Sotomayor Trivia

or maybe not so trivial. From TPM:

...Bill Clinton nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the Court of Appeals in late June of 1997, and she wasn't confirmed until early the following October, almost 16 months later--Republicans were worried at the time that she was being primed for placement on the Supreme Court, and, over a decade later, their fears have come to pass.

UPDATE: Mara Liasson (of NPR and FOX News [!]) thinks the little slide show the White House put up is part of the spin campaign. Nina Tottenburg accused her of cynicism. Me, I think they are being thorough and pre-empting the inevitable media requests. Liasson needs to get off NPR and stop pretending she's capable of anything but Village People journalism.