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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI saw Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor today!
Living here in South Florida (especially Broward County) has really really sucked lately....
But like a bright ray of sunshine Justice Sotomayor graced us with her presence at the Miami Book Fair and it was wonderful! She was brilliant, exciting, funny, warm - there are just not enough words. She was at the book fair promoting a new children's book she wrote called "Turning Pages", and when she finished speaking, she invited the children in the audience to come ask her questions - then gave them all hugs. Best day I've had in a looong time.
applegrove
(118,807 posts)FM123
(10,054 posts)BTW she was interviewed by CSpan2 before her book fair lecture and it's going to be on at midnight tonight.
applegrove
(118,807 posts)It is about grit.
George II
(67,782 posts)....what an amazing interview. She really has her head screwed on straight for a Supreme Court Justice. Just a down to earth, normal, and pleasant person to watch/listen to. Certainly no airs about her or attitude.
But then again, she's a working class native New Yorker (like me!), that's the way we are (little pat on the back there)
applegrove
(118,807 posts)air for too long. It is downright henious not to have some grounding in real peoples. Look at what has happened to the Republican Party as an example. Sotomeyor has a great story and a decency missing in people like Scalia and his ilk. May Kavanaugh learn from it.
George II
(67,782 posts)...who thinks the world owes him a living. No help for that guy.
DownriverDem
(6,232 posts)Maybe (hoping) that Roberts leans our way sometimes. He is always thinking of legacy.
oasis
(49,410 posts)FakeNoose
(32,777 posts)DownriverDem
(6,232 posts)I would have loved being there. Such a great & intelligent justice!
Rhiannon12866
(206,091 posts)And she was also on with Stephen Colbert last night, as you know:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017520903