Sonia Sotomayor Hopes Judicial Branch Can Maintain Nation's 'Respect'

This can't be too hard... right?

Justice Sonia Sotomayor

For decades, the court has always managed to maintain the public’s respect, in large part because the public has perceived it as less partisan than other institutions. If we, as an institution, don’t find the way to find that middle, we stand a chance of going the way that our other branches of government have gone, and losing the respect that is at the core of our institution.

— Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in a brief speech calling for the members of the judicial branch to come together and defy the nation’s partisan politics, before judging the final round of the Ames Moot Court Competition at Harvard Law School.


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