'Shell-Shocked': Sonia Sotomayor Shares How She Felt After Supreme Court Overturned Abortion Rights
The liberal SCOTUS justice was very upset about the way things turned out.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor (Photo by ERIN SCHAFF/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
I did have a sense of despair about the direction my court was going.
It’s not an option to fall into despair. I have to get up and keep fighting.
It may take time but I believe we will get back on the right track.
— Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in comments on given on how she felt at the conclusion of the Supreme Court’s last term, given during a speaking engagement via video feed at the Association of American Law Schools’ annual meeting in San Diego earlier this week. Although Sotomayor never mentioned the Dobbs case by name, where the Court’s conservative majority overturned the constitutional right to abortion, she described herself as “shell-shocked” and “deeply sad” about where the high court was headed. Sotomayor said she will continue to write dissents and “tilt at windmills” so long as she remains on the Court.
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