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Published: January 6, 2023

US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor felt ‘shell-shock’, ‘despair’ when Roe v. Wade was overturned

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Fri Jan 6, 2023 – 1:29 pm EST

WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – The overturn of Roe v. Wade gave left-wing U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor a “sense of despair” for America, the pro-abortion jurist declared during a recent public event.

Reuters reports that during a conversation with University of California- Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky for the Association of American Law Schools’ annual meeting, Sotomayor said she “did have a sense of despair about the direction my court was going” with the conclusion of the Supreme Court’s latest term, the biggest decision of which was the June 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling that overturned Roe and restored states’ ability to decide their own abortion laws for the first time in nearly half a century.

Sotomayor, a self-described “wise Latina” appointed by former President Barack Obama, added that she felt “shell-shocked” and “deeply sad,” and found herself “tilt[ing] at windmills” in writing dissents to conservative majority opinions. But “it’s not an option to fall into despair,” Sotomayor said. “I have to get up and keep fighting.”

At the same time, the left-wing justice told the audience that “it may take time

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