Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said she lives “in frustration” within the court’s conservative majority, but “has to get up the next morning and keep fighting.”
Sotomayor made the comments Monday while speaking to a packed student auditorium at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.
“I live in frustration. Every loss is really traumatizing to the stomach and heart,” Sotomayor said, according to Bloomberg Law. “But you have to get up the next morning and keep fighting.”
“And this is not what I was expecting as I’m almost 70 years old,” she reportedly added in a conversation with Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. “But it’s still an all-consuming job, and I understand the impact the court has on people, the country, and sometimes the world. And that’s what keeps me going.”
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks with UC Berkeley School of Law Dean Irwin Chemerinsky on Monday at an event at the University of California, Berkeley. (KTVU)
Sotomayor also said that litigation has become “larger” and “more demanding” in recent years, according to Bloomberg Law.
“You know there are more Amici than before and our emergency calendar is more active. I’m tired,” news outlets quoted her as saying. “There used to be a time when we had quite a bit of summer vacation, but now we don’t. Our emergency calendar is busy almost every week.”
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Sotomayor wandered into the audience to speak to students during an event at the University of California, Berkeley. (KTVU)
At one point during the event, Sotomayor walked among the students in the audience.
“Change never happens on its own. It only happens because people are willing to move the arc of the universe toward justice,” she said, according to KTVU, adding, “What choice do we have but to fight the good fight?” “Is that so?” he added.
Sotomayor is one of three Supreme Court justices appointed by Democratic presidents. (Olivier Drierly/AFP via Getty Images)
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Asked how he gets along with colleagues who have different views, Sotomayor said, “When you look for the good in people, it becomes easier to deal with the bad. , Law,”
