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If you mean bridges—convince them that they’re wrong—I dissent so much. I’m not very successful.
— Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in a somewhat defeated response to a question from a law student at the University of Alabama, about how she’s built bridges with the court’s conservative majority. Sotomayor went on to describe her relationships with her fellow justices as cordial outside of the decision-making process, “With all of them I certainly have a civil relationship. And with many, I dare say I have a friendship.”
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