Good thing the Supreme Court has its own gym!
When Justice Sonia Sotomayor needs to work off all the rice, beans and pork she’s consumed, she hits the gym.
Alas, it appears that Her Honor’s Equinox gym membership was canceled, after she apparently refused to show identification when trying to enter the premises. We’re with Justice Sotomayor on this: she’s a frickin’ federal judge, the closest thing this nation has to an aristocracy. Showing ID is for little people!
Sure, Barack Obama showed his birth certificate identification when he visited Equinox health clubs during the campaign. But he’s Article II — ick, having to run for election, how déclassé — and Justice Sotomayor is Article III, fabulous and life-tenured.
Luckily, the SCOTUS has its own gym — replete with a basketball court, aka “the highest court in the land.” And Justice Sotomayor won’t have to worry about being recognized at One First Street (where even the law clerks are recognized on sight by the Supreme Court police).
Sotomayor v. Equinox Fitness: The Case of the Canceled Membership [New York magazine]
(Gavel bang: commenter.)
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This is not a post on the PH NY Summer Associate massacre. Where is the post on the PH NY Summer Associate massacre?
second
they should all go to the gym
What the heck IS the PH summer associate massacre?
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3 - see the last 300 or so comments in the offer rate thread (http://abovethelaw.com/2009/08/summer_offer_rate_open_thread_2.php?show=comments#comment-1182265).
I love Latinas with a sense of entitlement!
(Moderator: I am not saying that all Latinas, or even most Latinas, have a sense of entitlement. Nor am I saying that Latinas as a group have a greater sense of entitlement than other groups. I am just saying that WHEN Latinas act entitled, I love them.)
What a whacko.
Taco-flavored kisses for the Equinox staff.
"I'm a justice you know what I mean...
And I do my little turn on the treadmill.
Yeah on the treadmill. On the treadmill -- yeah.
I do my little turn on the treadmill!
"I'm too sexy for my robe. Too sexy for my robe.
Too sexy by far.........
And I'm too sexy for the court.
Too sexy for the court, whatcha think about that?"
8 - BRAVA, BRAVA!
Lady Soto, you are my new favorite commenter.
Nice attempt at snark but I suggest you leave it to people with a talent for this like, Wonkette.
Nice attempt at snark but I suggest you leave it to people with a talent for this, like Wonkette.
11: lulz, this is lat, not elie
highly educated gay dudes are probably the snarkiest people alive
Rice, beans, and pork? WTF? Maybe we should all assume you love pork fried rice Lat. Douche bag. . .
+++.W+-o--nkette and Ken Layne suck donkey dick. That site is full of retards.
PH to 190
Soto needs to go on the R.B. Ginsburg diet.
13, your combined ignorance and sensitivity suggests you're a liberal. SHE SAID SHE LOVES RICE AND BEANS. Pay attention to the news, douchebag... or douchebagette.
And yes, Lat prob love por fry rie. So what? I do too.
FYI: “For me, a very special part of my being Latina is the mucho platos de arroz, gandoles y pernir — rice, beans and pork — that I have eaten at countless family holidays and special events.”
Don't steal my avatar.
You're not a wise Latina like me.
-- the real Lady Soto
I don't believe this story. There's no way she's ever been to a gym. Someone do a fact check.
"where even the law clerks are recognized on sight by the Supreme Court police"
Is this surprising? At both the (non-SCOTUS) federal courts where I clerked, the marshals knew all the clerks by sight. I don't think I showed ID after day one. There just aren't that many law clerks.
"work off all the rice, beans and pork she's consumed"
The remark is both contrived and lazy. Stereotyping can be funny, but not when it comes off as a tangential auto-include trying make an otherwise boring peice funny. (Much the same could be said about muffin-topping a "Wise Latina" T-shirt) Poorly executed, Lat.
There is no way that fat cow exercises.
15- yikes PH is down to 190 associates? those stealth layoffs are out of hand
12 is right. Gay people are nothing more than carbon copies of the same cartoonish stereotype.
Focus on important topics, people.
Paul Hastings NY
Shut the fuck up Mystal you worthless piece of shit.
It does not look like that woman has EVER seen the inside of a gym.
Lady Soto = David Lat = Roxana St. Thomas
Just a friendly reminder...
I'm not going anywhere :)
Interesting story
My wife saw me reading a post on ATL over the weekend and asked me what the draw to ATL was for me. I said "well, Kash, one of the editors, is cute." So my wife asked to see what Kash looked like and I clicked on the link at the top of the page for her bio. My wife's reaction: "Eh, she looks like Amy Fisher from around the time she shot Buttafuoco's wife in the face". And thus, Kash is no longer on my to-do list.
As someone who has never seen the inside of a gym, I have to agree with 27.
Not sure why Lat is reporting on this though. He's only seen the inside of a Jim.
32: brilliant. needs more typos though.
32 made funny!
26: tcr
Mystal, welcome back!!! Now please detail your diet over vacation.
LMAO Soto is insane Google it http://www.google.com
She should try gold mining, really works off the rice and beans!
Zug Zug!
we have closer things to an aristocracy.
we have closer things to an aristocracy.
23 - PH raising salaries is just the kind of dipshit move they would make. Certainly not expecting it, but nothing would surprise me coming out of that place.
She's no Harriet Miers.
C'mon, Obama was Article I during the period in question.