Liberal Justice Sotomayor Says Some Decisions by Her Conservative Colleagues on the Supreme Court Left Her in Tears

‘There have been those days. And there are likely to be more,’ she says at an event at Harvard University.

AP/Jeff Roberson, file
Justice Sonia Sotomayor on April 5, 2022, at Washington University at St. Louis. AP/Jeff Roberson, file

Justice Sonia Sotomayor says she sometimes cries after the Supreme Court issues its decisions, and that it is “likely” she will be crying more in the future because of her colleagues. 

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