Justice Sonia Sotomayor — the self-proclaimed “wise Latina” who has spent her entire career lecturing the rest of us about empathy, compassion, and understanding the struggles of ordinary Americans — just got caught on tape mocking Brett Kavanaugh for being too privileged to know anyone who works by the hour.
Ouch! Turns out the most empathetic justice on the Supreme Court is actually a snob who looks down on her own colleague. And she had to issue a public apology for it. In writing. To the whole country.
Here’s what happened. Sotomayor was speaking at the University of Kansas on April 7 — one of those cozy campus events where liberal justices get treated like rock stars by adoring academics — and she decided to take a swipe at Kavanaugh. She told the crowd that he came from privilege and “probably doesn’t really know any person who works by the hour.”
The crowd loved it, naturally. Cheap shots at conservative justices always kill at university events. Standing ovation. Very brave.
Except there’s a problem. Brett Kavanaugh grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, went to Georgetown Prep on a scholarship-assisted basis, worked his tail off through Yale, and has coached girls’ basketball in his community for years. The man has spent more time around ordinary working families than Sotomayor has spent outside of Manhattan cocktail parties. But sure — HE’S the one who’s out of touch.
Meanwhile, Sotomayor — who reportedly needs a full-time staff of assistants, has had her book deals generate millions, and has been a federal judge since the Clinton administration — apparently considers herself the voice of the working class. The woman hasn’t punched a time clock since the 1980s, but she’s going to lecture Kavanaugh about knowing hourly workers.
(This is like Nancy Pelosi explaining what a gallon of milk costs. Some people have been in the bubble so long they’ve forgotten there IS a bubble.)
The backlash was swift and brutal. Within days, the story was everywhere, and it wasn’t playing the way Sotomayor’s fan club expected. Turns out most Americans don’t love it when a Supreme Court justice uses a public appearance to trash-talk a colleague with an elitist cheap shot. Who knew!
By April 10 — just three days later — Sotomayor released a formal apology admitting her remarks were “inappropriate” and “hurtful.” She said she regretted the comments and acknowledged they didn’t reflect the respect she has for Kavanaugh.
Total capitulation.
Now, we should note something important here. When was the last time a sitting Supreme Court justice had to publicly apologize for being a jerk to another justice? Go ahead, think about it. We’ll wait.
You can’t think of one because it basically never happens. The Supreme Court operates on a code of mutual respect — at least publicly — specifically because the institution depends on it. Sotomayor didn’t just embarrass herself. She embarrassed the entire Court. And she did it for what? A cheap laugh at a university event?
But here’s the part that really stings for the Left. For years — YEARS — Democrats and their media allies have painted Kavanaugh as the privileged frat boy who doesn’t understand regular people. They dragged him through the most disgusting confirmation hearing in modern history, accused him of things that were never proven, and tried to destroy his family on national television. And after all of that, it’s SOTOMAYOR who had to apologize for being elitist.
Not the conservative. The liberal. The one who wrote a memoir called “My Beloved World” about growing up in the Bronx projects. The one who was supposed to be the Court’s connection to real America. SHE was the one who got caught looking down her nose at a colleague for not being fancy enough to understand working people.
You really cannot write comedy this good.
Kavanaugh, for his part, handled it with class — because of course he did. No public statements, no clap-backs, no dramatic press conferences. He just let Sotomayor twist in the wind until she did the right thing. That’s what dignity looks like.
So the next time some progressive law professor tries to tell you that conservative justices are the ones who are out of touch with ordinary Americans, just remind them of this week. The “empathetic” justice got caught being a snob, and the “privileged” justice turned out to be the adult in the room.
Welcome to the Supreme Court, where the “wise Latina” owes the frat boy an apology. What a time to be alive.
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