The Supreme Court has deliberated on several heated topics throughout its many years, but the justices follow a set of rules comparable to a “preschool” to ensure civility.
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett explained the justices’ rules for their conferences when deliberating cases in a panel with Justice Sonia Sotomayor and chief executive of Citizen University Eric Liu at George Washington University on Tuesday.
“We don’t speak in a hot way at our conferences,” Barrett said. “We don’t raise our voices no matter how hot-button the case. We always speak with respect.”
“There’s a norm for how we speak, Chief Justice begins because he’s the most senior, and you go around in a circle. Most senior down to most junior, and you say what you think about the case, and the norm is
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