Posted on 05/25/2024 2:28:08 AM PDT by algore
Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor admits she sometimes finds herself in tears over the rulings of the conservative dominated high court.
Sotomayor, 69, is one of three remaining Democrat-appointed judges on the court alongside Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
While she's always been in the minority on the court, recently the court has taken a more rightward turn under a 6-3 majority, which includes the repeal of Roe vs. Wade.
In a talk as she was given an award at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute Friday, she admitted it brings her to tears sometimes.
'There are days that I've come to my office after an announcement of a case and closed my door and cried
But she followed it up by saying the right-wing bombshells are likely to continue for the foreseeable future.
'There have been those days. And there are likely to be more,'
She did not specify which cases had made her cry
'There are moments when I'm deeply, deeply sad. There are moments when, yes, even I feel desperation. We all do,' she said.
'But you have to own it, you have to accept it, you have to shed the tears and then you have to wipe them and get up,' Sotomayor added.
The eldest of the three Democrat-appointed justices, Sotomayor has faced calls to retire to ensure that Democrats will at least remain at three judges on the court should Donald Trump win in 2024.
The Atlantic published an op-ed in March penned by journalist Josh Barro calling on President Joe Biden and other Democrats to push the 69-year-old liberal justice to retire while the White House and Senate remains in Democratic hands.
Otherwise, Barro warned, Democrats risked the 6-3 conservative majority growing to 7-2 if former President Donald Trump or Senate Republicans are successful.
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Elections have consequences.
“Proof her rulings are emotional rather than rational.”
Excellent point.
Sonia - Honey.
Too bad.
So sad.
Please stay healthy until January 22, 2025.
Aren’t we told that that SCOTUS is apolitical? Sotomayor is the dumbest, most political of all. The “wise Latina” detests the Constitution and our Founders. God help us if the Dems gain a majority.
The Court is not 6-3. It is a tenuous 5-4 depending on the issue.
Not all bad! If she cries more she eats less....
Awww, did she get her little fweelings hurt? Maybe she needs to resign and take a job as a Walmart greeter. Poor thing!
Weird how this isn’t judicial bias but a historical flag is.
We know something is up when you see stories such as this one The recent, continuous attacks on Alito and Thomas foreshadow some new decisions, which don’t go the way of the Dems. Some more leaking is coming from the Court.
Is this the reason Biden wants the first debate on June 27? Will he use the coming decisions to distract from his terrible record? I see J6 and election denial as being the central topics of the first debate along with abortion. Biden will use the composition of the Court as a reason to re-elect him.
Maybe she’s realizing what she’s crying about is: 1) She now understands she’s ineffective and less competent than her peers, 2) Even the Leftists are starting to hate her, 3) That she didn’t earn this position, all her work was meaningless, they simply wanted a female minority. They could have just as easily chosen Dora the Explorer.
She can Kentanji should go off in a corner and try to figure out what a woman is, even though their not scientists.
And this is someone serving on the greatest judicial court in the land. SMDH.
SCOTUS is the only thing preventing the Marxists from having total control of the government.
Tell her to grow up
She just shuts the door and cries privately.
And then goes around wailing publicly.
The more the krone cries the better off the country is.
Here’s hoping the self-proclaimed “Wise Latina” has a Ginsburg-sized ego and remains on the Court until it is too late.
Poor lady! Forced to weep repeatedly at the atrocities perpetuated by the more conservative majority, she always has the option of resigning. But then, so did Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
Hehehe. Perhaps she will resign for personal reasons, under trump.
Ya gotta be pretty evil to the core to cry over ru,ings that are objective and fair and balanced to all- because for the most part that is how conservative judges rule-
Likely the o ly thing she “cried about” was no longer having a “right” to murder unborn! And if so, how f.ippin sick is that?!
The three communists on the court are not happy. GOOD!!
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