when it comes to sonia sotomayor, what do you mean by that?no one gets to the supreme court by accident. she, from the start, once she became a federal judge on the lower court, looked forward to that and had built networks along the way. what i did in the book was sort of trace her trajectory with the rise of latinas in america but also through the politics of justice, how one gets on a district court, was elevated to the appeals court and then, in 2009, is this breakthrough justice, first hispanic appointed by the first african-american president. >> ifill: and a disruptive justice, in many ways. >> people who don't realty know the supreme court don't understand the decorum, the hierarchies that exist there. it struck me that here was this justice who could have shattered a lot of that. if you follow her as i did, in san juan, for example, on her own book tour, you saw tons of people lining up to see her. i was so struck about how different it was in san juan compared to where she spends most of her time in this model palace where everybody

sonia sotomayor approached her and justice ginsburg shakes her head and says i don't want to get up and dance and justice sotomayor says marty would have wanted you to. marty ginsburg was a very big personality. he was the kind of person who was the life of the party. and then she puts her hands up to justice sotomayor's cheek and says thank you. that was another moment, it was very emotional. it was uncomfortable. some people were not sure what to make of it. moseley's they liked it. i think most people liked it. some thought wake a minute, but it was a great thing to find out about and i am glad i did. >> host: joan biskupic, you write about justice sotomayor, the justices varied in their personal assessment as is natural with any group, some found her warm, amiable, others counter abrupt and exasperated. these differences were not small in a larger scheme of the law they were. >> isn't that interesting? that paragraph took some time to figure out what to say because i don't want to make a big deal about a personality clash when it is really not a big deal when it comes to the law and

." >> host: in your most recent book "breaking in: the rise of sonia sotomayor and the politics of justice," you quote somebody saying i knew she would be trouble. what's that from? >> guest: that was my earlier subject, antonin scalia who said it kiddingly after justice on the sotomayor shook up a party by getting all the justices to dance the salsa with her. i use it to set the scene of a contrast it's been between the woman who i is a genuine, somersaults come into this institution that's a wonderfully traditional, used to certain rhythms. the rhythms frankly our salsa. she did this wonderful display that shut everybody up at this end of term party and justice scalia who watched it come a summit usually shakes people up, right? said i knew she would be trouble. he said it kiddingly but it's a perfect line for all a bit of what greeted her. >> host: were you allowed to go to the party? >> guest: no, no. it was tough to get the information. you know, peter, how secretive this court is. a lot of people aren't aware of how we never know what goes on in a conference on cases. journalists are

sonia sotomayor is also roman catholic.he was raised roman catholic and she doesn't vote with them on most of these tough social issues. the three others in the liberal wing happen to be jewish. everybody has a different degree in how they adhere to their religious thinking, how much they abide. a couple of times i will see justices coming out on ash wednesday -- coming out with ashes on ash wednesday. what they would say to a person is they don't. let me tell you something about catholicism. william brennan was a catholic and he was one of the strongest supporters of abortion rights. so i can't say that this breaks down on religious grounds for their reasoning but it does break down as a matter of identification that the five catholics would vote more conservatively and the three jewish justices along with sonia sotomayor tend to vote more liberally. i do have to say that i think it tells us about the place of religion in america that when barack obama according to elena kagan -- to succeed our last her religion wasn't an

sonia sotomayor is a hair one of heroine of mine.e court has been well served in the people have been well served by their service on the supreme court are >> summit you could not vote to confirm? anton scalia is out of the mainstream and he is a sitting member of the supreme court. service,ive with a but when you look at the citizens united decision, which overturned 100 year of settle law and has resulted in this normal avalanche of campaign outside money, one of the cases maybe -- >> we are exceeding the short answer here. is the biggest nonissue in your mind that congress q's debating needlessly? >> benghazi. >> short answer, very good. >> looks, the families of these countries deserve an answer on benghazi. --is outrageous that >> before we go down that rabbit hole again, the questions you, congressman, is an issue that congress is debating needlessly. a nonissue. >> a number of republicans continued to bash renewable , and i've spoken time and time again on behalf of supporting renewable energy. let me like this issue of bengha

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furthermore, they supported her because they believe that she would vote against sonia sotomayor and elena kagan as justices who support the same kind of commonsense controls on guns that we have here in oregon. i do believe we have the right answer. the oregon answer. it is background checks to keep and thet of criminals mentally ill. >> i think we have adequate laws on the books, we just need to be enforcing the ones that we have. >> i gave to questions in a row so we will send the next two to you to get back on track. >> you have been described as a progressive champion and a close ally of massachusetts senator elizabeth warren. you have been linked to the koch brothers and conservative wing of the party. are you guys comfortable with these labels? >> i am comfortable with the label of progressive if it means are fighting for working families to get a fair share of the wealth. absolutely. if it means you're fighting to enable students to refinance their loans to take advantage of the current low interest rates. if it means new student loans will be at the same low interest rates t

. >>> supreme court justice us sonia sotomayor was on the campus of san jose state speaking to a sold-out crowd. the topic was her memoir "my beloved world" based on sotomayor's journey from the bronx projects to the nation's highest court. the justice and author talked about her experiences can kidly. at one point reminding the audience she sees her memoir as therapy. she also had some advice for students. >> don't go through college and law school the way we did. slow yourself down enough to really talk to people about who they are inside of themselves. that is really, really something i regret. >> sotomayor is the first latino u.s. supreme court justice, serving since august 2009. >>> still ahead, she's the call girl accused in the death of a google executive. her attorneys have a new defense for what led up to that deadly dose of heroin. >>> you know, i know you're an expert at headlines. and i know where you're trying to get. and you're not going to get that headline from me. >> she's the chancellor of a major bay area community college district. making headlines with decisions she m

president clinton and president bush do okay as does snoop dogg and supreme court justice sonia sotomayore. nolan ryan, one of the greatest pitchers of all time. what's going on there? michael jordan -- michael jordan, really? if you have a choice against playing basketball or basketball against him, you know what to do. so that's the disappointing world of mortals. even famous and talented mortals when it comes to ceremonial first pitches. and then there's what happened this weekend. saturday night. i'm at my parent's house. mom's making dinner. game is on. ceremonial first pitch. we all think this is going to be horrible. they have some 13-year-old kid who is going to do the first pitch. should have listened closer to who it was. >> pressure? pressure? no big deal. 13 years old. didn't stand in front of the mound on the grass like everybody else. took the actual mound. fired away from full pro distance. took in the full capacity roaring world series crowd. threw an effortless hard strike right over the plate. fist bump. done. nonchalant. flawless. should have paid attention to who it wa

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us -- appointed sonia sotomayor for the united states. [indiscernible] they're going to politicize this because the republican cm advantage. -- cm advantage. host: when did you come from sierra leone to virginia? caller: the last time i was there was 2003. host: do you still have family there? caller: yes. host: what do they say about the situation on the ground? from andhere i came that part of the country, they are doing good. this disease is not threatened them at all. hopefully, they will take care of it before it reaches that part of the country. they are calling for a flight ban. it is driving us away from the republican party and we will not forget this. nine -- we might not be a valuable voting bloc for the united states but this will be a loss. host: next on the line is jay from sine valley, california who is a republican caller. caller: good morning, c-span. i want to come at this from another direction. i spent 10 years in the nuclear industry on 20 more and the hazardous waste cleanup. we have had to spend significant , puttin

their books, their books, okay, sonia sotomayor made at least three million dollars off of her book. justice scalia has made, tens of thousands, if not, hundreds of thousands off of all his books that he does in coordination with west publishing which is part of thomson reuters. so maybe i'm sort of getting rich through scalia? i don't think so. or scalia is getting rich through thomson reuters. i don't know. they can make unlimited income off of their books. and, many of them are authors. but then they have a certain limit on honoraria they can take for speaking. it is 25,000 roughly. >> host: joan biskupic. joan biskupic.com is the website. biographies on justices scalia, sotomayor and o'connor. . .