Losing can ‘get frustrating’ says liberal Justice Sotomayor
Associated PressWASHINGTON — Acknowledging the limits of her own influence on the law as a member of the Supreme Court’s liberal minority, Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday encouraged citizens to work to change laws they may disagree with, like a recent Texas law that limits access to abortions. Sotomayor, a nominee of President Barack Obama who has been on the court since 2009, added that at least she can dissent and “explain how I feel.” After a summer break, Sotomayor and her colleagues are about to begin hearing arguments in person again next week after more than a year and a half of phone sessions because of the coronavirus pandemic. Possibly foreshadowing what the liberal justices’ role might be this session, she said Justice Elena Kagan, another member of the court’s liberal minority, has a better answer than she does to that question. “Justice Kagan believes that the best way to influence the majority is to try to narrow their holdings, to try to figure out how to keep the impact of a holding as narrow as possible,” Sotomayor said, so that there is an avenue later to “change the direction of a bad ruling.”
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