Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has said she hopes the court will one day reverse its 2024 ruling granting presidents immunity for official acts, describing the decision as one of several she hopes are overturned in her lifetime.

“There’s some opinions that I hope in my lifetime will get overturned. The immunity case is one of them,” Sotomayor said on Saturday during a public discussion about civics education at the Washington Library at Mount Vernon in Virginia.

Sotomayor dissented from the July 2024 decision, alongside Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. The 6-3 ruling held that a president has immunity for official acts, but none for unofficial acts, and it upended the case against then-candidate Donald Trump over his attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat.

The justice, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, said she dissents often and hopes the court will revisit some of the “crazy things” it has done. She told the audience that the US rule of law is in a “rough patch” and that the country is at a “critical point in our history”.

Her remarks came days after the 2026 midterm elections, in which voters handed control of the House and the Senate to the Democrats. The change in the Senate means it will be harder for Trump, who nominated three justices during his first term, to secure confirmation for any further Supreme Court nominee if a vacancy arises.