{"id":148572,"date":"2026-04-10T12:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/10\/i-dissent-so-much-sotomayor-gets-real-about-life-on-a-divided-court\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T12:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:50:09","slug":"i-dissent-so-much-sotomayor-gets-real-about-life-on-a-divided-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/10\/i-dissent-so-much-sotomayor-gets-real-about-life-on-a-divided-court\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Dissent So Much\u2019: Sotomayor Gets Real About Life On A Divided Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

If you mean bridges\u2014convince them that they\u2019re wrong\u2014I dissent so much. I\u2019m not very successful.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0 Justice Sonia Sotomayor<\/a>, in a somewhat defeated response<\/a> to a question from a law student at the University of Alabama, about how she\u2019s built bridges with the court\u2019s conservative majority. Sotomayor went on to describe her relationships with her fellow justices as cordial outside of the decision-making process, \u201cWith all of them I certainly have a civil relationship. And with many, I dare say I have a friendship.\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\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her 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 \u2018I Dissent So Much\u2019: Sotomayor Gets Real About Life On A Divided Court<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

If you mean bridges\u2014convince them that they\u2019re wrong\u2014I dissent so much. I\u2019m not very successful.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0 Justice Sonia Sotomayor<\/a>, in a to a question from a law student at the University of Alabama, about how she\u2019s built bridges with the court\u2019s conservative majority. Sotomayor went on to describe her relationships with her fellow justices as cordial outside of the decision-making process, \u201cWith all of them I certainly have a civil relationship. And with many, I dare say I have a friendship.\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\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her 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,\u00a0Quote of the Day. If you mean bridges\u2014convince them that they\u2019re wrong\u2014I dissent so much. I\u2019m not very successful. \u2014\u00a0 Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in a somewhat defeated response to a question from a law student at the University of Alabama, about how she\u2019s built bridges with the court\u2019s conservative […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":148573,"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-148572","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\/04\/Staci-Zaretsky-xbWPIg.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148572","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=148572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}