Sotomayor blames colleagues for slew of Supreme Court emergency appeals

“We’ve done it to ourselves,” the justice said during an appearance Thursday.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks at the Supreme Court on Dec. 18, 2023. | Jacquelyn Martin/AP

The Supreme Court has itself to blame for the flood of emergency appeals it’s now receiving, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Thursday.

“We’ve done it to ourselves,” Sotomayor said during an appearance at the University of Alabama Law School. “The newspapers are filled with reports about how many emergency motions we are receiving. It’s unprecedented in the court’s history.”

The Trump administration has filed about 30 emergency applications with the Supreme Court over the past 15 months, winning more than 80 percent of them. Many of those decisions split the court, 6-3, along ideological lines.

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