When Sonia Sotomayor got THE CALL, she says her heart started racing and she started crying.
President Barack Obama had called on her cell phone to say she was his first pick for the U.S. Supreme Court.
“I actually stood by my balcony doors, and I had … my cell phone in my right hand and I had my left hand over my chest trying to calm my beating heart,” Sotomayor, now a Supreme Court Justice, said in an interview with the cable television network C-SPAN.
On that evening in late May, Sotomayor said, “I caught my breath and started to cry and said, ‘Thank you, Mr. President’.” Her public admission of emotion was uncharacteristically candid for a sitting Supreme Court Justice.
And then she faced her first hurdle on the road to confirmation — getting to Washington.
