Best of the Axe Files: Justice Sonia Sotomayor
The Axe Files with David Axelrod
CNN
4.6 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This week we revisit our November 2018 conversation with Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. She joined David to discuss her remarkable personal journey from the Bronx to the highest court in the land, how her background as a prosecutor and district judge helped to inform her perspective, the shifting dynamics on the Supreme Court, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:06.0 | And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN Audio, the Axfiles with |
| 0:12.5 | your host, David Axelrod. |
| 0:19.8 | One of my favorite episodes of all time was a conversation I had with Supreme Court |
| 0:24.0 | Justice Sonia Sotomayor for my Axfiles TV show in 2018. |
| 0:29.3 | A daughter of the South Bronx, Justice Sotomayor has one of the great and inspiring stories |
| 0:34.2 | of anyone I know in public life. |
| 0:36.3 | Here's that conversation. |
| 0:38.3 | Music |
| 0:46.3 | Justice Sotomayor, so good to see you again, good to be with you. |
| 0:50.9 | It's always wonderful to see you, David. |
| 0:53.6 | I was telling you before that I found your book, your biography, your memoir, absolutely |
| 1:01.3 | riveting and honest and powerful. |
| 1:04.3 | And now you've written two more books, Derivative of it for young people. |
| 1:10.0 | I want to talk to you about that. |
| 1:12.4 | I can't, we're in this room, this conference room at the Supreme Court, surrounded by portraits |
| 1:18.4 | of the chiefs who have presided over the court. |
| 1:22.6 | And I just wanted to spend a couple of minutes on the moment that you think the court is |
| 1:27.9 | in now. |
| 1:28.9 | We just came through this, I know you guys are sort of cloister, but you're not cocooned. |
| 1:34.1 | We came through this acrimonious process of confirmation. |
| 1:41.2 | How do you view it from the inside? |
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