‘Eight is not a good number’: Justices Ginsburg, Sotomayor address the New York City Bar Association (The Washington Post)
The Washington Post, October 26, 2016
‘Eight is not a good number’: Justices Ginsburg, Sotomayor address the New York City Bar Association
“Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is not, as her colleague Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg likes to point out, ‘a shrinking violet.’ But Sotomayor paused for a long time Tuesday night when television newsman Charlie Rose asked whether changing societal attitudes led to the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision finding a constitutional protection for gay couples to marry. ‘I’m wondering whether I should answer at all,’ Sotomayor finally said. She looked at the diminutive Ginsburg, who was sitting with her onstage at the New York City Bar Association…The two New Yorkers returned to a rousing welcome at the bar association’s historic home a couple of blocks from Times Square; the crowd packed the high-ceilinged meeting room, where a portrait of Ginsburg hangs, and spilled over to another where the crowd watched on closed-circuit television.”
