Reuters
Liberal Justice Sotomayor says U.S. Supreme Court ‘mistakes’ can be fixed
Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor said on Thursday the U.S. Supreme Court’s “mistakes” in high-profile cases can be corrected over time as she adopted a positive tone ahead of a decision in which its conservative majority is expected to curtail abortion rights. Sotomayor, speaking in Washington at the annual meeting of a liberal legal group, did not directly address last month’s publication of a leaked draft opinion in the abortion case or any of the court’s other current cases. The leaked draft ruling, authored by conservative Justice Samuel Alito, indicated that the court’s conservative majority is set to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide.
