Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke of the authority of the courts and the limits of the executive branch’s power Tuesday as experts fear a looming constitutional crisis, NBC News reported. “Our founders were hellbent on ensuring that we didn’t have a monarchy and the first way they thought of that was to give Congress the power of the

The Supreme Court majority built by Donald Trump could uphold efforts to expand presidential authority based on the legal principle of unitary executive theory.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Tuesday that court decisions “stand whether one particular person chooses to abide by them or not,” days after two of President Donald Trump’s top lieutenants attacked rulings that halted some of his contentious executive orders.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor hinted on Tuesday that the Trump administration should abide by the separation of powers set out in the US constitution.