lifetime.
Where did Justice Sotomayor make these remarks?
Justice Sotomayor made these remarks at George Washington's Mount Vernon estate in Virginia. She was speaking at a conference examining the past and future of American democracy.
What did Sotomayor mean by 'crazy things'?
Justice Sotomayor described some of the court's recent actions as 'crazy things'. She initially stated she was joking but then qualified her remark by saying 'maybe not', indicating a more serious sentiment about the court's decisions.

Read it at the source

8 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.

Left

4

Centre

2

Right

0

No outlet in this group ran the story.

Not rated

2

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