It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay…

Sonia Sotomayor
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It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona. ✨ CNN Newsroom with Fredricka Whitfield, www.cnn.com. May 30, 2009.
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It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona. ✨ CNN Newsroom with Fredricka Whitfield, www.cnn.com. May 30, 2009.

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