Sotomayor on Clarence Thomas: ‘I believe not everyone can reach their bootstraps’
BY CHLOE FOLMAR - 10/21/22 8:07 AM ETSupreme 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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