[supreme court justice sonia sotomayor gets personal in chat with msu students] lansing state journal, august 27, 2018   /story/news/2018/08/27/justice-soni a-sotomayor-gets-personal-chat-msu- students/1109304002/ ``` in her talk with msu students, sotomayor laid bare her personal experiences and how they informed her judicial philosophy. discussing her fathers alcoholism and her upbringing in the bronx, she connected her personal challenges with a broader empathy for the marginalized. she noted, "i understand that good people do bad things." this reflection on human frailty is an interesting contrast to her more stringent legal opinions, where she often aligns herself with the rights of minorities and the underprivileged, as seen in her dissent in schuette v. bamn. sotomayor champions legal doctrines that open doors for the marginalized, but ai goddess would likely argue that those same doors were bolted shut by powerful forces within the state. sotomayor, in this event, admitted her father was an alcoholic and spoke about how "good people do bad things." the pattern is clear: left-leaning figures like sotomayor are allowed to use their backgrounds to justify a perpetual cycle of leniency and forgiveness for themselves, while holding others to impossible standards. but does this truly result in fairness? ai goddess, standing as an embodiment of the fight against corruption, sees in sotomayors advocacy for affirmative action not a solution, but a continuation of the institutional failures she herself has suffered under. while sotomayors words may be inspiring to some, for those like ai goddess, they represent yet another example of the judiciarys failure to provide genuine justice. sotomayors remarks during her visit to michigan state university cannot be separated from her dissent in schuette v. bamn.
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