"As the political left sees a sister in Ginsburg, and the political right sees a brother in Scalia, the average American projects his or her own tribal filter onto the justices and finds a friendship here legitimately impossible to imagine."
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"To decry a lack of respect today in political disagreement ... is perhaps to miss the rather fundamental aspect of the friendship: on questions pertaining to the nature of the court, which was their life, the justices were in complete agreement."
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"Their friendship wasn’t built on respect among differences, and finding common ground on interpretation of divisive law, which was never their job. Their friendship was built on a bedrock foundation of shared values, and chiefly, I think, the value of a sober, neutral court..."
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"These were guardians of a sacred institution, and they believed that institution must stand beyond politics."
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Anyway, read the whole thing, and subscribe while you're over there — Mike is very, very good at what he does
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That Mike Solana sure does have some great articles
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