Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has revealed that she is sometimes brought to tears in her chambers after some decisions have been handed down. Sotomayor, 69, made the revelation during a talk at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute on Friday, where she was given an award. 'There are days that I've come to my office after an announcement of a case and closed my door and cried,' Sotomayor said. 'There have been those days. And there are likely to be more.
Sotomayor’s remarks came at the end of a public chat with Martha Minow, a former dean of Harvard Law School and human rights scholar. The court has firmly shifted to the right in recent years after former President Trump appointed three justices to the court during his one term. Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch replaced the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, and Justice Brett Kavanaugh replaced retiring conservative Justice Anthony Kennedy.
There have been calls in recent months, including in op-eds such as the one published in the Atlantic, that Sotomayor should retire under the Biden administration. The recent push for the justice to resign comes ahead of the presidential election, with left-leaning pundits and academics arguing that President Biden and the Democrat-controlled Senate could approve a candidate before the presidential election. Sotomayor was born the same year as Brown v. Board of Education.
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