Justice Sonia Sotomayor didn’t take long to milk her "historic" rise to the U.S. Supreme Court by negotiating a million-dollar plus deal for publication of her memoir, a grandiose view of herself set out in print before she served five minutes on the Court.
The attention she is getting is amazing and entirely unwarranted. The self-described "wise Latina" is one calculating and shrewd Latina who has parlayed the ethnic politics that pole-vaulted her onto that Court into a road show. With the help of a fawning liberal media gladly serving as her publicity and marketing agents, we get the weekly headlines telling us where and on what stage the celebrity is speaking next.
