Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor bucked tradition and decorum when she recently took a public swipe at a fellow justice.
Sotomayor made controversial remarks while she was speaking at an event hosted by the University of Kansas School of Law on Tuesday, according to Bloomberg Law.
While the 71-year-old Sotomayor didn’t mention any of her fellow justices by name, it was clear that she was speaking about Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
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“I had a colleague in that case who wrote, you know, these are only temporary stops,” Sotomayor said.
That was a clear reference to when the justices paused lower courts trying to block Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from working, with a concurrence written by Kavanaugh.
Sotomayor then jabbed Kavanaugh’s upbringing, questioning whether or not her fellow justice knew anything about blue-collar woes.
“This is from a man whose parents were professionals,” she said. “And probably doesn’t really know
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