LAKE FOREST PARK — We live, to read the recent dissents of Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in dark times.

The senior-most member of the U.S. Supreme Court’s liberal wing, Sotomayor has warned, with mounting urgency, of an executive branch, a presidency, that can violate constitutional rights at will, and of a judicial branch, her own court, that again and again gives its blessing.

“We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job,” Sotomayor wrote Monday in a case about immigration enforcement.

“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates,” she wrote earlier this summer. “I will not be complicit in so grave an attack on our system of law.”

“Ours is a government of laws, not men,” s

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