According to the media rumor mill, the Supreme Court is wracked with partisan infighting between justices who vehemently disagree with one another on nearly everything and have little or no common ground to share.

That's not entirely the case, however, as liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor recently revealed that while she at times finds her conservative-leaning colleagues to be "frustrating," she maintains "collegiality" by focusing on what is "good" in them, according to Fox News.

The Obama-appointed jurist also acknowledged that, while she is often part of the dissenting minority in any given decision, her Republican-appointed counterparts in the majority frequently, though not always, make good and legitimate points about the laws in question.

Sotomayor looks for the "good" in her colleagues

Justice Sotomayor appeared this past week on CBS's "The Late Show" with Stephen Colbert to promote her new children's book, "Just Shine! How to Be a Better You," and to discuss her fiery dissent in a recent emergency decision on immigration enforcement procedures in Los Angeles, California.

In discussing her book, Sotomayor shared a lesson she'd learned from her mother to always "look for the best in people," and said, "That was the lesson that moment gave me, and it’s one I look for in my colleagues."

"I don’t agree with them much. At least not with the majority," Sotomayor said of her fellow jurists. "And they can be really frustrating. And there are moments when I want to scurry out of the room."

"But I don’t. And what I look for to maintain our collegiality is the good in them," she added, which can be found in "almost" everyone.

People should read the court's opinions themselves

Following a commercial break, Colbert brought up in the second segment Sotomayor's dissent in the recent ruling on a "shadow docket" case about immigration enforcement procedures in L.A., in which the majority allowed the Trump administration to proceed with making immigration-related stops, searches, and arrests based on certain criteria, including race and linguistics, which some critics allege amounts to racial profiling.

According to USA Today, Colbert read aloud a brief portion of Sotomayor's highly critical opinion before jokingly offering her an opportunity to read the entire thing to his audience, who stood and applauded what they'd heard from the host.

The justice declined the offer, however, and instead said to the audience, "I want you to read it, and I want you to read the concurring opinion."

"Too many people hear what a Supreme Court decision is, and they come to immediate conclusions based on what only their personal feelings are," she continued. "You shouldn’t do that. You should read the opinions."

"You're gonna be shocked -- not in this one, but in others -- where you're gonna read the majority opinion and then you're gonna step back and say, 'You know, they made some really good points,'" Sotomayor conceded. "And then you read the dissent and say, 'They made some really good points.' And you realize that the questions are close."

Barrett also says people should read the court's decisions

USA Today reported that conservative-leaning Justice Amy Coney Barrett made a similar point in her own new book, "Listening to the Law," in which she also encouraged everyone to read the views of both sides in any given decision.

Barrett shared a story of her brother-in-law once following her advice to read a major decision in its entirety while on a family vacation, and while she was not particularly thrilled that he wanted to talk with her about afterward, she nonetheless wrote, "I do always advise people to read the Court’s opinions, but I doubt many people -- including lawyers -- take me up on it."