"Collegiality" on SCOTUS

[DemocratSinceBirth]

They supposedly like one another. I don't like anybody who would take my rights away or the rights of people I care about. I wouldn't be intentionally rude to such a person but I damn sure wouldn't be collegial. SCOTUS isn't an ordinary work place where you can avoid discussing certain topics. They're not making widgets. They're making laws and determining what rights we can enjoy.

[Bettie]

1. Well, maybe it is as simple as

wealthy people have more in common with other wealthy people than they do with the rest of us?

I mean, all of them live in that bubble of wealth and privilege that makes most cases not applicable to them.

[RKP5637]

5. Yeah, exactly ... often the wealthy have a lot in common, lots of bonding. It's utterly an entirely

different world.

[leftieNanner]

2. I would have trouble

Being cordial to a liar.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. I would be more cordial to a liar than a bigot.

[spooky3]

4. I doubt that all of them like all the others.

It’s like any work team—you won’t like everyone but you have to be professional. And if anyone (say, the media) were to ask you about this, you would say “we are collegial” and tell the full truth only to your SO.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. Clarence Thomas seems like a misandrist, bigot, a homophobe, and an awful human being.

A golem. I could never be cordial to him.

[spooky3]

7. I cannot imagine that Sotomayor smiles fondly at Alito.

It will be interesting to see how Brown Jackson affects the dynamic.

[former9thward]

15. RBG and Scalia were tennis partners.

Their families took vacations together. It wasn't just a media thing.

[Wounded Bear]

8. From what few leaks we've had...

and some of the opinions being published in dissent, I don't think there's a hell of a lot of "collegiality" on this court.

[Ilsa]

9. I'd watch out for some roaming hands if I worked in the building. nt

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. It's a small club, and we're not in it.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. I'm sure Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Brown-Jackson would be more comfortable in our club

[WhiskeyGrinder]

14. Scalia and Ginsburg were famous friends; Kagan and Scalia were hunting buddies. O'Connor organized

movie nights for all the justices to meet together outside of court. Sotomayor just last week lavished praise on Thomas, calling him a friend. They're plenty comfortable right where they are.

[milestogo]

11. Ketanji Brown Jackson is about to join an elite but dysfunctional group.

I am glad she will have Sotomayor and Kagan. If not it would be awfully lonely.

[bluesbassman]

13. How can one like someone they have no respect for?

And how could one have any respect for people who would write such an egregious opinion as Dodds?

I ain’t buying they like each other.