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One Tough Klutz

As you may have heard by now, Judge Sonia Sotomayor is in a cast and on crutches after breaking her ankle:

Sotomayor was rushing through the hallways at LaGuardia to catch her flight when she injured her foot. He said she boarded her plane despite the injury and traveled to the Old Executive Office Building next to the White House before determining that she needed treatment.

Wow! She broke her ankle, and still managed to catch her flight and went to the White House?!? I will never doubt the toughness of anyone born and raised in the Bronx. How did her Secret Service detail let her get away with taking such poor care of herself? (I'm assuming that she already has Secret Service protection - does anyone know for sure?)

Apparently, she's not the first injury-prone Democratic nominee for the high court:

In 1993, when [Stephen] Breyer was a federal appeals-court judge in Boston, he had what is certainly the most famous bicycle accident in Supreme Court history. A few days before an interview with President Clinton for the vacancy on the Court created by Byron White's resignation, Breyer crashed while trying to avoid a pedestrian near his home in Cambridge, breaking a rib and puncturing a lung. He was in pain during the meeting with the President, and it didn't go well. Breyer was appointed the following year, after Harry Blackmun retired.

Well it could be worse for the Democrats. These Republicans are much bigger klutzes:

Full post as published by Supreme Dicta on June 09, 2009 (boomark / email).