Sotomayor also addressed the differences in judicial philosophies among she and her colleagues. President Biden has been working to nominate candidates to the federal bench with diverse backgrounds and address disparities in the professional experiences of judges, including those who worked as public defenders. Sotomayor continued, "There are so many areas of law that the court touches and whose decisions impact in such tremendous ways that I do worry that the authorities who are selecting judges are not paying enough attention to that kind of diversity as well." We don't have anyone who has done environmental work." We don't have anyone who has done immigration work. "We have nobody on our bench who has done criminal defense work outside of perhaps some white collar work. "We have no real lawyer who's been in the trenches on civil rights issues, whether it's on women's rights or racial rights or even disability rights, on any level of civil rights," she said. Justice Clarence Thomas, who rarely asked questions during in-person arguments before the pandemic, was active during the remote arguments and has continued to be this term with the new hybrid sessions.ĭuring her remarks Wednesday, Sotomayor also addressed the diversity among the court with regards to their judicial philosophies and professional experience, noting that with Ginsburg's death last year, the high court "lost our only civil rights lawyer." Professional diversity on the nation's highest court, she said, is "sorely missing." Then, once the attorney's time for argument has ended, each justice has the chance to ask questions in order of seniority, beginning with the chief justice.īy incorporating the one-by-one approach, the high court appeared to adopt a hybrid model for its arguments, as it kept the format used during its remote arguments last year, when the coronavirus pandemic closed the courtroom and forced the justices to conduct the sessions by teleconference. Lawyers have two minutes at the start of their argument to make opening remarks without interruption, after which questioning by the justices in its traditional free-for-all begins. When the Supreme Court returned for in-person oral arguments at the start of its term this month, it launched a new format for its sessions that combined the free-for-all questioning by justices with a round of each member asking questions one-by-one, a holdover from the remote arguments held during the coronavirus pandemic.Ī new format for arguments rolled out this term has in some ways cut down on interruptions. The studies led Chief Justice John Roberts to be "much more sensitive" to the issue and ensure that justices "were if not interrupted, at least that he was playing referee when interruptions happened." CNN first reported Sotomayor's remarks during the event.
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