The liberal-leaning supreme court justice Sonia Sotomayor said on Thursday that US supreme court “mistakes” in high-profile cases can be corrected over time – as she adopted a positive tone ahead of a decision in which the court’s conservative majority is expected to reverse the constitutional right to abortion in America.
Sotomayor, speaking in Washington DC at the annual meeting of a liberal legal group, did not directly address last month’s publication of a leaked draft opinion in an abortion case out of Mississippi that includes a request to overturn the pivotal 1973 Roe v Wade ruling, or any of the court’s other current cases.
