Speaking to students at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law on Monday, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor confessed that every conservative Court victory “traumatizes” her. “I live in frustration. 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.” Is this something a Supreme Court judge should be saying in public? Hans von Spakovsky, Senior Legal Fellow with the Heritage Foundation, joins Newell to talk about the repercussions of that comment.
