Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor Proclaims She Has Been Traumatized by Colleagues’ Conservative Rulings

Published on January 30, 2024

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told a group of Berkeley law students that she was traumatized by the conservative rulings of colleagues.  According to a CNN report, she said she lives “in frustration.”  “And as you heard, every loss truly traumatizes me in my stomach and in my heart,” she said. “But I have to get up the next morning and keep on fighting.” Justice Sotomayor was appointed to the Supreme Court by former President Barack Obama in 2009 and is known to be the third woman and first Hispanic to serve. In 1992, former President George H.W. Bush made her a federal judge when he appointed her to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, where she served until 1998 when she was appointed by former President Bill Clinton as a judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit....

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