Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday told legal educators she felt a 'sense of despair' at the direction taken by the U.S. Supreme Court during its previous term, during which its conservative majority overturned the constitutional right to abortion.
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks to attendees during commemorations for International Women's Day at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York City, New York, U.S. March 8, 2019. REUTERS/Eduardo MunozSAN DIEGO, Jan 4 - Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday told legal educators she felt a "sense of despair" at the direction taken by the U.S.
The court on June 24 overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that had legalized abortion nationwide after one day earlier delivering anDuring her hourlong conversation with University of California, Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, Sotomayor did not mention by name the abortion ruling, called Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. Nor did she discuss the May leak of a draft version of that decision before it was officially released the following month.
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