Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
We are nine people who are in an arranged marriage. We don’t pick our colleagues, but we’re going to be colleagues for a very, very long time.
— Justice Amy Coney Barrett, in comments given during a recent fireside chat at Notre Dame Law School, where she likened her relationship to her fellow justices on the Supreme Court bench to an “arranged marriage.” Barrett went on to say, “You need to always assume the best about those with whom you disagree. If you are looking for bad faith, you’ll find it. Assume the best, until proven otherwise.”
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