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.
The justice received a medal from the school for public service.
Public approval of the High Court stood at 44 percent in September 2024, with 51 percent disapproving, according to Gallup polling.
Court approval has been underwater since September 2021 when it was 40 percent to 53 percent. President Donald Trump’s third conservative appointee, Amy Coney Barrett, joined the Court in October 2020….