Sotomayor recalls closing her door and crying in despair over SCOTUS rulings
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Well, I guess even Supreme Court Justices need a good cry sometimes!
That’s kind of what I feel like doing now.
I’m glad I’m not the only one. Shit is depressing to live through.
It’s nice to know she’s in touch with her feelings.
Now, how about writing some scathing dissents? Maybe bring up ethics issues among the justices? Speak up from the bench and move for Justice Roberts to have Alito and Thomas recused from the cases where there is personal and ethical conflict.
Tears are nice, action would be better.
Someone spends a good majority of their life studying the constitution, doing their best to completely understand it forward and backwards and making rulings based on just those beliefs… and then attains the highest point in their field only to see their “peers” twist and manipulate bullshit every possible moment to destroy what you’ve come to love for the purpose of aiding their political party.
Heartbreak is a legitimate emotion.
Maybe the Democrats should stop letting Republicans run over them. Like denying the POTUS to appoint a SCOTUS because it’s too close to the election, then when A Republican is in office that rule doesn’t apply?
I considered the SCOTUS illegitimate at that moment. It clearly isn’t impartial as it claims to be.
She should retire so we can all avoid another RBG scenario.
me too, sotomayor, me too
When one works their ass off to join a club and finally joins that club only to find a bunch of dudes circle jerking each other off while singing the praises of a guy who took one up the poop chute from a porn star who goes by the name “Stormy the Impaler,” … one cries.
And the GOP probably thinks this is funny.
we owe so much to RBG
breaks my heart.
It’s hard to believe that a group of “enlightened jurists” have their sights set on moving American society backwards by 200 years.
This feels like an omen of things to come.
Didn’t she sign on to the letter from Roberts where he said that SCOTUS doesn’t need ethics rules?
I get that she’s pissed off about the rulings of the court, but come on.
There are a handful of people in the world who can meaningfully impact the way the court works, and she’s one of them.
Don’t cry, fix it.
Then she should definitely understand the need to retire at her age. So Biden can replace her with a young judge. Don’t pull a Ginsburg.
I am convinced the Democratic Party is paid to be feckless and incompetent; to let the republicans just roll in through unpopular legislation and rule. We are all so fucked
Then she should be a proper federal employee, and a good citizen, and call out these bastards on their illegal conduct.
Everyone, including those with power in the government are just sitting quietly, following protocol, not wanting to disrupt the status quo, or afraid of ruining their legacy. Call these assholes out, and quit spending time in the crying room. You are not in a position to be emotional, you are in a position to what is right, legally right, with all that power bestowed upon you.
You got one Justice getting gifts, vacations and property deals from a Republican operative/megadonor, and another Justice who is a biased, not-so-subtle conservative nationalist Christian activist. Their rulings and opinions are compromised before they even get a case in front of them.
So right off the bat, you’re losing 2 votes for common sense and fairness.
It’s hard not to be depressed about the direction the Supreme Court, and the rest of the country is heading.
The rights she and friends may have marched and fought for, are being pissed away by the teeming masses with their idiotic protest votes and purity tests. Hell I’m not from her generation and I was so frustrated I could have screamed. Honey, detach it is the only way to deal with what is coming and when the foolish cry out after they let the orange one into the White House AGAIN, just shrug your shoulders and say “They made their bed, let them suffocate in it.”
She should fuckin’ retire and let Biden appoint a younger justice right fuckin’ now. Goddamn these dipshit old libs think they can still save the world, they don’t even understand the world
I can relate. I’ve been crying, too.
She still legitimatizes the Court and her fellow justices though. She sits for yearly photos and asks questions during the arguments as though everything isn’t already rigged.
She should be making a scene trying to get people to see how far the Court has fallen.
Snarky dissents ain’t cutting it
The only way to fix this is to Vote for Joe and Democrats all the way down ticket. Then convince Joe to expand the court to take the majority back, or get such a huge blue wave in congress, we can impeach and convict Alito and Thomas!
Yeah well maybe you could have had a word with Ruth Bader Ginsberg about retiring after she denied Barack Obama’s request to do so when they had the senate in 2014 before she narcissistically paraded herself around with her “wHo WoUlD yOu RaThEr hAvE tHaN mE” nonsense.
You know, use your voice to stop some of the bleeding, that’d be nice wouldn’t it?
Something I think about a lot is how Justice Kennedy recoiled from something DJT said to him as they walked away from his retirement announcement. He almost looked like he wanted to go back to the podium and retract his decision.
And the press is…wherever.
I mean technically speaking she’s forever apart of the court that stripped away women’s rights and god knows what else they will take and history will not care she was one of the 3 sane votes, history will only see this SCOTUS as an extreme partisan hack that worked to dismantle one of the strongest nations in the world and it will be a case study on what not to do for future democracies. I’d be crying in my office literally every single day if it were me
We should have more empathetic judges like her
I’m not certain, but the acts of some members of the Supreme Court, in aiding their party affiliations over serving justice, sounds extremely treasonous to me.
Then she should take a stand and call SCOTUS out for what it is publicly. Anything less is complicity.
Good. Because they all suck.
Imagine spending your entire life studying the law, studying case after case, trying to put every ounce of thought into your judgments and you have a bunch of clowns next to you who will just make up shit and spin whatever they want for ideological rulings.
She should be for an ethics review for all of scotus