As a Supreme Court confirmation battle looms, Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered a sobering warning about intensifying partisanship that she says puts the court's independence at the brink of crisis.
"The more partisan the voting becomes, the less belief that the public is likely to have that Congress is making a merit-based or qualifications-based assessment ofErin Schaff/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE
President Joe Biden is said to be pursuing a nominee who can draw bipartisan support in part as an effort to dial-down the partisanship around confirmations. "We have an obligation to keep open minds," she said,"that we are willing to change with time and experience. If we don't show it, people will believe --perhaps wrongly -- that we are just political creatures and not independent judges."
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