Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor (43 page)

The presidential inauguration was held at the U.S. Capitol on January 21, 2013. Justice Sotomayor greets Biden just before that ceremony. Standing on the platform waiting for the ceremony to begin are Chief Justice Roberts and Associate Justices Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, and Antonin Scalia.
(Steve Petteway, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States)

The current Supreme Court, together in their robes in 2010
(Steve Petteway, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States)

Justice Sotomayor gets ready to press the button for the countdown ball for the celebration of the New Year on January 1, 2014, in Times Square.
(Getty Images)

ALSO BY JOAN BISKUPIC

American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

Sandra Day O’Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Joan Biskupic has covered the U.S. Supreme Court for more than twenty years and is the author of several books, including
American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
and
Sandra Day O’Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice
. Biskupic is an editor in charge for legal affairs at Reuters News. Before joining Reuters in 2012, she was the Supreme Court correspondent for
The Washington Post
and for
USA Today
. A graduate of Georgetown Law, she is a regular panelist on PBS’s
Washington Week
with Gwen Ifill. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and daughter.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Biskupic, Joan, author.

    Breaking in: the rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the politics of justice / Joan Biskupic.

        pages    cm

    Includes bibliographical references (p.    ) and indexes.

    ISBN 978-0-374-29874-6 (hardback) — ISBN 978-0-374-71241-9 (ebook)

    1.  Sotomayor, Sonia, 1954–   2.  Hispanic American judges—Biography.   3.  Judges—United States—Biography.   I.  Title.

KF8745.S67 B57 2014

347.73'2634—dc23

[B]

2014016703

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