Posted on 09/13/2025 4:38:38 PM PDT by simpson96
Last year, leftist activists repeatedly urged Justice Sonia Sotomayor to retire, hoping Biden could appoint a younger liberal replacement. In addition to her age, health concerns were also a factor. Last year, we learned that Sotomayor travels with a medic due to her Type 1 diabetes, an extraordinary precaution that underscores the seriousness of her condition. Records showed she's required medical assistance during travel and regularly carries medical supplies. While she's managed her diabetes since childhood, at her age the physical and emotional toll of serving on a court where she's perpetually outvoted must weigh heavily.
Once again, Sotomayor expressed frustration with her experiences on the Supreme Court with a conservative majority during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where she admitted just how difficult it is for her to stomach her conservative colleagues on the bench.
“She taught me to look for the best in people,” Sotomayor said of her mother. “That was the lesson that moment gave me, and it’s one I look for in my colleagues.”
Of course, the justice couldn’t resist making it clear how much she disagrees with the Court’s conservative majority. “I don’t agree with them much. At least not with the majority. And they can be really frustrating. And there are moments when I want to scurry out of the room. But I don’t. And what I look for to maintain our collegiality is the good in them,” she explained.
Sotomayor may insist she’s trying to see the good in her fellow justices, but her remarks show just how deep the ideological divide really runs on today’s Court. While she frames it as collegiality, the underlying message is unmistakable: conservatives are a constant source of frustration for her.
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KBJ….
The Law and The Constitution be damned - she is a Wise Latina. LOL!
RBG was a sham throughout. She never gave a damn about anything or anyone but RBG.
She will put ‘Dumbest SCOTUS Justice Ever’ up there with Pete Rose’s hit record..
A more recently passed statute...trumps an older one. I’m thinking there must be a statute specifying 9 now. But if another statute comes along raising it to 15, that one prevails.
Somehow, I don't believe that scurrying is among her skill sets.
LOL.
More like waddling.
Now now dont forget i am not a biologist
The “wise Latina” needs an off ramp.
Dyed steel wool.
WTH is she doing on TV?
She’s lucky she can travel with her own personal medic. A regular person probably would have landed in the hospital by now.
The LA metro I saw was about 55% Hispanic, 15% white, 10% black and about 2% Asian Indian and about 8% East Asian.
East LA is nearly 100% Hispanic. Most people on LA streets are either Hispanic or black. The whites are generally either homeless or noisy and obviously American.
Amendment IV requires searches to be reasonable. Fruitlessly upsetting Hancock Park matrons is going to be both unproductive and unreasonable.
The explicit constitutional requirement of reasonableness must not be trampled upon for the sake of imagined rights.
A man fishes where the fish are and not in my neighbors’ pool.
Good, so quit and take the not-a-biologist with you.
RE:....try reading some of her positions.
True. Notice when they made a children’s picture book of What is the Supreme Court for 1st-3rd graders, the quotes from her didn’t have to be edited for that reading level.
(kidding)
That’s probably the high school student reading level now.
And the adults can vote.
Below a sixth-grade level: Over half of all U.S. adults (54%), approximately 130 million people, read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level.
Functionally illiterate: About 45 million U.S. adults are functionally illiterate, meaning they read below a fifth-grade level.
Lowest proficiency level: In 2023, 28% of U.S. adults scored at the lowest literacy level, an increase of 9 percentage points since 2017.
National rank: The U.S. ranks 36th in the world for literacy, far behind other developed nations, which typically have adult literacy rates of 96% or higher.
Her health aside, People like Sotomayor don’t belong anywhere near any court as a judge. Especially not the Supreme court.
Gosh, I wonder if conservative justices were ever frustrated when the leftists had the majority...
We’ve had it with it.
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