{"id":141073,"date":"2026-01-06T18:44:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T02:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/06\/amy-coney-barrett-life-on-the-supreme-court-is-an-arranged-marriage\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T18:44:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T02:44:41","slug":"amy-coney-barrett-life-on-the-supreme-court-is-an-arranged-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/06\/amy-coney-barrett-life-on-the-supreme-court-is-an-arranged-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Coney Barrett: Life On The Supreme Court Is An \u2018Arranged Marriage\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

We are nine people who are in an arranged marriage. We don\u2019t pick our colleagues, but we\u2019re going to be colleagues for a very, very long time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i> Justice Amy Coney Barrett<\/a>, in comments given during a recent fireside chat<\/a> at Notre Dame Law School, where she likened her relationship to her fellow justices on the Supreme Court bench to an \u201carranged marriage.\u201d Barrett went on to say, \u201cYou need to always assume the best about those with whom you disagree. If you are looking for bad faith, you\u2019ll find it. Assume the best, until proven otherwise.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Amy Coney Barrett: Life On The Supreme Court Is An \u2018Arranged Marriage\u2019<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

We are nine people who are in an arranged marriage. We don\u2019t pick our colleagues, but we\u2019re going to be colleagues for a very, very long time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i> Justice Amy Coney Barrett<\/a>, in comments given during a recent fireside chat<\/a> at Notre Dame Law School, where she likened her relationship to her fellow justices on the Supreme Court bench to an \u201carranged marriage.\u201d Barrett went on to say, \u201cYou need to always assume the best about those with whom you disagree. If you are looking for bad faith, you\u2019ll find it. Assume the best, until proven otherwise.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. We are nine people who are in an arranged marriage. We don\u2019t pick our colleagues, but we\u2019re going to be colleagues for a very, very long time. \u2014 Justice Amy Coney Barrett, in comments given during a recent fireside chat at Notre Dame Law […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":141074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Staci-Zaretsky-Tf8nCj.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}