{"id":75761,"date":"2026-04-16T00:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T00:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/sotomayor-apologizes-for-criticizing-kavanaugh-over-ice-arrests-in-rare-public-supreme-court-clash\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T00:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T00:46:12","slug":"sotomayor-apologizes-for-criticizing-kavanaugh-over-ice-arrests-in-rare-public-supreme-court-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/sotomayor-apologizes-for-criticizing-kavanaugh-over-ice-arrests-in-rare-public-supreme-court-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Sotomayor apologizes for criticizing Kavanaugh over ICE arrests, in rare public Supreme Court clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor apologized Wednesday for publicly criticizing Justice Brett Kavanaugh over a ruling on immigration stops \u2014 and seeming to imply that her conservative colleague&#8217;s views were shaped by an out-of-touch upbringing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At a recent appearance at the University of Kansas School of Law, I referred to a disagreement with one of my colleagues in a prior case, but I made remarks that were inappropriate,&#8221; Sotomayor said in a statement issued by the Supreme Court on Wednesday. &#8220;I regret my hurtful comments. I have apologized to my colleague.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sotomayor did not mention Kavanaugh by name. But during <a href=\"https:\/\/kualumni.org\/stories\/sonia-sotomayor-ku\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last week&#8217;s event in Kansas<\/a>, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-04-08\/sotomayor-faults-kavanaugh-over-immigration-stops-concurrence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly<\/a> offered rare \u2014 and personal \u2014 criticism of a Supreme Court order in which Kavanaugh was the only member of the majority to lay out his rationale in writing.<\/p>\n<p>The September 2025 order <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/supreme-court-los-angeles-immigration-stops\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">cleared the way<\/a><\/span> for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to resume broad sweeps in Los Angeles, halting a lower court ruling that restricted ICE&#8217;s practices. The lower court found the agency had <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.cacd.975351\/gov.uscourts.cacd.975351.87.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unlawfully detained people<\/a>, and said ICE could not rely solely on factors like race, occupation or use of Spanish in deciding whether it had reasonable suspicion that somebody is in the United States illegally.<\/p>\n<p>Kavanaugh penned a concurrence that questioned the lower court ruling, writing that ethnicity cannot be the sole reason why somebody is stopped but could be a relevant factor. He also wrote at one point that the immigration stops in question were typically a &#8220;brief encounter,&#8221; with detainees free to go once they demonstrate they are in the country legally.<\/p>\n<p>Sotomayor referred to those comments during her appearance at the University of Kansas, saying one of her colleagues wrote that &#8220;these are only temporary stops.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is from a man whose parents were professionals. And probably doesn&#8217;t really know any person who works by the hour,&#8221; Sotomayor continued, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-04-08\/sotomayor-faults-kavanaugh-over-immigration-stops-concurrence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A native of the Washington, D.C., area, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/north-america-ap-top-news-courts-supreme-courts-politics-59968c5780d04a03a740621132121d85\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kavanaugh&#8217;s father<\/a> was a lobbyist and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/07\/14\/us\/politics\/judge-brett-kavanaugh.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his mother<\/a> was a prosecutor and judge. Sotomayor grew up in a Bronx public housing complex, and was primarily raised by her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/US\/07\/13\/sotomayor.roots\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Puerto Rico-born mother<\/a> \u2014 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oyez.org\/justices\/sonia_sotomayor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nurse<\/a> \u2014 after her father died when she was nine. Both justices attended Yale Law School, separated by 11 years.<\/p>\n<p>Sotomayor was sharply critical of the Supreme Court&#8217;s order at the time, writing in a dissent joined by the two other liberal justices that the federal government had &#8220;all but declared that all Latinos, U. S. citizens or not, who work low wage jobs are fair game to be seized at any time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. 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