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- Supreme Court justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan gave remarks about their experiences on the nation’s highest court, and talked specifically about the idea of political bias on the bench.
- Justice Sotomayor said “we have to rise above partisanship in our personal relationships.”
- Sotomayor spoke broadly about how Supreme Court justices need to always rise above the political fray for the sake of the court’s integrity, and said that the effort begins with how justices interact with each other.
- “We have to treat each other with respect and dignity, and with a sense of amicability that the rest of the world doesn’t often share,” she said.
- That conversation is happening in the backdrop of what has been a tumultuous vetting process for their likely future colleague, Brett Kavanaugh, who is expected to be confirmed to the court after weeks of sexual-misconduct allegations that culminated in a public outburst during which Kavanaugh attacked Democrats.
Supreme Court justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan gave remarks about their experiences on the nation’s highest court, and talked specifically about the idea of political bias on the bench.
“There are structures within the court — not the least of which is our modern understanding among what are now eight justices — that we have to rise above partisanship in our personal relationships,” Justice Sotomayor said at Princeton University on Friday.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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