- Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a rare public apology to fellow Justice Brett Kavanaugh for inappropriate comments she made about him.
- Sotomayor had accused Kavanaugh of being out of touch with the real-world effects of a high-profile immigration ruling due to his privileged background.
- Her comments, made at a University of Kansas Law School event, criticized Kavanaugh's concurring opinion in a September case that allowed immigration agents to stop migrants based on appearance and language.
- Kavanaugh's opinion stated that such immigration stops were 'typically brief' and those cleared would 'promptly go free'.
- Both Sotomayor's criticism and subsequent apology are highly unusual for a Supreme Court justice, given the court's tradition of privacy and collegiality.
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