New in Confirmation Tales: Sonia Sotomayor's Confirmation Vote ... and a few more nuggets. —Sotomayor’s strange belief that there are no adjectives in Spanish. —Sotomayor’s quota mentality for judgeships. —Sotomayor’s celebration of the “importance of indefiniteness in the law.” —The White House’s scramble, immediately after Obama announced that he had picked Sotomayor, to assure abortion supporters that she was a strong supporter of Roe v. Wade. —Sotomayor’s past as a Puerto Rican nationalist and her later support for (in the words of one critic) an “affirmative action plan for Puerto Rico” statehood. —Sotomayor’s revelation, in her written responses to post-hearing questions, that her testimony that judges must “not make the law” was meaningless wordplay. Link to full post in reply.