Liberal US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has admitted she sometimes weeps after losses on major cases before the conservative-led panel.
3 Justice Sonia Sotomayor has been under pressure from progressives to resign so that Democrats can preserve her seat.
Sotomayor, one of three liberal justices on the high court, spoke at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study while receiving the Radcliffe Medal on Friday.
She declined to specify which cases in particular drove her to tears, but she underscored the need to keep fighting, even in moments of despair.
You have to shed the tears, and then you have to wipe them and get up and fight some more.”.
During those January remarks, Sotomayor also spoke about the demanding workload that justices on the nation’s highest court face.
Sotomayor was appointed to the bench by former President Barack Obama in 2009. »