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General Category => National/Breaking News => SCOTUS News => Topic started by: corbe on October 21, 2022, 03:20:29 pm

Title: Sotomayor on Clarence Thomas: ‘I believe not everyone can reach their bootstraps’
Post by: corbe on October 21, 2022, 03:20:29 pm
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/ (https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3698212-sotomayor-on-clarence-thomas-i-believe-not-everyone-can-reach-their-bootstraps/)
Title: Re: Sotomayor on Clarence Thomas: ‘I believe not everyone can reach their bootstraps’
Post by: Kamaji on October 21, 2022, 03:29:04 pm
:mauslaff:

Self-serving pablum and mush.
Title: Re: Sotomayor on Clarence Thomas: ‘I believe not everyone can reach their bootstraps’
Post by: Hoodat on October 21, 2022, 03:57:19 pm
What a bitch!
Title: Re: Sotomayor on Clarence Thomas: ‘I believe not everyone can reach their bootstraps’
Post by: Hoodat on October 21, 2022, 04:08:29 pm
Quote
Sotomayor:  "We have civil rights because men and women died for them."

We have civil rights because Republicans fought for them.
Title: Re: Sotomayor on Clarence Thomas: ‘I believe not everyone can reach their bootstraps’
Post by: rustynail on October 21, 2022, 04:11:17 pm
Soto can't even see her boots.