Sotomayor says she feels ‘frustration’ daily as conservative justices move US to right

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Sotomayor says she feels ‘frustration’ daily as conservative justices move US to right
thehill.com

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Monday she feels daily “frustration” as conservative justices move the country to the ideological right.

In an appearance at the University of California, Berkely School of Law, Sotomayor was asked how she copes with the consistently conservative rulings from the court.

“Every loss truly traumatizes me,” but “I get up the next morning,” she said in response to the question, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. The crowd — about 1,300 students — applauded.

In her remarks, she criticized her “originalist colleagues” whom she said have come up with “new ways to interpret the Constitution,” changing rulings “that some of us believed were well established,” the Chronicle reported.

The 6-3 conservative court has had an eventful couple of terms, making its mark on some of the most consequential aspects of everyday life — from overturning the federal right to an abortion to ruling affirmative action in colleges unconstitutional.

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Yes I'm sure both sides get upset when they're out numbered and cant get their legislationthrough. Unfortunately it's the way the system is setup and she's been on both ends. This isn't something she should be complaining about.

There has never been a leftist US supreme court, regardless of what fantasy you've concocted in Enlightened Centrismland

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