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FILE - Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett, left, and Sonia Sotomayor speak with retired U.S. Appeals Court Judge Thomas Griffith, not shown, during a panel discussion at the winter meeting of the National Governors Association, Feb. 23, 2024 in Washington. In joint appearances less than three weeks apart, ideologically opposite Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Sonia Sotomayor said a Supreme Court where voices don’t get raised in anger can be a model for the rest of the country in these polarized times. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Supreme Court Justices Barrett and Sotomayor, ideological opposites, unite to promote civility

With the Supreme Court’s approval hovering near record lows, two justices have teamed up to promote the art of disagreeing without being nasty about it.

CORRECTS EMHOFF TO SECOND GENTLEMEN INSTEAD OF FIRST - Vice President Kamala Harris, left, and second gentleman Doug Emhoff pay their respects as they walk past a portrait of retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor as her casket lies in the Great Hall at the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, Dec. 18, 2023. O'Connor, an Arizona native and the first woman to serve on the nation's highest court, died Dec. 1 at age 93. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, will lie in repose

CORRECTS SPELLING TO BEIMDIEK NOT BEIMBIEK FILE - Johnny Johnson, left, listens as his attorney Bevy Beimdiek speaks during his sentencing hearing in St. Louis County Court in Clayton, Mo., March 7, 2005. Johnson who abducted and beat to death a 6-year-old girl was scheduled to be executed on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, in Missouri, as his attorneys pressed claims that he is mentally incompetent. (Gabriel B. Tait/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, File)

Missouri man executed for 2002 abduction, killing of 6-year-old girl lured to abandoned factory

The sun rises behind the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Senate committee approves legislation to impose stronger ethics standards on Supreme Court justices

FILE. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor addresses attendees of an event promoting her new children's book "Just Ask!" in Decatur, Ga., Sept. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)

Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor’s staff prodded colleges and libraries to buy her books

Supreme Court seems likely to preserve access to the abortion medication mifepristone, AP Explains

The Supreme Court seems likely to preserve access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year, in the court’s first abortion case since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago.

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Supreme Court Justices Barrett and Sotomayor, ideological opposites, unite to promote civility

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Mother convicted of killing 8-year-old son dies by suicide

NEW YORK (AP) — A health care executive who was convicted of manslaughter for fatally drugging her 8-year-old developmentally disabled son has died by suicide, authorities said.

The Supreme Court is seen on Election Day in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Supreme Court skeptical of rejecting civil rights precedent

The Supreme Court seems likely to reject a call to overturn decades of precedent and limit the ability of individuals to use federal civil rights law to sue.

FILE - This photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows death-row inmate Andre Thomas, from Texoma, Texas. A divided Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Black Texas death row inmate who argued he didn’t get a fair trial because jurors who convicted him objected to interracial marriage. The court’s three liberal justices dissented Tuesday from the court’s order turning away the appeal from inmate Andre Thomas. He was sentenced to death for killing his estranged wife, who was white, and two children. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP, File)

Court rejects Black Texas death row inmate’s race bias claim

A divided Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Black Texas death row inmate who argued he didn’t get a fair trial because jurors who convicted him objected to interracial marriage.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor reviews a statue of herself after its unveiling at Bronx Terminal Market, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, Pool)

Justice Sotomayor visits Bronx for unveiling of her statue

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor returned Thursday to the Bronx community where she grew up to see the unveiling of her bronze statue at a shopping center in the heart of the community.

Sotomayor denies NYPD detective’s plea to block vax mandate

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Monday denied an appeal from a New York Police Department detective who asked for an emergency injunction to keep the city from firing him over its mandate that municipal employees be vaccinated against the coronavirus.

FILE - U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor appears during an event April 5, 2022, at Washington University in St. Louis. Two of the Supreme Court justices who disagree most often on the outcomes of cases say they both still try hard to persuade each other, and sometimes succeed. Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Amy Coney Barrett made the comments in a pretaped conversation made public for the first time Thursday evening, July 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

High court’s Sotomayor, Barrett try to persuade each other

Two of the Supreme Court justices who disagree most often on the outcomes of cases say they both still try hard to persuade each other, and sometimes succeed.

FILE - The Supreme Court is seen at sundown in Washington, on Nov. 6, 2020. The Supreme Court won't allow the Biden administration to implement a policy that prioritizes deportation of people in the country illegally who pose the greatest public safety risk. The court's order on July 21, 2022, leaves the policy frozen nationwide for now. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court won’t let Biden implement immigration policy

The Supreme Court won’t allow the Biden administration to implement a policy that prioritizes deportation of people in the U.S. illegally who pose the greatest public safety risk.

FILE - Associate Justice Samuel Alito sits during a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, April 23, 2021. The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years — a decision by its conservative majority to overturn the court's landmark abortion cases. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)

What GOP-named justices had said about Roe to Senate panel

The nine justices of the Supreme Court made clear in their landmark ruling Friday whether they stand on abortion. The conservative majority overturned the Roe v.

The U.S. Supreme Court is seen in Washington, Monday, June 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Justices rule for American woman in bitter custody dispute

The Supreme Court has ruled unanimously for an American woman who is involved in a bitter international custody dispute with her Italian husband over their young son.

The U.S. Supreme Court, Monday, June 13, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Justices rule against detained immigrants seeking release

The Supreme Court has ruled against immigrants who are seeking their release from long periods of detention while they fight deportation orders.

The U.S Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, June 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Justice Barrett’s $425K tops among Supreme Court’s authors

Supreme Court financial disclosures reveal that the justices took in $800,000 in book royalties last year, a lucrative supplement to their judicial salaries.

FILE - The U.S. Supreme Court building is shown, May 4, 2022 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Supreme Court blocks Texas law on social media censorship

A divided Supreme Court has blocked a Texas law, championed by conservatives, that aimed to keep social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter from censoring users based on their viewpoints.

FILE - The U.S. Supreme Court, May 16, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Supreme Court rules against inmates in right-to-counsel case

The Supreme Court has ruled along ideological lines against two Arizona death row inmates who had argued that their lawyers did a poor job representing them in state court.

FILE - An American flag blows in the wind in front of the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Court upholds Puerto Ricans’ exclusion from benefits program

The Supreme Court has upheld the differential treatment of residents of Puerto Rico, ruling that Congress was within its power to exclude them from a benefits program that’s available in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

People celebrate the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson the first Black woman to reach the Supreme Court during a rally outside of the U.S. Supreme Court on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Friday, April 8, 2022. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

High court won’t hear New York City teacher vaccine dispute

The Supreme Court is declining to wade into a lawsuit filed by four New York City public school employees over a policy that they be vaccinated against COVID-19.

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor appears at an event Tuesday, April 5, 2022, at Washington University in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Sotomayor sees good in colleagues despite differences

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Tuesday that even though her views often differ from her colleagues’, she realizes “there’s good in every one of them.”

FILE - People stand on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, Feb.11, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Justices allow new defense of blocked Kentucky abortion law

The Supreme Court has ruled that Kentucky’s Republican attorney general may continue defending a restriction on abortion rights that had been struck down by lower courts.

Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor holds her new children's book "Just Help!" on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

In kids’ book, Sotomayor asks: Whom have you helped today?

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is out with a new children’s book that challenges kids to ask how they can help at home and in their communities.

FILE - Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, left, and Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, gather with other justices of the U.S. Supreme Court for an official group portrait, June 1, 2017, at the Supreme Court Building in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Sotomayor, Gorsuch deny report they were at odds over masks

Two Supreme Court justices say a media report they were at odds over the wearing of masks during the surge in coronavirus cases is false.

FILE - This artist sketch depicts lawyer Scott Keller standing to argue on behalf of more than two dozen business groups seeking an immediate order from the Supreme Court to halt a Biden administration order to impose a vaccine-or-testing requirement on the nation's large employers during the COVID-19 pandemic, at the Supreme Court in Washington, Jan. 7, 2022. The Supreme Court has stopped the Biden administration from enforcing a requirement that employees at large businesses be vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergo weekly testing and wear a mask on the job. The court's order Thursday during a spike in coronavirus cases deals a blow to the administration's efforts to boost the vaccination rate among Americans. (Dana Verkouteren via AP, File)

Supreme Court skeptical of Biden’s workplace vaccine rule

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears skeptical of the Biden administration’s authority to impose a vaccine-or-testing requirement on the nation’s large employers.

A police officer walks by during a voting rights rally, at the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Supreme Court rejects appeal over secretive court’s work

The Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal over whether the public should have access to opinions of the secretive court that reviews bulk email collection, warrantless internet searches and other government surveillance programs.

In this Oct. 18, 2021 photo, the Supreme Court is seen in Washington. Texas is urging the Supreme Court to leave in place its law banning most abortions and telling the justices there’s no reason to rush into the case. The state filed its response Thursday to the Biden administration’s call on the high court to block the law and rule conclusively this term on the measure’s constitutionality. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Supreme Court doesn’t block Texas abortion law, sets hearing

The Supreme Court is allowing the Texas law that bans most abortions to remain in place for now, but has agreed to hear arguments in the case on Nov. 1.

In this Oct. 4, 2021 photo, the Supreme Court is seen on the first day of the new term, in Washington. Abortion already is dominating the Supreme Court’s new term, months before the justices will decide whether to reverse decisions reaching back nearly 50 years. Not only is there Mississippi’s call to overrule Roe v. Wade, but the court also soon will be asked again to weigh in on the Texas law banning abortion at roughly six weeks. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Don’t stand so close to us

Get tested. Wear a mask. Don’t get too close. Not your typical court orders, but that was the word from the Supreme Court to lawyers and reporters who returned to the high court this week for the first in-person arguments in more than a year and a half.

FILE - This photo from Wednesday Aug. 25, 2021, shows teachers protesting against COVID-19 vaccination mandates in New York. On Friday, Oct. 1, 2021, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied an emergency appeal from a group of teachers to block New York City's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for public school teachers and other staff from going into effect. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, file)

Supreme Court justice axes appeal of NYC school vaccine plan

NEW YORK (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Friday denied an emergency appeal from a group of teachers to block New York City’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for public school teachers and other staff from going into effect.

FILE - In this April 23, 2021, file photo Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor sits during a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington. Acknowledging the limits of her own influence on the law as a member of the Supreme Court's liberal minority, Sotomayor on Wednesday, Sept. 29, encouraged citizens to work to change laws they may disagree with, like a recent Texas law that limits access to abortions. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)

Losing can ‘get frustrating’ says liberal Justice Sotomayor

Justice Sonia Sotomayor is encouraging citizens to work to change laws they may disagree with, such as a recent Texas law that limits access to abortions.

This cover image released by Penguin Young Readers shows "Just Help!" by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. (Penguin Young Readers via AP)

Sotomayor’s picture book ‘Just Help!’ coming in January

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is continuing her successful side career as an author with a picture book about giving to others.

Supreme Court rules against inmate in death penalty case

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against an Alabama inmate whose lawyers argued that his trial counsel should have done more to try to show he is intellectually disabled and therefore he should be spared a death sentence.

FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2015, file photo, Army 1st Lt. Shaye Haver, center, and Capt. Kristen Griest, right, pose for photos with other female West Point alumni after an Army Ranger school graduation ceremony at Fort Benning, Ga. Haver and Griest became the first female graduates of the Army's rigorous Ranger School. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

High court won’t review men-only draft registration law

The Supreme Court, for now, is leaving it up Congress to decide whether to change the requirement that only men must register for the draft.

Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor sits during a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, April 23, 2021. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Sotomayor: Americans need to take critical look at policing

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says Americans should think critically about how they want police to interact with citizens.

FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2020 file photo, Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett speaks during a confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barrett has delivered her first opinion. The 7-2 decision released Thursday is in a case about the federal Freedom of Information Act, which Barrett explains makes “records available to the public upon request, unless those records fall within one of nine exemptions.” Barrett wrote for the court that certain draft documents do not have to be disclosed under FOIA. The 11-page opinion comes in the first case Barrett heard after joining the court in late October following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Justice Stephen Breyer and Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett delivers 1st opinion

WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Amy Coney Barrett delivered her first Supreme Court majority opinion Thursday, ruling against an environmental group that had sought access to government records.