Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor visited Harvard University last week to accept the Radcliffe Medal, which, says Harvard, "is presented annually to an individual who has had a transformative impact on society."

In 2018, Harvard gave the award to Hillary Clinton -- the former secretary of state who lost the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump. In 2015, they gave it to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- who was then Sotomayor's Supreme Court colleague and ideological compatriot. In 2009, they gave it to then-retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor -- who co-authored the court's 1992 opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which upheld Roe v. Wade in declaring abortion a constitutional right.

In accepting her own Radcliffe Medal, Sotomayor told the audience at Harvard that she was saddened by some of the decisions the Supreme Court had made during her tenure.

"There are days that I've come to my office after an announcement of a case and closed my door and cried," Sotomayor said, according to The New York Times. "There have been those days. And there's likely to be more."

"There are moments when I'm deeply, deeply sad," Sotomayor said. "There are moments when, yes, even I feel desperation. We all do. But you have to own it, you have to accept it, you have to shed tears and then you have to wipe them and get up."

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