{"id":1521324,"date":"2022-06-17T21:05:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T01:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1521324"},"modified":"2022-06-17T21:05:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T01:05:39","slug":"justice-clarence-thomas-gets-surprise-defense-from-justice-sotomayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-clarence-thomas-gets-surprise-defense-from-justice-sotomayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Clarence Thomas Gets Surprise Defense \u2014 From Justice Sotomayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjustice-clarence-thomas-gets-surprise-defense-from-justice-sotomayor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1521324&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Supreme Court Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/justice-sotomayor-missed-the-mark-on-covid-19-and-kids-by-over-95000-the-view-hosts-blow-it-off-it-happens\/\">Sonia Sotomayor<\/a> made it clear on Thursday that despite differing judicial philosophies, she held her colleague Justice Clarence Thomas in the highest regard.<\/p>\n<p>Sotomayor made the comments during a public speech at the\u00a0American Constitution Society, speaking to the audience about the man she called \u201cfriend\u201d in spite of their fairly regular differences of opinion.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cJustice Thomas is the one justice in the building that literally knows every employee\u2019s name, every one of them. . . . he is a man who cares deeply about the court as an institution, about the people who work there \u2014 about people.\u201d \u2013 Justice Sotomayor <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Pz4TKWeFi3\">pic.twitter.com\/Pz4TKWeFi3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JCN (@judicialnetwork) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/judicialnetwork\/status\/1537840337317777417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI suspect I have probably disagreed with him more than with any other justice, that we have not joined each other\u2019s opinions more than anybody else,\u201d Sotomayor said of Thomas. \u201cAnd yet, Justice Thomas is the one justice in the building that literally knows every employee\u2019s name \u2014 every one of them. And not only does he know their names, he knows their families\u2019 names and their histories. He\u2019s the first one who will go up to someone when you\u2019re walking with him and say, \u2018Is your son okay? How\u2019s your daughter doing in college?\u2019 He\u2019s the first one that when my stepfather died, sent me flowers in Florida.\u00a0He is a man who cares deeply about the court as an institution, about the people who work there, but about people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has a different vision than I do about how to help people and about their responsibilities to help themselves,\u201d Sotomayor said, adding that Thomas truly believed that anyone could pull themselves up by their bootstraps \u2014 but her opinion was that some people needed just a little extra help in order to get to their bootstraps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I think we share a common understanding about people and kindness toward them. That\u2019s why I can be friends with him and still continue our daily battle over our difference of opinions in cases,\u201d Sotomayor concluded, prompting laughter when she over-emphasized the words \u201cdaily battle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sotomayor\u2019s comments come amid calls for <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/media-claims-ginni-thomas-was-agitating-about-trumps-election-loss-on-a-listserv-thats-not-what-happened\/\">Thomas\u2019s wife Ginni<\/a> to stand before the January 6 Committee \u2014 and the wait for a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/abortion-activist-arrested-for-chaining-himself-to-scotus-fence-claims-authorities-dropped-charges-out-of-fear-of-public-perception\/\">Supreme Court ruling<\/a> in\u00a0<em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSupreme Court Justices are patriots. They are not about politics. Watching Justice Sotomayor talk this way about Justice Thomas is beautiful. They are patriots, even when we, and they, disagree with opinions. The late Justice Scalia and Justice Ginsburg loved each other,\u201d Carmine Sabia <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CarmineSabia\/status\/1537953525275144192\">remarked<\/a> in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>And while many agreed that it was refreshing to see two justices who disagreed \u2014 so often and so fully \u2014 still be respectful of each other as human beings, there were also a number who could not reconcile their feelings about Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t doubt that Justice Thomas knows every employee\u2019s name. He certainly knew Anita Hill\u2019s name when she worked for him,\u201d Aura Bogado <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aurabogado\/status\/1537935278999932929\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Noah Berlatsky <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nberlat\/status\/1537951663108943872\">added<\/a>, \u201cPeople are pointing out the issues with Ginni, but it\u2019s also worth noting that Clarence Thomas has been very credibly accused of workplace sexual harassment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor made it clear on Thursday that despite differing judicial philosophies, she held her colleague Justice Clarence Thomas in the highest regard. Sotomayor made the comments during a public speech at the\u00a0American Constitution Society, speaking to the audience about the man she called \u201cfriend\u201d in spite of their fairly regular differences &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1521339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1521324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1521324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1521339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1521324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1521324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1521324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}