In a spilling of the court\u2019s divisions in public, Sotomayor had criticized Kavanaugh over a dissenting ruling on ICE raids<\/p>\n
Sonia Sotomayor, a US supreme court justice, issued an apology on Wednesday for her recent criticism of fellow justice Brett Kavanaugh, an unusual public mea culpa that underscores the continuing divisions within the nation\u2019s top judicial body over its direction and actions in high-profile cases.<\/p>\n
Sotomayor had criticized Kavanaugh at an event in Kansas last week for an opinion he wrote in September concurring with the court\u2019s decision backing roving immigration raids in California. Kavanaugh is one of the court\u2019s six conservative justices, while Sotomayor is the senior member of the court\u2019s three-justice liberal bloc.<\/p>\n
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