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Sotomayor on Clarence Thomas: ‘I believe not everyone can reach their bootstraps’

BY CHLOE FOLMAR - 10/21/22 8:07 AM ET


Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Thursday said that fellow Justice Clarence Thomas “cares about legal issues differently than me,” adding that she thinks “not everyone” can pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

Sotomayor, speaking at Chicago’s Roosevelt University, praised her colleague and said that he “cares about people.”

“He cares about legal issues differently than me,” the liberal Sotomayor said of her conservative colleague, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

“Clarence, who grew up very poor, believes that everyone is capable of pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. I believe not everyone can reach their bootstraps.”

Sotomayor, an Obama nominee, said she tries to “find the good in everybody.”

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https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3698212-sotomayor-on-clarence-thomas-i-believe-not-everyone-can-reach-their-bootstraps/
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Self-serving pablum and mush.

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What a bitch!
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Sotomayor:  "We have civil rights because men and women died for them."

We have civil rights because Republicans fought for them.
If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

-Dwight Eisenhower-


"The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government ... it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government."

-Ayn Rand-

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Soto can't even see her boots.