Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor slammed the racially insensitive comments of a federal prosecutor in a Texas drug case Monday, calling his words “an affront to the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection of the laws,” CNN reports. Sotomayor agreed with a majority on the court in declining to review the case, but still took the opportunity to issue a statement condemning the prosecutor’s words as well as the Justice Department’s reaction to them.
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