February 2, 2024
Leftists want to push Sonia Sotomayor off the Supreme Court
By Andrea Widburg
There are two views of the Constitution and the Supreme Court’s role in interpreting it. One view is that the Constitution means what it says and can be changed only through the document’s explicit amendment process. The other view is that the Constitution means whatever the left wants it to say. That view means leftists on the Supreme Court, if they’re a majority, have a free hand to amend the Constitution unilaterally and to control both Congress and the White House. The latter view has been remarkably successful in remaking (and damaging) America. Sonia Sotomayor has always been a stalwart member of the leftist cadre, but now, with a Trump presidency possible, many leftists have decided that it’s time for her to go.
Sotomayor made the news a few days ago when she admitted in an interview that she is struggling with those justices who believe that the Constitution, like any contract, must be interpreted, first, according to its explicit terms and, second, according to the signatories’ understanding and intentions. Well, that’s not exactly what she said, but I think it’s what she meant:
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Monday she feels daily “frustration” as conservative justices move the country to the ideological right.
In an appearance at the University of California, Berkely School of Law, Sotomayor was asked how she copes with the consistently conservative rulings from the court.
“Every loss truly traumatizes me,” but “I get up the next morning,” she said in response to the question, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. The crowd — about 1,300 students — applauded.
In her remarks, she criticized her “originalist colleagues” whom she said have come up with “new ways to interpret the Constitution,” changing rulings “that some of us believed were well established,” the Chronicle reported.
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