My note to S.
I omitted to mention the most important reason why Sotomayor’s manner in oral argument in Dobbs was profoundly out of bounds.
Court in principle is the calm, deliberative place where the inclination to rage and violence in disputes finds its non violent, rational resolution even as there are ultimate winners and losers.
Social order needs this place.
Therefore, judicial temperament is one which is suited to such a place, calm, deliberative, disinterested, studious, civil, polite, respectful, open minded and persuadable, dedicated to reason and so on.
Sotomayor’s intemperate assertiveness, bullying, interrupting, indifferent imperiousness and actually appearing at least to me to insult Mississippi’s lawyer in the Dobbs argument starkly betray the requirement for judicial temperament.
In that, she shortened the distance between the court and the fractious outside world.
Fascinating take; "shortened the distance between the court and the fractious outside world" . . . indeed!
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