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 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said her conservative colleagues are risking the court's legitmacy with decisions affording President Donald Trump broad immunity and overturning longstanding precedents on other issues.

In her first public comments since Trump began his second term in the White House, Sotomayor told a Kentucky audience that the court has gone too far, too fast on a range of issues. She cited the Trump case during a lengthy response to a question about sagging public confidence in the court.

Sotomayor issued a stinging dissent in that case, and she didn't hold back Wednesday night in discussing public perceptions of the court following its historic 6-3 decision on the immunity question. The court’s conservative majority, with three justices appointed by Trump in his first term, ruled for the first time that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution.

If we as a court go so much further ahead of people, our legitimacy is going to be questioned," Sotomayor said during the event in Louisville. “I think the immunity case is one of those situations. I don’t think that Americans have accepted that anyone should be above the law in America. Our equality as people was the foundation of our society and of our constitution.”

In her dissent last year, which she read aloud in the courtroom, Sotomayor said the court's majority allowed a president to become a “king above the law” in its ruling that limited the scope of criminal charges against Trump for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol and efforts to overturn the election.

She renewed her objections while discussing the case to the Louisville audience.

“Our constitution itself has provisions not exempting the president from criminal activity after an impeachment,” she said. "So I had a hard time with the immunity case. And if we continue going in directions that the public is going to find hard to understand, we’re placing the court at risk.”

 An arrest has been made in connection with the death of Kansas City sports reporter Adan Manzano while he was in New Orleans to cover Super Bowl LIX.

Manzano, 27, was found dead in his hotel room in Kenner, Louisiana, on Wednesday. Thursday, the Kenner Police Department said that Danette Colbert of Slidell, Louisiana, had been arrested after she was found allegedly using Manzano’s credit card at multiple stores. She was also allegedly seen leaving his hotel room on surveillance footage.

From WWL:

The station also reported that the coroner’s office said there were “no obvious signs of trauma” as it investigates Manzano’s cause of death.

Manzano worked for Telemundo Kansas City. In a statement on Wednesday, the station lauded his professionalism and work ethic.

Manzano, according to Fox 4 in Kansas City, was originally from Mexico City. He moved to Topeka, Kansas, in 2018 and graduated from Kansas State. He’s been with Telemundo Kansas City since 2021 and was preparing to cover his third Super Bowl with the station.

Manzano was also covering the game for Tico Sports and was a member of their Spanish broadcast team.

Manzano is survived by his daughter, Eleanor. His wife, Ashleigh, was killed in a car crash last April, per Fox 4.

 Jordon Hudson is setting the record straight on her blinding red carpet bling.

On Friday, Feb. 7, Hudson, 24, shut down rumors that she was wearing one of her 72-year-old boyfriend Bill Belichick's eight Super Bowl rings at the NFL Honors awards show ahead of the 2025 Super Bowl in New Orleans on Thursday, Feb. 6.

Sharing a picture of the couple posted on the National Football League’s Instagram page, Hudson clarified that she was wearing her BSU Cheerleading National Championship ring.

“Bill Belichick and Jordon Hudson on the red carpet rocking Bill’s Super Bowl rings 💍,” the NFL wrote in their caption alongside a photo of the couple and a second slide that zoomed into their rings.

Reposting on her Instagram Stories, the former cheerleader tagged BSU Cheerleading’s Instagram page. 

Hudson was a cheerleader during her time at Bridgewater State University. In 2021, she and her team were NCA Collegiate Champions. She also joined the East Celebrity Elite cheer squad after college and went on to the World Championships after competing in February 2024.

Posing on the red carpet on Thursday, Hudson and the former New England Patriots coach displayed a lot of bling on their hands.

In addition to her cheerleading National Championship ring, Hudson wore a pink diamond ring that sparked speculation that the pair might be engaged. Unlike her Championship ring, the star made no mention of the diamond on that finger on her Instagram Stories. Belichick also wore his Super Bowl rings on his fingers.

Hudson sported a super-risqué silver cutout dress that featured a sequin bra top and skirt with a thigh-high slit and long train.