Well, what's very interesting is that those people read our opinions which can be, at moments, rather animated. An animated exchange in writing among the justices. And many people who read our opinions think we have to be at each other's necks constantly. It's interesting we're not. When we're talking about cases at our conference it's generally a conversation. It's really a talk about what our perspectives are and why we have reached the conclusions we've reached.
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Sonia Sotomayor
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 2009–present
United States · b. 1954
Politics and public life
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Has served on the Supreme Court of the United States since 2009. Previously a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and before that an assistant district attorney in Manhattan. Published the memoir My Beloved World in 2013.
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