How Justice Sotomayor Is ‘Busting’ The Supreme Court’s Steady Rhythms

*Love, love Sonia Sotomayor. Along with being a role model and exceptional jurist, she’s way cool. There’s a great story here about how she got the other Supreme Court Justices and law clerks to dance salsa in an otherwise staid year-end party. VL

By Nina Totenberg, NPR

What do salsa dancing and the Supreme Court have to do with each other? A lot, according to author Joan Biskupic, whose new book about Justice Sonia Sotomayor is now out in bookstores.

Sotomayor, of course, has written her own best-selling autobiography. But it ends, for all practical purposes, when she becomes a judge in 1992. Biskupic’s volume, titled Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice, picks up where Sotomayor left off. It is also different from her two previous Supreme Court biographies.

“I wanted to make this a political history,” Biskupic said in an interview with NPR. “I was intrigued by the fact that her life, the arc of her life, was actually the same trajectory of the rise of Latinos in America.”

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