Justice Sonia Sotomayor says she thought about hitting Antonin Scalia with baseball bat

*Justice Sotomayor: “If we’ve lost anything, it’s remembering that differences don’t stand, necessarily, on ill will. If you keep that in mind, you can resolve almost any issue, because you can find that common ground to interact with each other.”

By Christopher Brennan, New York Daily News (1.5 minute read)

Sonia Sotomayor said her fellow Supreme Court justice’s comments sometimes left her wanting to dispense rough justice with sporting equipment.

“There are things he’s said on the bench where if I had a baseball bat, I might have used it,” the Bronx-born judge said of her late colleague Antonin Scalia on Monday.

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Scalia was a longtime leader of the Court’s conservative wing, often on the opposite side of Sotomayor on issues such as gay marriage and affirmative action after she was appointed by President Obama in 2009. READ MORE