Justice Sonia Sotomayor: 'There is going to be a lot of disappointment in the law, a huge amount'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Days before the start of a tumultuous term, and after the Supreme Court justices divided bitterly over a Texas law that bars most abortions after six weeks, Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned an audience of law students about the frustration of having to write dissents.

"There is going to be a lot of disappointment in the law, a huge amount," she said Wednesday at an event hosted by the American Bar Association. "Look at me, look at my dissents."

Earlier this month, Sotomayor penned a scathing opinion when the court's majority allowed the Texas law to go into effect, calling the action "stunning."

"You know, I can't change Texas' law," Sotomayor said Wednesday, "but you can and everyone else who may or may not like it can go out there and be lobbying forces in changing laws that you don't like."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/justice-sonia-sotomayor-there-is-going-to-be-a-lot-of-disappointment-in-the-law-a-huge-amount/ar-AAOY2TS

With beer bong Brett and the handmaiden things could get ugly.

[bluestarone]

1. Sounds very much like SHE'S

As worried as we ALL are! VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Women having sex without the permission of white rightwingers is not going to be tolerated

anymore, contraception is next.

[LymphocyteLover]

7. they want Griswold struck down-- the right to privacy

which also covers gay rights and allows them to invade our lives in many ways. The sick freaks.

[fescuerescue]

27. I'm surprised that they have leveraged Griswold

against vaccine mandates yet.

If Griswold goes, life will change in ways they haven't imagined.

[czarjak]

12. It's BLM's fault too?

[BlueLucy]

20. You are 100% right!

I went over and took a peek at what freepers where saying and they are saying as much.

[Farmer-Rick]

3. That's why we need to add judges to the Court.

It's plain the batsh*t crazy GOPer supremes have a strangle hold on American democracy. We need to make it fair and unpack the court.

First step trash the filibuster.

[lastlib]

9. Better yet, take the reich-wing SCOTUS out of the picture.....

Create a National Court of Appeals, pack it with maybe 25 good young prgressive judges. All appeals from lower courts go there. Strip the Supreme Court of its appellate jurisdiction (yes, Congress can do this--Article III), and leave it with its constitutional original jurisdiction. Clarence PubicHair can take all the naps he wants, BeerBoy Kavanaugh can drink himself into oblivion (if he hasn't already), and the nation gets justice.

[MsLeopard]

16. This

A hundred times, this.

[leftstreet]

17. +1

[Crowman2009]

15. But but...what about the traditions of a 9 justice supreme court!?!

I swear a lot of the traditions in this country are just made up to maintain superiority of white straight male fundie x-tian landowners.

[lagomorph777]

26. +4

(four more justices) is what we need to right the ship.

[Demovictory9]

4. not disappointment in the law, disappointment in the rightwing nuts appointed to bench

[moonscape]

5. Don't envy her job.

[LiberatedUSA]

6. She just said get ready for some disappointing decisions.

If I am reading between the lines correctly.

[wnylib]

11. That might be what she meant, but

I took it differently. She was speaking to a group of law students, who are probably a bit idealistic before getting actual experience. So I took her words to be a warning that they will experience disappointments when they start practicing law and that the recent ruling on the Texas abortion law is a real life example from her own experience.

[ShazzieB]

18. That was my reading as well.

[StarfishSaver]

23. That's how I read it, as well

As badass and progressive as Justice Sotomayor is, I doubt she would publicly telegraph - even in code - how she thinks her colleagues are going to decide cases.

[LudwigPastorius]

10. "...you can and everyone else who may or may not like it can go out there and...

be lobbying forces in changing laws that you don't like."

With much respect to Justice Sotomayor, she grew up in New York. I don't know that she's ever, as a mere humble citizen, tried to lobby a Texas Republican before.

I've been writing letters and emails to my Senators and Reps. for 40 years. I'm pretty sure that, over that time, none of those people ever saw a single missive I sent.

Nope. The ONLY way to "lobby" a Texas politician like Cruz, et al. is to either A) vote them the hell out of office, or B) have enough money to bribe them.

[druidity33]

21. She was talking to Law students...

not the general public. Context is pretty important when excerpting one sentence from a long speech. These students will go on to become judges, District Attorneys, etc...

[StarfishSaver]

25. +1000

Thank you

This is much ado about nothing.

[TheDemsshouldhireme]

13. The federalist society

has taken power over a branch of government and they will be in power for decades. There is no Sandra Day OConner and Roberts attempts are negated by Coney-Barrett and Kavanaugh. The supreme court went from lean right to hard right. Maybe someday the middle class and the media will realize the working class has gone down hill since the rightward shift in the court around 1970. Now the tear down of the great society, voting rights, womens rights rolled back.

[Boomerproud]

22. The media and the rural community will (and already have)

blamed the systematic loss of the middle class on Democrats and the "failure" of the Great Society programs, not on the RW and 1%.

[Historic NY]

14. Election have consequences....you were warned.

[spudspud]

19. +1 /nt

[StarfishSaver]

24. Yup

But her emails ...