... , not exactly. Ben Smith blogs my tweet about dining two tables away from the newest Justice at the modest but nice ($20 entrees), Brooklyn restaurant Po last night. Which is not a shocker, as Sotomayor once lived in the surrounding Carroll Gardens neighborhood. She was eating with two dignified-looking women perhaps in their mid-to-late fifties--and forgot her purse, which her security detail ...

... close friend Sandra Guzman, who was at the event. While Obama was still deciding whom to nominate, Sotomayor wondered if the job was right for her. Just three weeks before the president announced his choice, ... nation, who can dream bigger if you are in the Supreme Court." Sotomayor has granted few, if any, sit-down interviews since becoming the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme ...

... New York, the audience was presented with this very current situation. What would they want Justice Sotomayor to know before she votes on an abortion case? One will surely come before the ... had three people read them out loud to the rest of us. We all learned from each other. What do you have to say to Justice Sotomayor? Email: wordsofchoice@mindspring.com. Send directly: Justice Sonia Sotomayor ...

... Supreme Court. Three weeks before the nomination was announced, Sotomayor confessed to a friend that she was considering withdrawing her name from consideration, Latina ... friend, lawyer Lee Llambelis, told Sotomayor to stay in the running. "This is not about you," Llambelis ... reportedly told Sotomayor. "It's about the little girls and boys, brown and black, who live in the projects ...

... legal establishment, Stare Decisis be damned. But Justice Sotomayor suggested the majority might have it all wrong — and that instead the court should ... On today’s court, the direction Justice Sotomayor suggested is unlikely to prevail. During arguments, the court’s ... Kennedy said during arguments last week. …Justice Sotomayor may have found a like mind in Justice Ruth Bader ...

Tony Mauro writes in The National Law JournalNew Justice Sotomayor Emerges as Frequent -- and Tough -- Questioner. "As Sotomayor wraps up her ... lawyer does not answer her question precisely. She knows her stuff and clearly loves the give and take. All of which is to say, Sotomayor fits right in with her new colleagues, many of whom do exactly the same thing. Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. and ...