Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says she sometimes cries over rulings made by conservative-majority court and hints more right-wing bombshells are to come
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Sotomayor is one of three remaining Democrat-appointed judges on the court
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She admitted at Harvard Friday that the court's rightward turn has made her cry
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'There have been those days. And there are likely to be more,' Sotomayor warned
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,' she said.
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,' Sotomayor warned.
She did not specify which cases had made her cry but admitted that there were intense feelings after certain judgements.
'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.