{"id":1120,"date":"2026-04-18T16:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2026-04-18T16:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:51:12","slug":"supreme-court-justice-apologizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/supreme-court-justice-apologizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Justice Apologizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/supreme-court\/justice-sonia-sotomayor-apologizes-brett-kavanaugh-hurtful-remarks-rcna332066\">issuing a public apology this week<\/a> regarding her comments about her colleague Justice Brett Kavanagh. During a discussion at the University of Kansas last week, she had criticized Justice Kavanagh\u2019s reasoning in a case last year involving ICE agent stops (without naming him). She believes the stops are unconstitutionally intrusive, as explained in her dissent, but Justice Kavanagh had approved them as \u201ctemporary stops.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is from a man whose parents were professionals. And probably doesn\u2019t really know any person who works by the hour,\u201d Justice Sotomayor said of Justice Kavanagh.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Justice Sotomayor said in a statement issued by the court, \u201cAt a recent appearance at the University of Kansas School of Law, I referred to a disagreement with one of my colleagues in a prior case, but I made remarks that were inappropriate. I regret my hurtful comments. I have apologized to my colleague.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s rare for a Supreme Court justice to publicly criticize a fellow justice personally, but rarer still for one to apologize for doing so.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a good apology. It doesn\u2019t go into detail \u2013 it doesn\u2019t even name Justice Kavanagh&#8211;, but we the public aren\u2019t entitled to that. She acknowledges that she had hurt a colleague, and \u00a0expresses regret. Perhaps most significantly, she says she has already apologized personally to him, which indicates that she understands that this was both a public and a private offense. Well done.<\/p>\n<p>I might like to hear her apologize for something else: whether any of the justices personally know any hourly workers should be irrelevant when determining the constitutionality of government actions. As long as she construes the Constitution as a jurist, no apology needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor for issuing a public apology this week regarding her comments about her colleague Justice Brett Kavanagh. During a discussion at the University of Kansas last week, she had criticized Justice Kavanagh\u2019s reasoning in a case last year involving ICE agent stops (without naming him). She believes the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}