Ever elusive as they are, the Supreme Court's public persona is minimal at best, let alone sightings of them outside of the courtroom doing Regular Person Things. It's one of many reasons why today's Page Six item about Sonia Sotomayor is particularly wonderful: Read More
Knopf announced today that they have acquired the rights to Sonia Sotomayor's memoir. Agent Peter Bernstein negotiated the deal, and George Andreou will be editing.
According to Knopf, the yet-untitled book will be "a coming-of-age memoir by an American daughter of Puerto Rican immigrants."
"Sonia Sotomayor has lived a remarkable life and her achievements will prove an Read More
Obama will host
Ray Kelly returns from jaunt in France. [NYP]
New York struggles to recover its public campaign funds. [NYT]
Long Island man with FDNY disabilities pension for diminished lung capacity does triathalons. [NYP]
Surfing show opens across three Manhattan galleries. [WWD]
Sonia Sotomayor spotted "scarfing burgers" in Read More
Here is one of the many robocalls Michael Bloomberg’s campaign is sending out. This one, by Spanish television personality Denisse Oller, mentions Barack Obama and Sonia Sotomayor.
It’s targeted to Spanish voters, but was received by a reader originally from Manhattan with a distinctively Italian name.
“Not only did Mayor Mike recommend to President Read More
Is a Ph.D. required to land a cooking gig at the White House? Is it compulsory to have kissed—at age 7—Fidel Castro (even though his beard smelled of sour milk)? Maricel Presilla, guest chef for a “Fiesta Latina” reception hosted by the Obamas last week, has these recommendations and more. A small blond woman of Read More
Is Sonia Sotomayor already the Supreme Court's most outspoken liberal?
She started asking questions in the first minute of her first day yesterday, and by the L.A. Times' count, she asked 36 in the first hour. Then she and Justice Ginsburg teamed up to ask most of the questions in the second hour.
Other new justices Read More
The first interview with Sonia Sotomayor since her confirmation is up on CSPAN, and--with the interviewer prodding her to describe how she received news of her nomination, "for history"--Sotomayor says, basically, that she sat around her office in New York all day, waiting for the White House to call and then they never did.
So Read More
“Sale Should Lift the Nets Restraint$”-- there are five S’s in that headline and only one gets the dollar treatment. We can do better than that.
In any case, Fred Kerber is excited about the Russian tycoon Mikhail Prokhorov buying a majority share in the Nets. He calls Mr. Prokhorov “a lifeline,” and hopes Read More
Leslie Crocker Snyder said she has never asked anyone to vote for her because she’s a woman, but she's painting the race for Manhattan district attorney as an extension of her career-long fight against the “old boys network” and “glass ceilings” she says have held her and other women back for years.
Here’s an ad Michael Bloomberg’s campaign ran in the July 16 edition of El Diaro/La Prensa, featuring the image of Sonia Sotomayor.
It takes the form of a first-person message from Bloomberg, who says he’s proud to support Sotomayor for the Supreme Court and urges the Senate to confirm her.
“Lets make history,” he implores Read More
How many candidates for Congress—Democratic and Republican—have you heard loudly insist that they don’t believe in party labels, just in doing the right thing? And how many of them, once elected, end up voting with their party pretty much all the time?
It’s an absurd dance. Voters like hearing about “independence” and Read More
How many candidates for Congress—Democratic and Republican—have you heard loudly insist that they don’t believe in party labels, just in doing the right thing? And how many of them, once elected, end up voting with their party pretty much all the time? It’s an absurd dance. Voters like hearing about “independence” and “bipartisanship,” so candidates Read More
Fire up the Firefox! Beginning Monday, July 13, at 10 a.m., Judge Sonia Sotomayor is expected to give opening statements and face questioning from senators at her Supreme Court confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a former Yankees and Mets pitcher and the Manhattan district attorney are set to testify on her character. Read More
It remains unfathomable that Republicans, with their skimpy 40 votes, will actually be able to kill Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination. And, for all their frothing over her supposed “racism,” it remains puzzling why they’d even want to try: her nomination is widely popular with the public and, all things considered, she’s Read More
It remains unfathomable that Republicans, with their skimpy 40 votes, will actually be able to kill Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination. And, for all their frothing over her supposed “racism,” it remains puzzling why they’d even want to try: her nomination is widely popular with the public and, all things considered, she’s probably more moderate Read More
