Sonia Sotomayor apologizes for ‘hurtful’ public comments about Brett Kavanaugh on immigration

CNN ^ | 4/14/2026 | John Fritze

[sopo]

Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a highly unusual public apology to a colleague Wednesday, saying her criticism of Justice Brett Kavanaugh for his writing in an earlier immigration case was unfair.

“At a recent appearance at the University of Kansas School of Law, I referred to a disagreement with one of my colleagues in a prior case, but I made remarks that were inappropriate,” Sotomayor said in a statement. “I regret my hurtful comments. I have apologized to my colleague.”

Sotomayor’s statement followed remarks she made last week in Kansas in which she criticized Kavanaugh for his concurring opinion in a high-profile emergency immigration case dealing with ICE patrols — an exceedingly rare and personal comment directed at one justice by another.

---

TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: 2little2late; brettkavanaugh; kavanaugh; resignbeeotch; scotus; soniasotomayor; sotomayor; supremecourt; wiselatina

[dayglored]

> Thank You, but I’m not clicking on a link.

Likewise, especially if it's the NY Times. In any case I don't have an NYT subscription so I wouldn't have seen anything of the article except the first couple of lines, which likely didn't have Sotomayer's statement.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

The left needs to be exterminated. They’re worse than Muslims and illegals.

They are Amalekites. Look it up. A people MOST despised by God himself.

[sopo]

well nobody said she was sweet talking him

[Freedom4US]

Thanks.

Interesting her concern for wages and hourly workers doesn’t (somehow) extend to Americans whose pay stubs have stagnated since the 1970s, chiefly due to millions and millions of illegal migrants. Higher rents, increased Insurance premiums, far higher taxes, etc. Labor is subject to supply and demand as any other commodity. I’ll not suggest she’s stupid, she must know these things, or should know these things, so the alternative is worse.

[MikelTackNailer]

You posted a link to the New York Times. I've sworn to never give them a click if I can help it. This site, not yet defeated, may or may not do that while bypassing paywalls but at least there's a barrier between the reader and that producer of progressive propaganda:

https://removepaywalls.com/

Soto-my-AIR seems to believe that illegal aliens' hardships somehow grants them special consideration and exemption from U.S. law. With that outlook she couldn't properly serve a Traffic Court, so damn sure shouldn't be taking an actually qualified person's place on the Supreme Court.

[montag813]

What, exactly, did the Wide Latina actually say? Strange article. They ought to reference that, or don’t bother at all.

You really expect CNN to remind you?

[Jamestown1630]

The link was to an article that was readable in its entirety, and included Sotomayor’s complete remarks.

[MikelTackNailer]

Don't click on The Slimes, Dayglo; copy and paste their link into this site and it will process the article (and jump pay walls if you like):

https://removepaywalls.com/

[Jamestown1630]

Thanks for your advice, but I don’t believe that refusing to click on a link is going to accomplish anything to affect the NYT’s editorial stance.

[ConservativeMind]

Did he just cave on a pending decision and she is doing this as a consolation?

[dayglored]

> The link was to an article that was readable in its entirety, and included Sotomayor’s complete remarks.

Ah, one of the rare free ones. I hadn't expected that, so thanks for the correction. :-)

To be honest, I no longer click on the NYT, WP, or similar media links in Google (or other) News search either. I actually got a trial subscription to the NYT a couple years ago, but found that it was largely worthless, and too expensive for the stuff I wanted. And I don't like paying compulsive liars to lie to me. Seems kinda dumb.

Instead, I've found that Google's "AI Mode", given a brief, careful prompt, will return a reasonable summary as well as links to its source articles. In this case, it gave the bit I copy/pasted in my earlier comment, some addition context, and noted that it had used the NYTimes as its primary source for the quote and gave the NYT link. So I figured it was probably accurate.

[dayglored]

> https://removepaywalls.com/

Cool, thanks!

[Adder]

was she had a Vagina.

A Latin Vagina...

Hence the nickname, the wise[ened] Latina

[iontheball]

Kavanaugh stated the principles of temporary stops perfectly. Sotomayor’s sympathies for field workers is based on emotion and not the law. Thus, she was way off base to PERSONALLY attack a fellow justice for being raised in a home that did not provide him with enough ‘empathy’ to properly judge a migrant’s temporary stop situation.

[Jamestown1630]

I have found so many errors in the AI summaries that have shown up in my searches that I don’t trust them. I always compare them against something else that’s actually published.

[dayglored]

> I have found so many errors in the AI summaries that have shown up in my searches that I don’t trust them. I always compare them against something else that’s actually published.

The Google Search "summaries" that appear at the top of the search results are largely worthless, since they are basically just summaries of the first few results, and thus unpredictable and untrustworthy.

I was referring to the "AI Mode", which uses the Gemini AI itself. Very different mechanism. AI Mode uses the LLM's entire learning corpus, not just a couple of search results, and is much more reliable and accurate. The short summary that it gives as the first part of its extended response is what I meant; sorry that wasn't clear.

In any case, you are absolutely correct that checking AI-produced responses against published sources is always a good idea.

[Jamestown1630]

Thanks.

[Georgia Girl 2]

The new owner of their parent company is a friend of Trump from what I’ve read.

[WASCWatch]

Probably Roberts at the insistence of some of the other justices.

[right way right]

Trump should just add a justice or two just to cancel out a couple DEI appointments made in recent years.