{"id":2664216,"date":"2026-09-18T13:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignin-public-attacks-on-scotus-sotomayor-sinks-to-a-new-low\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T13:49:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:49:26","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignin-public-attacks-on-scotus-sotomayor-sinks-to-a-new-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignin-public-attacks-on-scotus-sotomayor-sinks-to-a-new-low\/","title":{"rendered":"In Public Attacks On SCOTUS, Sotomayor Sinks To A New Low"},"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\">22<\/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%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignin-public-attacks-on-scotus-sotomayor-sinks-to-a-new-low%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=2664216&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>justice Sonia Sotomayor expressed concerns about her fellow Supreme Court justices&#8217; approach to interpreting the law. During a recent event, she criticized conservative colleagues for allegedly ignoring the original intent of the Constitution to achieve desired outcomes and for lacking understanding of how American government functions. Sotomayor highlighted her fears about declining civic education in the U.S., emphasizing the importance of understanding essential governmental principles and the Constitution.She also discussed her disagreement with the so-called unitary executive theory, opposing the increased presidential authority that she believes undermines checks and balances. Despite criticizing her colleagues for ruling based on personal notions of what the law should be,sotomayor has at times made rulings that appear to align with her ideological views,such as her dissent in Dobbs and her support for Obergefell. She has previously made personal attacks on conservative justices, like Brett Kavanaugh, and similar criticisms have been made by other liberal justices, notably Ketanji brown Jackson. her <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >remarks reflect ongoing ideological tensions<\/a> within the Court centered on legal interpretation, government authority, and civic understanding.  <\/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<div>\n<p>Sonia Sotomayor <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/14\/us-news\/supreme-court-justice-sonia-sotomayor-admits-conservative-justices-frustrate-her\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> in an interview last year that she always tries to see the \u201cgood\u201d in her fellow Supreme Court justices, even when they disagree. So, why is she now publicly accusing her conservative colleagues of behaving unethically on the bench and not understanding how American government works?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.li\/OPOEn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reportedly<\/a> happened during an appearance the senior justice made at a University of Oklahoma-Tulsa event on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking to moderators about the three levels of the federal court system, Sotomayor purportedly said that the district court \u201cis the place where judges do justice for the parties before them,\u201d and that as a judge, \u201cyou get to see two parties; they have a problem, and you\u2019re really working on resolving that problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She then described how a judge\u2019s role is somewhat different at the circuit level, where \u201cyou\u2019re trying \u2026 to make sure there was no error in law, and make sure that you\u2019re correcting that.\u201d The Obama appointee lastly turned to the role of the Supreme Court, in which she appeared to accuse her colleagues of ignoring the law\u2019s meaning in order to advance an outcome they deem to be personally favorable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re on the Supreme Court, you\u2019re thinking about what the law should be,\u201d Sotomayor reportedly said. \u201cIf you\u2019re reading our opinions, many of my colleagues are not worried about what the law was. What they\u2019re thinking about is what the law should be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The senior justice also reportedly claimed that \u201csome\u201d of her SCOTUS colleagues \u201cdon\u2019t understand\u201d how American government works. The comment <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/litigation\/sotomayor-renews-sharp-criticism-of-expanding-presidential-power-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">seemingly<\/a> came as part of her remarks about the decline of civic education in America, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/tulsaflyer.org\/2026\/09\/17\/news\/post\/sc-justice-sotomayor-visits-tulsa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">local media<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy greatest fear is that people don\u2019t understand our system of government. They don\u2019t understand what the First Amendment means. They don\u2019t understand what our system of government presumes,\u201d Sotomayor said. \u201cSome of my colleagues don\u2019t either by the way, and I\u2019m not joking about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sotomayor purportedly cited her disagreement with the unitary executive theory, which recognizes the president\u2019s inherent Article II authority over the executive branch. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not what was created\u201d by the Constitution, Sotomayor reportedly claimed. \u201cWe created a government with checks and balances, and the unitary executive theory is overturning that balance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Such issues were at the forefront of the Supreme Court\u2019s <em>Trump v. Slaughter<\/em> (2026) decision, in which the court <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/06\/29\/in-landmark-ruling-supreme-court-affirms-that-presidents-run-the-executive-branch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">upheld<\/a> (6-3) President Trump\u2019s firing of Rebecca Slaughter from the Federal Trade Commission. The ruling \u2014 in which Sotomayor dissented \u2014 notably overturned longstanding precedent that said Congress could enact certain limits on a president\u2019s authority to remove members of so-called \u201cindependent agencies.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Yet for all her supposed concerns about her fellow justices ruling based on what they think the law should be instead of what it actually says, Sotomayor has done exactly that. Since joining the high court, the Obama appointee has regularly disregarded the law\u2019s original meaning to advance outcomes that comport with her left-wing ideology.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, she signed onto the majority opinion in <em>Obergefell v. Hodges<\/em>, which shoehorned so-called \u201cgay marriage\u201d into the Constitution \u2014 despite there being no sound basis for such a decision. And in 2022, she dissented from the court\u2019s <em>Dobbs<\/em> decision overturning <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, which invented an imaginary constitutional \u201cright\u201d to abortion out of thin air. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[RELATED:[RELATED:<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/09\/15\/alito-hints-liberal-justices-slow-walked-dissents-to-stop-trumps-elections-order-for-midterms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alito Hints Liberal Justices Slow-Walked Dissents To Stop Trump\u2019s Elections Order For Midterms<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s remarks are hardly the first instance of Sotomayor using a public forum to attack her colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama appointee notably <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/04\/10\/heres-how-sotomayor-and-jacksons-temper-tantrums-are-causing-headaches-for-kagan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">took a shot<\/a> at Justice Brett Kavanaugh at an event earlier this year over an interim docket <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/09\/scotus-ice-ruling-is-the-latest-embarrassment-for-rogue-lower-courts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">opinion<\/a> he wrote greenlighting the government\u2019s immigration enforcement policies. While criticizing his writings, she said, \u201cThis is from a man whose parents were professionals. And probably doesn\u2019t really know any person who works by the hour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sotomayor later issued statement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/sotomayor-walks-back-remarks-criticizing-kavanaugh-says-comments-inappropriate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">apologizing<\/a> to Kavanaugh for her \u201churtful\u201d and \u201cinappropriate\u201d comments. <\/p>\n<p>Sotomayor isn\u2019t the only left-wing justice to lash out at her conservative colleagues over disagreements in cases, however. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has become infamous for taking personal jabs at the court\u2019s conservative majority.<\/p>\n<p>While speaking at an event last year, the Biden appointee <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/11\/kbj-keeps-showing-america-why-she-doesnt-belong-on-scotus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">characterized<\/a> the Supreme Court\u2019s most recent rulings as an \u201cexistential threat to the rule of law.\u201d She also publicly <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/04\/16\/justice-jackson-minimizes-harms-leftists-anti-trump-judicial-coup-poses-to-executive-power\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">criticized<\/a> her colleagues\u2019 handling of interim docket cases during a speech at Yale Law School earlier this year. <\/p>\n<p>These attacks have also made their way into Jackson\u2019s legal opinions. <\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-how-sotomayor-and-jacksons-temper-tantrums-are-causing-headaches-for-kagan\/\" title=\"..., Jackson&#039;s Outbursts Are Giving Kagan Headaches\">interim docket case involving<\/a> the Trump administration last year, she accused the conservative justices of abandoning proper jurisprudence to bend over backward for the government. She <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/11\/04\/justice-jackson-is-the-supreme-courts-mean-girl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>, \u201cThis is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist. \u2026 Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden appointee more recently <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/05\/05\/jackson-accuses-scotus-of-partiality-she-and-her-fellow-liberal-justices-are-guilty-of\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">accused<\/a> her colleagues of playing politics in a case involving race-based redistricting. The outburst prompted a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/05\/05\/alito-torches-jacksons-trivial-and-insulting-hot-take-on-supreme-courts-latest-callais-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stinging rebuke<\/a> from Justice Samuel Alito, who said that Jackson\u2019s \u201crhetoric \u2026 lacks restraint.\u201d <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He is a co-recipient of the 2025 Dao Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism. His work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics and RealClearHealth. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sotomayor criticizes colleagues\u2019 ethics, understanding of government<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":2664217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Sonia-Sotomayor.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4151,36160,85881,6994,11029],"class_list":["post-2664216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-judiciary","tag-political-controversy","tag-public-attacks","tag-scotus","tag-sotomayor"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Sonia-Sotomayor.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664216","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\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2664216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2664227,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664216\/revisions\/2664227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2664217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2664216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2664216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2664216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}