Sotomayor wanted to beat Scalia with a baseball bat

US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor made a plea for public civility during a speech in Minnesota — then admitted that she often wanted to bash her late conservative colleague, Antonin𒐪 Scalia, over the ꩵhead with a baseball bat.

“There are things he’s said ꦕon the bench where if I had a baseball bat, I might have used it,” she told a crowd at the University of Minnesota on Monday, .

She also seemed to mock her other colleaguꦰes on the bench during a 90-minute Q&A with students and s📖taffers.

Asked whet♑her she was tough on lawyers when she was a trial judge, the Bronx-bor༺n jurist said she could tolerate mistakes but not laziness or poor preparation.

“I think I suffer fools easily — ♛you know ꦅwhere I sit, right?” she quipped.

Still, Sotomayor, 62, also had nice things to say about Scalia, comparing his death in February to losin𒐪g a family member, despite their disagreements on ꦕissues before the court.

“If we’ve lost anything, it’s remembering that differences don’t stand, necessarily, on ill will,” she said. “If you keep that in mind, you can resolve almost any issue, because you can find that common ಞground to interact with each other📖.”