U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Monday she feels daily âfrustrationâ 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.
âEvery loss truly traumatizes me,â but âI get up the next morning,â she said in response to the question, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. The crowd â about 1,300 students â applauded.
In her remarks, she criticized her âoriginalist colleaguesâ whom she said have come up with ânew ways to interpret the Constitution,â changing rulings âthat some of us believed were well established,â 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 â from overturning the federal right to an abortion to ruling affirmative action in colleges unconstitutional.
I donât see how anyone ever thought that a president appointing them would be bipartisan. Ironic indeed.
âOk, we want to find the best legal minds in the country to serve on the Supreme Court in a fair manner without political bias. How do we select them?â
âLetâs put the selection in the hands of a politician!â (With confirmations also done by politicians)
âBrilliant!â
Though I guess that any other system put in place could be corrupted in some other way.
