“The fact that you have a sitting Supreme Court justice [Sonia Sotomayor] saying we have to ‘Stand up’ and ‘Fight this fight’ … is reinforcing the criticism that judicial overreach is occurring and that the judiciary is being used as a political weapon rather than the judiciary being used as a neutral arbiter of the law,” The Federalist’s Brianna Lyman said on The Bottom Line. “And the fact that [Justice Sotomayor] said that we have to fight for ‘lost causes’ — the role of a lawyer is to zealously advocate for a client, of course. But the role of a judge is to zealously advocate for the Constitution, and those aren’t always the same thing.”
Lyman: Sotomayor’s Comments Only Reinforce Criticism That Judiciary Is Being Used As Political Weapon
