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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I so hope President Trump gets to replace her on the SCOTUS.
She’s horrible.
Biden’s pick even worse and likely be there longer given her age.
1000% agree
Brown has to be the dumbest!!
Clarence Thomas should also retire now so Trump can replace him in case we lose the Senate in the mid terms.
she means the Constitution is a continual source of frustration for her.
Get out and stay out, cholo. Cowardice from a cowardess. Schadenfreude!
More so than Jackson-Brown?
“Perhaps”? Now that Brandon and the cackling lush are gone, she should definitely retire.
Democrat lobbyists have a new big gig coming up with huge stash of cash for a persuader.
Not even close.
KBJ is far and away the dumbest person who has ever sat on the Supreme Court, and this in itself is frightening as she was presumably the best black woman Biden could find after packing the lower courts with other black women.
Sotomayor actually had some surprising pro-2A rulings as a lower court judge.
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