Justice Sotomayor Conversation 2024

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    Justice Sotomayor speaks on frustration following some Supreme Court rulings (01/29/2024)

    “I 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,” Sotomayor, the court’s senior liberal member, said at an event at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

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    Sotomayor Calls Supreme Court Pace, Workload More Demanding (01/29/2024)

    “And to be almost 70 years old, this isn’t what I expected,” Sotomayor said Monday during an appearance at the University of California, Berkeley’s law school. “But it is still work that is all consuming and I understand the impact the court has on people and on the country, and sometimes the world. And so it is what keeps me going.”

  • SF Chronicle

    ‘Every loss truly traumatizes me,’ Sotomayor says at UC Berkeley of life in SCOTUS minority (01/29/2024)

    Speaking at UC Berkeley, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was asked Monday how she copes with the steady stream of rulings by the court’s conservative majority, usually over the dissents of Sotomayor and her two liberal colleagues. “Every loss truly traumatizes me” but “I get up the next morning,” she replied, to applause from the audience of 1,300 students.