Sotomayor tells on herself, admits she is 'traumatize[d]' every time conservatives win a court case: 'I live in frustration'

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told law students on Monday that she lives in "frustration" over rulings from the high court's conservative majority.

Under former President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court experienced a generational ideological shift because Trump was able to appoint three conservative-leaning justices.

Under that 6-3 majority, the conservative-leaning justices have protected Second Amendment rights, rolled back affirmative action, and protected unborn lives by overturning Roe v. Wade. These decisions were not born out of ideological political bias. Rather, fundamental differences regarding the interpretation of the law and the role of government undergird the decisions.

Sotomayor, speaking to students at UC-Berkeley School of Law, admitted that "every loss" leaves her "traumatize[d]."

"I live in frustration," Sotomayor admitted. "And as you heard, every loss truly traumatizes me in my stomach and in my heart. But I have to get up the next morning and keep on fighting."

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The court's senior liberal-leaning justice claimed her "originalist colleagues" — referring to the court's conservative-leaning justices — are coming up with "new ways to interpret the Constitution" and thus are changing some interpretations "that some of us believed were well established," the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Sotomayor, however, didn't provide any examples of these "new interpretations."

Differences aside, Sotomayor reaffirmed that she and her colleagues are friends. She even went out of her way to praise Justice Clarence Thomas, who she said "is the only justice who knows the name of every employee on the Supreme Court."

Sotomayor is not the first liberal-leaning justice to defend Thomas.

As progressive activists targeted Thomas last year with allegations of ethical violations — none of which stuck — former Justice Stephen Breyer spoke out in defense of Thomas.

"As far as I’m concerned, I sat next to him on the bench for 28 years. I like him. He’s a friend of mine. I’ve never seen him do anything underhanded or say anything underhanded," Breyer said. "My personal point of view is he’s a man of integrity."

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