Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor walked a fine line on Donald Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE's election Tuesday, saying that while she hopes for his success, those who disagree with him shouldn't abandon their values.

“I’m going to demur from answering the question that way,” she said Tuesday when asked if she was “apprehensive” about Trump entering the Oval Office, according to The Washington Post.

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“I will answer it in a different way, which is I think that this is the time where every good person has an obligation to both to continue being heard and to continue doing the right thing,” Sotomayor added, without naming Trump.

“We can’t afford for a president to fail. And it is true … that we have to support that which he does which is right and help guide him to those right decisions.”

Sotomayor also warned those frustrated with a president against succumbing to negativity and abandoning debate over the country’s direction.

“But we can’t afford to despair and we can’t afford to give up our pursuing of values that we and others have fought so hard to achieve,” said Sotomayor, a liberal judge President Obama nominated in 2009.

“And so for me, that is a challenge. So I’m going to continue doing what I think is the right thing. That’s the challenge we all have to face.”

Sotomayor added she is eager for the Supreme Court to be operating with a full bench.

“It’s not an ideal situation,” she said of the current makeup of the nation’s highest court. "We function better as nine.”

The Supreme Court has been short a ninth justice since Justice Antonin Scalia’s unexpected death in February.

President Obama has since nominated Judge Merrick Garland, but Senate Republicans have refused to conduct hearings or vote on his selection. Trump has promised to appoint conservatives in line with Scalia to succeed him.