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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We need you to hang in there and don’t die on us for 7 more months Wide Latina. Feel free to croak after that.
Do allow us to taste your sweet Liberal tears!
May I collect them in my great big Mason Jar?
Unwise Latina is upset because Leftist Totalitarian won’t fly.
tears of unfathomable sadness!
Activist judges swear an oath to “protect and defend the Constitution” (as written) and then make rulings based on what they wish. Roe was the perfect example: There is nothing remotely pertaining to a “right” to abortion in the Constitution; however, 7 unelected individuals wanted it and created a national law, itself unconstitutional, because the “felt like it”.
Totally unprofessional individual punching far above her weight
“The Wise Latina” is the best of the three lefty witches on the court. Kagan is an incompetent dufus, and Brown-Jackson is only there for her color.
“There are moments when I’m deeply, deeply sad.”
This comment is misleading. It pretends to describe a universally shared emotion.
But sadness caused by court rulings putting limits on killing babies is not a universally shared emotion—it’s an abnormal, fringe emotion.
Proof her rulings are emotional rather than rational.
The wizened Latina.
Self-recuse, Chica. Crying over cases is worse than hanging a flag the way you want.
That’s a really good reason to keep a couple libs on the court.
If the decision makes the Latina cry then the conservatives know it is the right one.
Proof that womens' suffrage was a big mistake?
Curious that someone whose profession is and studies the law at the highest level hates the US Constitution.
SS...a mental trainwreck.
There is going to be much more than crying on January 21, 2025. Much more. Retribution and punishment is coming on a grand scale even if WW3 comes first.
Either way, the world of the Deep state Globohomo’s is coming to an end, along with the payback.
Looking at you MSNBC. Your propagandist will be the first to taste the sweet nectar of reprisal and then the rope. /spit
‘There are days that I’ve come to my office after an announcement of a case and closed my door and cried
Bullshit.
I can see where a liberal judge would cry when they realize they actually don’t understand law.
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