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.
What legacy is that? She wasn’t the first to die in the office?
No but by refusing to retire when Obama was still able to appoint her replacement (because she believed Hillary would win) she inadvertently allowed Trump to pick her replacement
Even before Trump was elected, the Republican Senate blocked Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland. Had RBG stepped down and Republicans blocked two nominations between 2014-2016, we would be blaming her for stepping down too soon and giving Trump two nominations on day one.
It’s really just a result of a shitty terrible system, and RBG doesn’t deserve all the blame for the current situation we’re seeing.
Exactly. People forgot how the Republicans have been playing dirty tricks every step of the way. Then they gaslight the left into blaming each other instead of them.
One of the reasons they were able to get away with that is it was Scalia who had died and was being replaced. The media was pretty complicit in the whole thing, Obama being able to swing the court to the left was something the powers that be were against.
She tried to be a decent person in an indecent time.
OK so she wasn’t the first to put her own personal legacy ahead of the good of people, so it’s all good then?
If she had simply step aside and let Obama replace her, we would not have this packed illegitimate Supreme Court.
That selfish decision continues to make waves, and those waves continue to hurt us the people. Those waves hurt the rights of women who once look to RBG as an icon.
Well, I suppose she is still an icon, an icon for selfishness and personal pride over the good of the entire fucking nation.
Oh but she wasn’t the first so it’s okay!
I commented elsewhere in this thread, but it bears repeating, even under Obama, Republicans were blocking nominations. Putting the current situation of the court with the benefit of hindsight, completely on RBG, is misguided.