Justice Sonia Sotomayor used an appearance this week to suggest that Justice Brett Kavanaugh is an out-of-touch elitist. The comments were a disturbing departure from the tradition of collegiality and civility on the court. It was unfair and unwarranted...
Contempt of Court: Justice Sotomayor Suggests Justice Kavanaugh is an Uninformed ElitistJustice Brett Kavanaugh is accustomed to unrelenting personal attacks from the left that began with his nomination to the Court. This week, however, the ad hominem insults came not from cable progr…https://jonathanturley.org/2026/04/10/contempt-of-court-justice-sotomayor-strikes-out-at-justice-kavanaugh-as-an-elitist/
...I have long criticized the growing number of public statements by justices on controversial subjects and cases, including Justice Sotomayor. However, this appearance represented a new low in lashing out at a colleague as effectively blinded by his own privilege.
...Justice Sotomayor is not someone whom I view as gratuitously rude or cruel. I believe that she values collegiality and the Court as an institution. However, this was another injudicious moment during public events. She should correct this statement at the earliest opportunity.
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Backhand. She should keep her mouth shut. She supported 0care, which among other things, put us under international health codes, according to my doc, who retired when 0care came in.
She voted for 0bergefell and supports affirmative action and dissented against limiting Affirmative Action.
And: “The ACA took this terrible broken health care system and added a lot of burden onto physicians,” Hill says. “We’re losing the focus of who we’re supposed to be taking care of: the patient. You’re not my customer anymore. Now, I’ve got to respond to the federal bureaucracy, not you.” article in CNN.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/13/health/obamacare-doctors-opinions-aca