Sotomayor sees good in colleagues despite differences

By JIM SALTER
Associated Press

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says that even though her views are often different than her colleagues, she realizes “there’s good in every one of them.” The 67-year-old justice spoke Tuesday at Washington University in St. Louis. Her appearance came in the midst of hearings on the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who would become the first Black female Supreme Court justice. Sotomayor didn’t address the process. Asked about polarization, Sotomayor harkened to lessons learned from her mother, who died in July and taught her to see the good in everyone. That includes her colleagues on the Supreme Court, where Sotomayor and her two liberal colleagues are outnumbered 6-3.