Justice Sotomayor gives pep talk to progressives while praising Clarence Thomas

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'If it doesn't kill me, it makes me stronger. That is what adversity does to you.'

Sotomayor did, however, discuss how infamous and unjust court decisions can later be corrected, citing the Dred Scott case of 1857, which held that enslaved or free black Americans could not be citizens. She noted that it took eight years and a Civil War to rectify, but that ultimately it was overturned.

"We have to have continuing faith in the court system, in our system of government, in our ability -- I hope not through war -- but through constitutional amendment, to change in legislation, towards lobbying, towards continuing the battle each day to regain the public's confidence that we as a court, as an institution have not lost our way," Sotomayor said.

"We as a society, have taken steps some may disagree with. But if we disagree, we will continue to battle to do justice," she said. Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor sits during a group photo of the Justices at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on April 23, 2021.in the abortion case, cited the Scott case to justify overturning Roe, arguing that the 1973 landmark opinion was similarly, in his view, wrongly decided from the start.

 

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