LARRY ROIBAL

Ball point pen on the morning newsprint

Sonia Sotomayor will be the next Supreme Court Justice, as soon as those on the Senate Judiciary Committee are though showing off how much they know about the law.

Ball point pen on the morning newsprint

Judge Sotomayor goes before the Senate hearing this morning on her way to almost certain confirmation as the next U.S. Supreme Court Justice.

Most days I work at home, so my mornings consist of finding the paper on my front lawn, doodling a portrait or two over my morning coffee and heading up to my studio to start my day. But occasionally, on days like yesterday, I have to commute to New York for a model reference photo shoot. On those days I wake up early, do my morning doodle, blog, then head to New York. I always buy another paper because the New York tabloids always have more fodder for me to doodle. The excursion is a bumpy ride on overcrowded trains with poor suspensions. I guess it is an obsession because I still draw. It’s about a 35 minutes ride… This is how I passed the time. A bakers dozen doodles on yesterdays paper.

Ball point pen on the morning newsprint

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Ball point pen on the morning newsprint

President Obama nominates Sonia Sotomayor to replace retiring Justice David Sutor. If confirmed she will be the first Hispanic to serve on the Supreme Court. Sotomayor was born in the Bronx, New York and was raised in a housing project just a few blocks from Yankee Stadium. She earned her A.B. from Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude, and obtained her Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School where she was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. In 1991 Sotomayor was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and 1n 1997 she was nominated by President Bill Clinton to the US Court of Appeals.

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