Sotomayor voices 'sadness' in reading gender-affirming care dissent 

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court’s most senior liberal justice, read her dissent aloud from the bench Wednesday to stress her forceful disagreement with the court effectively greenlighting gender-affirming care bans across the country.

The justices reserve reading their dissents aloud for only a handful of cases, and Sotomayor was the first this term to do so. She spoke for nearly 15 minutes.

“The majority subjects a law that plainly discriminates on the basis of...