BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - The Latest on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s appearance at the University of California, Berkeley (all times local):
6 p.m.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says she is saddened to see that many people have lost confidence in judges and believe they are political.
Sotomayor made the comments on Thursday while taking questions from law students at the University of California, Berkeley.
She said judges try to be fair and impartial and don’t have rigid beliefs they apply to every case.
Sotomayor did not mention President Donald Trump’s nominee to the court, Neil Gorsuch. Her comments lamenting the perception of judges made no reference to the president’s attacks on the judiciary and her speech was uneventful.
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2:30 p.m.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is meeting with law students and law school faculty at the University of California, Berkeley.
Sotomayor is scheduled to speak and take questions from law students at a forum later Thursday.
The event comes as confirmation hearings are set to begin later this month for President Donald Trump’s nominee to the court, Neil Gorsuch. Gorsuch would fill the seat that opened up when Justice Antonin Scalia died.
The court currently has only eight justices.
Sotomayor was nominated by President Barack Obama in 2009 and became the court’s first Hispanic justice when the U.S. Senate confirmed her later that year.
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