Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor mentioned she lives in perpetual frustration as her conservative colleagues rule on landmark circumstances which have reshaped the nation in recent times.
“Every loss truly traumatizes me, in my stomach and in my heart,” the justice advised a crowd of scholars on the University of California, Berkeley School of Law on Monday. “But I have to get up the next morning and keep on fighting.”
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Sotomayor, who has served on the courtroom since her appointment by President Barack Obama in 2009, has issued a string of scathing dissents in recent times after former President Donald Trump reshaped the courtroom’s idealogical make-up. The bench’s 6-3 conservative majority has since ended the protections beneath Roe v. Wade, which codified Americans’ entry to abortion, and just lately cleared the way in which for the first-ever execution of an inmate on loss of life row with nitrogen gasoline.
“Having failed to kill Smith on its first attempt, Alabama has selected him as its ‘guinea pig’ to test a method of execution never attempted before,” Sotomayor wrote of the upcoming execution of Kenneth Smith, including the “world is watching”