Neil Gorsuch
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But she does like to lord over some of the British stuff, reminding me that we owe so much to Britain in this country, including the fact that about half of our city and state names are derivative of towns in Britain.
New York, New Jersey, Maryland, as she would say, Virginia.
You're going to have to ask her that, Megan.
I don't follow.
That's not my world.
There are...
Many of them.
I'm never going to convince Sonia Sotomayor or Steve Breyer about originalism.
That's just not going to happen.
I mean, Steve's written like three books telling me why I'm wrong about originalism.
But we know we're going to disagree over cases.
That's not a surprise to us.
I mean, lawyers, as you well know, that's the stock and trade.
We're going to disagree and we're going to have different points of view about interpreting the law.
But I do sit around the table from eight other people every day who I know love this country and love our Constitution and love the Declaration every bit as much as I do.
And when you remember that about people with whom you disagree, if you assume they're operating in good faith, I'm not saying everybody is, but start with that assumption and then listen.
And if you listen to them long enough, you're going to find something in there you're going to agree on.
And maybe you start there.
We shake hands.
I'll ask you on that.