{"id":2253493,"date":"2024-05-26T17:53:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T21:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberal-scotus-justice-reveals-she-cries-after-some-decisions\/"},"modified":"2024-05-26T17:55:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T21:55:18","slug":"liberal-scotus-justice-reveals-she-cries-after-some-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberal-scotus-justice-reveals-she-cries-after-some-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Justice Admits to Tearful Reactions Following Certain SCOTUS Decisions"},"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%2Fliberal-scotus-justice-reveals-she-cries-after-some-decisions%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=2253493&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>Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, at a Harvard University event where she was honored for \u200dher societal impact, revealed that some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-senate-judiciary-committee-confirms-amy-coney-barrett-for-supreme-court-democrats-boycott-committee-vote\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Senate Judiciary Committee Confirms Amy Coney Barrett for Supreme Court -- Democrats Boycott Committee Vote\">justice<\/a>-department-drops-discrimination-lawsuit-against-yale\/&#8221; title=&#8221;Biden\u2019s Justice Department Drops Discrimination Lawsuit Against Yale&#8221;>court decisions<\/a> have\u2062 driven her\u2064 to tears. She did not specify which cases,\u200d but she acknowledged experiencing profound sadness \u2063and \u2063desperation. Despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eric-swalwell-testifies-over-haunting-capitol-riot-at-trial-to-yank-trump-from-colorado-ballot\/\" title=\"Eric Swalwell testified about the Capitol riot at the trial to remove Trump from the Colorado ballot.\">emotional \u200ctoll<\/a>, Sotomayor said it&#8217;s crucial to persist and continue the\u2064 fight. Appointed in 2009, she has witnessed significant shifts in the Supreme Court&#8217;s composition, \u2062including its transition to\u2063 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/irrelevant-mistake-prone-liberal-justice-is-supreme-courts-voice-media-say\/\" title=\"Media claim that the Supreme Court's 'voice' is an irrelevant and error-prone liberal justice.\">6-3 conservative-majority<\/a>\u200b under former President Donald Trump.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Liberal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Supreme Court<\/a> Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/sonia-sotomayor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sonia Sotomayor<\/a> opened up on Friday at Harvard University about how she has cried after some court decisions.<\/p>\n<p>The Harvard Crimson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2024\/5\/26\/sonia-sotomayor-scotus-radcliffe-medal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> on Sotomayor\u2019s candid admission, which happened during an event at which she received <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2024\/3\/23\/radcliffe-medal-sonia-sotomayor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a medal<\/a> recognizing her impact on society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are days that I\u2019ve come to my office after an announcement of a case and closed my door and cried,\u201d Sotomayor said.<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cThere have been those days. And there are likely to be more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/05\/24\/politics\/sotomayor-crying-supreme-court-decisions\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted<\/a> that\u00a0Sotomayor did not mention any particular cases that have caused her to shed tears.<\/p>\n<p>The justice did acknowledge how there are \u201cmoments when I\u2019m deeply, deeply sad. And there are moments when, yes, even I feel desperation. We all do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sotomayor went on, \u201cBut you have to own it. You have to accept it. You have to shed the tears, and then you have to wipe them and get up and fight some more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A justice since 2009, Sotomayor witnessed former President Donald Trump lead the charge in creating a 6-3 conservative-majority Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hollywood-celebs-rage-in-defeat-after-barrett-confirmation-revolting-disgraceful-unconscionable\/\" title=\"Hollywood Celebs Rage in Defeat After Barrett Confirmation: 'Revolting. Disgraceful. Unconscionable'\">high court<\/a> has levied significant rulings opposed by Sotomayor, including one in 2022 that overturned <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/should-sotomayor-retire-biden_n_66032a7ae4b006c3905731dd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legal scholars<\/a> have been pushing for Sotomayor, who is 69 and a lifelong diabetic, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/dem-senators-get-anxious-over-prospect-of-another-ginsburg-situation-on-scotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">step down<\/a> and give President Joe Biden another nominee.<\/p>\n<p>The pressure campaign picked up steam after Sotomayor said in January that she was <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/us-law-week\/sotomayor-says-surprised-by-supreme-court-pace-tougher-workload\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201ctired\u201d<\/a> from her workload.<\/p>\n<p>NBC News reported last month that Senate Democrats were concerned about a scenario echoing Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg\u2019s sudden death.<\/p>\n<p>Ginsburg\u2019s passing in September 2020 allowed Trump to nominate one more eventual justice \u2014 Amy Coney Barrett \u2014 in the final months of his presidency.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think she really has to weigh the competing factors,\u201d Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) told the news outlet. \u201cWe should learn a lesson.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cThe old saying \u2014 graveyards are full of indispensable people, ourselves in this body included.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden is running for a second term, paving the way to a 2020 general election rematch against Trump in this year\u2019s contest.<\/p>\n<p>White House spokesman Andrew Bates said Biden \u201cbelieves that decisions to retire from the Supreme Court should be made by the justices themselves and no one else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Harvard University on Friday, Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor candidly admitted that certain court decisions have brought her to tears. She expressed this during a ceremony where she was honored for her societal contributions. It is not uncommon for her to return to her office tear-streaked from emotional rulings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":2253494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-2057938375-scaled-e1716749951479.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2253493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-2057938375-scaled-e1716749951479.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253493","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\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2253494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}