Justice Sonia Sotomayor reflected on her time on the Supreme Court on Friday, admitting that some of the high court’s rulings brought her to tears.
“There are days when I come into my office after a case is announced, I close the door and cry,” Sotomayor said Friday at an event in her honor at Harvard University.
“There were those days. And there will probably be more,” she added in the speech, according to the The New York Times.
The Harvard event was held as the Supreme Court approached the final weeks of its term. The court is expected to issue opinions on several high-profile cases, including whether the former President is immune from prosecution for allegations against him for allegedly working to overturn the 2020 election and concerns surrounding the use of abortion pills such as mifepristone .
Sotomayor, the conservative-leaning Supreme Court’s most senior liberal justice, did not discuss a specific case in her speech.
She was appointed to the nation’s highest court in 2009 under former President Obama’s nomination. Since then, she said she has had disagreements with fellow judges.
“Disagreeing about ideas does not make another human being bad or evil,” she said, noting that it is difficult.
She also admitted that the disagreements were emotional, but the Times noted that her tone was upbeat even as she expressed frustration.
“There are times when I feel deeply, deeply sad,” Sotomayor said. “There are times when, yes, even I feel despair.”
“We all know. But you have to own it, you have to accept it, you have to shed the tears and then you have to wipe them away and get up,” the judge added.
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