Justice Sotomayor Says She Did Not Sign Up for This

A little over a year ago, Associate Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor complained about her workload – which was pretty maddening, considering she wasn’t one the Americans forced to take on second job keep bankruptcy at bay during the era of Bidenflation. She said:

Cases are bigger. They’re more demanding. The number of amici are greater, and you know that our emergency calendar is so much more active. I’m tired.

Maybe she doesn’t realize that “lifetime appointment” is not the same as “lifetime sentence.” She can retire anytime she wants to. Maybe Justice Ginsberg missed that legal nuance in her employment arrangement too.

So, what really chapped Sotomayor? That her summer vacation was disrupted. She continued:

There used to be a time when we had a good chunk of the summer break. Not anymore. The emergency calendar is busy almost on a weekly basis.

Good grief! The unreasonableness of her employer! She must work … all year. Maybe she should have become a school teacher like Dr. Jill. Needless to say, the rest of us aren’t terribly sympathetic about not having the summer off. The lucky members of the private sector may get a few weeks of paid vacation each year. The self-employed or those working multiple part-time jobs must take time off without pay if they want to take the kiddies to Disneyland. If we demanded paid summers off, we’d get unpaid permanent time off.

Ironically, what Justice Sotomayor is griping about, is the outcome of bad Supreme Court decision making. When I was 15 it was my job to keep the grass mowed. During one summer I procrastinated until the lawn was completely overgrown. I finally took care of it when my parents threatened to make my social life untenable. To my chagrin, I discovered that my dereliction had turned a 2-hour job into a 2-day job. It taught me a valuable life lesson that our “Wise Latina” on the bench apparently never learned: Ignoring one’s chores doesn’t make them go away, it eventually makes them unmanageable.

When Chief Justice Roberts insisted that “There are not Trump judges or Obama judges” he was denying the weeds which were clearly growing in his yard, and avoiding his chores. I don’t recall Sotomayor nagging him to do his job – maintaining the judiciaries compliance with the Constitution. Well, the weeds have grown, and the consequences of Supreme Court dereliction are becoming evident.

Now the lower courts are so out of control, district judges have decided to declare the other two branches of government to be inferior. They’re legislating from the bench and dictating how the President may conduct international affairs, lead the executive branch, and ensure our national security.

Judge shopping has become “a thing” because there really are “Trump judges and Obama judges” – making decisions based on ideology rather than the law. The injunctions they are issuing against the executive branch have become an actual constitutional crisis.

I have no doubt that if another 9/11 attack were to happen, some district judge from Hawaii or Washington would enjoin President Trump from droning the terrorists, simply because he’s not President Harris. They’ll do it because Chief Justice Roberts didn’t do his chores, and Associate Justice Sotomayor didn’t nag him enough.

During the first Trump administration, there were 86 nationwide injunctions issued by district judges who had been “shopped” by the Democrats. So far in the second Trump administration, 17 injunctions have been issued in just the first two months. At that pace, rogue judges will issue 408 nationwide injunctions by the end of President Trump’s time in office, because nobody has slapped them on the wrist yet. If Justice Sotomayor thought her workload was unreasonable last year: “Buckle up, you ain’t seen nothin yet.”

I hope our dedicated public servants in black robes occupying the building with “Equal Justice Under Law” laughably inscribed on the front, are cancelling their summer vacations. They’ve been shirking their chores since 2017, and now they need to get the yard under control again. And if they don’t get it done this summer, they may even need to work overtime next year – poor children.

Author Bio: John Green is a retired engineer and political refugee from Minnesota, now residing in Idaho. He spent his career designing complex defense systems, developing high performance organizations, and doing corporate strategic planning. He is a contributor to American Thinker, The American Spectator, and the American Free News Network. He can be reached at greenjeg@gmail.com.

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