Recently, the Supreme Court justices Sonia Sotomayor and Amy Coney Barrett spoke together publicly about how members of the court speak civilly to one another while disagreeing, sometimes vigorously, about the law.
Considerable disagreements on professional matters among the Supreme Court justices, important as they are, remain professional, not personal.
They found some, and Justice Ginsburg wore them ever after.
At about the same time, Justice O’Connor reminded me that our chief justice, William Rehnquist, had decided that he, too, needed something distinctive on his black robe.
Justice O’Connor found at a European bookstall a picture of Lorenzo de’ Medici wearing similar stripes.
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