Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor Suggests Court Is Overturning Precedents Too Quickly

The justice made her comments at a Kentucky law school while public approval of the Court remains low.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor poses for a photo next to a bronze bust of herself after it was unveiled at the Bronx Terminal Market in New York, on Sept. 8, 2022. Bebeto Matthews/Reuters

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the conservative majority on the Court is overturning so many longstanding precedents so quickly that public confidence in it is flagging.

“I think my Court would probably gather more public support if it went a little more slowly in undoing precedent,” Sotomayor said on Feb. 5 in remarks at the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law in Kentucky.