Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissents are being heralded as a kind of rulebook to be used against a "racist" criminal justice system.

The New York Times' Adam Liptak said of the justice's eight dissents written this term, "Read together, they are a remarkable body of work from an increasingly skeptical student of the criminal justice system, one who has concluded that it is clouded by arrogance and machismo and warped by bad faith and racism."

As if it was a bad thing, Liptak condemned the only justice with more dissents, Clarence Thomas, for having an agenda, one that strictly follows the Constitution. Liptak praised Sotomayor for having "concerns [that] are more contemporary and more focused," as if that's a good thing.

From her first dissent to her last, Sotomayor condemned the "rogue conduct" of officers who elicit a "'shoot first, think later' approach to policing." Her writings could easily be read as if it were directly from a Black Lives Matter handbook, warning that "people of color are disproportionate victims" of police scrutiny.

Liptak praised Sotomayor for showing "real-world experience rooted in the Black Lives Matter movement."

In many dissents, Sotomayor quoted fixtures of black activism, including Ta-Nehisi Coates and W.E.B. Du Bois. It would be hard to distinguish their words from what she wrote in one case:

For generations, black and brown parents have given their children "the talk" — instructing them never to run down the street; always keep your hands where they can be seen; do not even think of talking back to a stranger — all out of fear of how an officer with a gun will react to them.

When the Supreme Court reversed a charge of excessive force in one case this year, Sotomayor, alone, alleged the court was supporting the "culture" of police brutality.