Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Tuesday that Americans "can't afford to despair" in the wake of Donald Trump's election as president.
Speaking to an audience at a Capitol Hill cultural center, Sotomayor said the nation can't afford for a president to fail, but stressed that "every person has an obligation both to continue being heard and to continue doing the right thing."
The justice was responding to a question from radio host Bill Press about whether Trump's victory made her feel apprehensive. She declined to answer directly, but said people "can't afford to give up on pursuing the values that we and others have fought so hard to achieve."
"So for me this is a challenge," she said. "I will continue doing what I think is the right thing."
Sotomayor spoke as protesters in several cities — including the nation's capital — have marched against Trump's win. Demonstrators have condemned Trump's behavior toward women and his stand on immigration and civil liberties among other things.
"It is true for those who tell us that we have to support that which he does which is right, and help guide him to those right decisions whichever way we can want to do that," she said of Trump.
Sotomayor is the first of President Barack Obama's two appointees to the high court. Part of the court's liberal wing, she is known as a powerful critic of police misconduct and a strong defender of affirmative action.
Asked whether the court has been handicapped having only eight justices since the death in February of Justice Antonin Scalia, she said it's "not an ideal situation." But Sotomayor said the justices worked hard to come to a consensus when they could and split 4-4 in only four cases.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/sonia-sotomayor-trump-despair/2016/11/15/id/759088/
The wise Latina says a couple of times that she will do what is 'right'.
Gee, I thought she took an oath to do what the Constitution says and not judge whether it is 'right' or 'wrong'.
This is the same 'judge' who said that a “court of appeals is where policy is made.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfC99LrrM2Q
