{"id":2253543,"date":"2024-05-26T19:58:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T23:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-sotomayor-on-the-reality-of-being-a-liberal-in-a-conservative-court-i-live-in-frustration\/"},"modified":"2024-05-26T20:00:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T00:00:19","slug":"justice-sotomayor-on-the-reality-of-being-a-liberal-in-a-conservative-court-i-live-in-frustration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-sotomayor-on-the-reality-of-being-a-liberal-in-a-conservative-court-i-live-in-frustration\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in Frustration&#8217;: Justice Sotomayor&#8217;s Perspective as a Liberal in a Conservative Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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-sotomayor-on-the-reality-of-being-a-liberal-in-a-conservative-court-i-live-in-frustration%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=2253543&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 Sonia Sotomayor shared her struggle being\u2064 a liberal in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-to-hear-major-second-amendment-case\/\" title=\"Supreme Court to hear major Second Amendment case\">conservative majority court<\/a>. Speaking at Harvard University, she admitted there were days when cases would leave her in tears. Whilst not revealing\u2063 specifics, \u200dSotomayor alluded to the forthcoming major court cases concerning abortion and former President Trump\u2019s immunity claim. Despite the intensity of disagreements, \u2062Sotomayor insists personal relationships \u2062between justices remain cordial. Commenting on the changing court climate, Justice Clarence Thomas asserted\u2064 it&#8217;s\u2064 unlike when he joined in 1991,\u200d acknowledging it, \u2064albeit a \u200cdysfunctional one, felt more \u200dlike a family.  <\/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<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/news\/\">  News <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/russdavis\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/russdavis\/%20\"><span>Jack Davis<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   May 26, 2024 at 4:36pm <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>Conservative logic can make liberals weep \u2014 perhaps literally.<\/p>\n<p>Just ask Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who on Friday told a Harvard University audience that life can be very hard now that conservatives form a majority on the court.<\/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 Friday said while at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, to scoop up an award, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/05\/24\/politics\/sotomayor-crying-supreme-court-decisions\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been those days. And there are likely to be more,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Sotomayor did not address specifics, but as the end of the court term approaches, so will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawmakers-reintroduce-bill-to-abolish-qualified-immunity-for-police\/\" title=\"Lawmakers Reintroduce Bill to Abolish Qualified Immunity for Police\">major cases<\/a> that deal with abortion and former President Donald Trump\u2019s claim that presidential immunity should shield him from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/let-us-prey-how-a-christian-suicide-bomber-exposed-muslims-faking-conversions-to-avoid-deportation\/\" title=\"Let Us Prey? How A \u2018Christian\u2019 Suicide Bomber Exposed Muslims Faking Conversions To Avoid Deportation\">criminal cases brought<\/a> by President Joe Biden\u2019s Justice Department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd there are moments when, yes, even I feel desperation. We all do. But you have to own it. You have to accept it. You have to shed the tears,\u00a0and then you have to wipe them and get up and fight some more,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Sotomayor made similar comments about being part of a wing of the court that usually loses.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI live in frustration. And as you heard, every loss truly traumatizes me in my stomach and in my heart. But I have to get up the next morning and keep on fighting,\u201d Sotomayor said at an event at the University of California,\u00a0Berkeley School of Law, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/01\/29\/politics\/sotomayor-supreme-court-frustration\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A snowflake judge just what we need \ud83d\ude44<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Old School Eddie (@Old_SchoolEddie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Old_SchoolEddie\/status\/1794419604233781379?\">May 25, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Do you have any sympathy for Justice Sotomayor?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In February, when speaking to a more mainstream audience at the National Governors Association, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ethics-alert-supreme-court-justice-sotomayor-used-taxpayer-funded-court-staff-sell-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sotomayor<\/a> tried to put a less dispirited face on life at the court, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/02\/23\/sotomayor-barrett-supreme-court-camaraderie-00143045\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we disagree, our pens are sharp, but on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/walsh-karen-is-an-anti-white-racial-slur\/\" title=\"WALSH: \u2018Karen\u2019 Is An Anti-White Racial Slur\">personal level<\/a>, we never translate that into our relationship with one another,\u201d Sotomayor declared.<\/p>\n<p>Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/angry-leftist-students-attempt-shut-amy-coney-barrett-speech-fails-miserably\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amy Coney Barrett<\/a>, a member of the conservative majority who spoke to the group with Sotomayor, agreed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJustice Sotomayor showed up in my office with Halloween candy for my kids because it was right around Halloween time for my husband to take back to Indiana with him on that weekend,\u201d Barrett said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCollegiality isn\u2019t going to make you change your principles \u2026 but there\u2019s a way to have disagreement and to meet each other where it is possible to meet,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>But in 2022, Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/clarence-thomas-already-issued-perfect-response-media-members-want-quit-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clarence Thomas<\/a> said the court\u2019s climate was not what is was in 1991 when he joined the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not the court of that era,\u201d Thomas said. \u201cI sat with Ruth Ginsburg for almost 30 years, and she was actually an easy colleague to deal with. \u2026 We may have been a dysfunctional family, but we were a family.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>An Important Message from Our Staff:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>We who work here at The Western Journal have fought for years against Big Tech and the elites who want to shut us down and then shut America down. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Make no mistake \u2014 nothing will be the same after November 2024. 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Please don\u2019t let the America-hating left win. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>Stand with us today<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>!<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"author-info-44685\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/russdavis\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><label for=\"summary-tab-radio-44685\">Summary<\/label><label for=\"more-info-tab-radio-44685\">More<span> Biographical Information<\/span><\/label><label for=\"posts-tab-radio-44685\">Recent<span> Posts<\/span><\/label><label for=\"contact-tab-radio-44685\" onclick=\"if( typeof grecaptcha=='undefined' ) { let cap_s=document.createElement( 'script' ); cap_s.src='https:\/\/www.google.com\/recaptcha\/api.js?render=6LeJFcsUAAAAAPsIEqvB1EebWbZfqRUe6ebMpGy7'; document.body.appendChild( cap_s ); }\">Contact<\/label><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Jack Davis is a freelance writer who joined The Western Journal in July 2015 and chronicled the campaign that saw President Donald Trump elected. Since then, he has written extensively for The Western Journal on the Trump administration as well as foreign policy and military issues.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>  Jack Davis is a freelance writer who joined The Western Journal in July 2015 and chronicled the campaign that saw President Donald Trump elected. Since then, he has written extensively for The Western Journal on the Trump administration as well as foreign policy and military issues. <br \/> Jack can be reached at jackwritings1@gmail.com. <\/p>\n<p>  Location <\/p>\n<p>  New York City <\/p>\n<p>  Languages Spoken <\/p>\n<p>  English <\/p>\n<p>  Topics of Expertise <\/p>\n<p>  Politics, Foreign Policy, Military &#038; Defense Issues <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Davis reported on May 26, 2024, that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor conveyed her struggle as a liberal in a conservative-dominated court to a Harvard University crowd. 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