The New Yorker has a really interesting piece on Sonia Sotomayor. I like this story:
Not every senator was charmed by Sotomayor. The day she broke her ankle, she kept an appointment with Senator David Vitter, a Republican from Louisiana. Vitter, Sotomayor later told a friend, was unwelcoming. As they were finishing their meeting, Vitter said, “I want to ask you—do you think if I was you, and I had made the wise-Latina comment that you made, that I would have deserved to be a Supreme Court Justice?”
Sotomayor replied, “If you had my record, yes.”
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/01/11/100111fa_fact_collins?currentPage=4#ixzz0cRQd2AS7
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