With important decisions on abortion, affirmative action and immigration looming, the Supreme Court’s two most consistent liberals spoke out this week — about food.
At a Smithsonian event Wednesday night, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg issued a sharp dissent to a former colleague’s habit of bringing yogurt — “just plain yogurt” — to the justices’ luncheons. Justice Sonia Sotomayor crossed ideological lines to declare that the leftovers Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. brings from home always look delicious.
As a strange Supreme Court term profoundly altered by the unexpected death of Justice Antonin Scalia grinds to a close this month, it would be tempting to say that such observations pass for news these days at the Marble Palace.