Liberal US Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor has admitted that she cries after some cases and can feel “desperation” about rulings. The 69-year-old justice didn’t refer to any specific cases, but particularly controversial rulings in recent years have resulted the , which protected access to abortion, and . “There are days that I’ve come to my office after an announcement of a case and closed my door and cried,” Sotomayor told the at Harvard University, where she received an award on Friday (24 May).
“There have been those days. And there are likely to be more.” Sotomayor’s comments come as the Supreme Court is poised to rule on a number of , including whether former president Donald Trump will be immune from prosecution, and about access to the abortion pill mifepristone.
“There are moments when I’m deeply, deeply sad,” said Sotomayor, who was nominated for the bench by Barack Obama in 2009 and is married to husband Kevin Edward Noonan who she’s dated since high school. “And there are moments when, yes, I feel desperation. We all do.
But you have to own it. You have to accept it. You have to shed the tears, then you have to wipe them and get up and fight some more.
” Sotomayor has previously discussed her “frustration” with some of the court’s decisions. The Supreme Court consists of nine justices. At the moment, six of them were appointed by Republican presidents, giving the bench a strong conservative tilt.
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