The US supreme court justice Sonia Sotomayor has said that lawyers should stand up and fight in battles faced by the nation’s legal system, amid attacks on federal judges and Donald Trump’s targeting of elite law firms in executive orders.
“Our job is to stand up for people who can’t do it themselves. And our job is to be the champion of lost causes,” she said on Thursday. “But right now, we can’t lose the battles we are facing. And we need trained and passionate and committed lawyers to fight this fight.”
