After speaking with zero conservative voices about politics last season, ABC’s The View sent a message that they were planning to continue that model on Tuesday’s episode. Their first guest of Season 29 was U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who was treated to a softball interview filled with gush about her opinions and dissent. At one point, co-host Joy Behar expressed a fear that Americans would soon not be able to read her dissents because cuts to the federal Department of Education would lead to no one being able to read at all.
Justice Sotomayor, on the show to hawk her latest children’s book, broached the topic of dissents early and seemed to scoff at the attention that majority opinions got and told viewers to seek out the dissents:
How hard each case is. Now, when you read a majority opinion, it sounds totally convincing. It does. Because for you to sign on to a decision, you have to believe what you are signing on to. Read the dissent. Read the other side and it will tell you how hard these questions are. Don't ever think there's a simple answer. There isn't.
When former federal prosecutor and co-host Sunny Hostin noted that she was “writing a lot of [dissents] lately,” Sotomayor quipped: “More than I ever hoped.”
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