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“Our job is to stand up for people who can’t do it themselves.
And our job is to be the champion of lost causes,” she said.
"But right now, we can’t lose the battles we are facing. And we
need trained and passionate and committed lawyers to fight this
fight.”
Sotomayor didn’t mention the president as she spoke at an event
in the nation's capital hosted by a section of the American Bar
Association, which has also been targeted by Trump.
The liberal justice's remarks come a day after conservative
Chief Justice John Roberts defended judicial independence as
necessary to “check the excesses of the Congress or the
executive” at an appearance in Buffalo, New York.
Last week, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson forcefully condemned
attacks on judges in her own speech. She did not mention Trump
by name, but called the threats and harassment “an attack on
democracy.”
The nation's highest court is weighing a growing number of
emergency appeals from the Trump administration as his sweeping
conservative agenda faces pushback in lower courts.
The president and his allies have railed at judges who have
blocked parts of Trump’s agenda, sometimes with highly personal
attacks. Trump has also targeted elite law firms over work he
disagrees with, leading some to fight back in court and others
to strike deals with him.
The ABA has sued Trump over federal grant terminations and Trump
has threatened the organization's role in accrediting law
schools over its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
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