The Fictional Lawyer That Inspired Justice Sonia Sotomayor

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I’m watching Perry Mason and I realize, wait a minute, half the show is him investigating … what his client did … and the other half is in the courtroom. Well, maybe that’s something I can do, too.

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—Justice Sonia Sotomayor, at a Zoom event hosted by Lincoln School in partnership with the Rhode Island Center for the Book, on what inspired her to become a lawyer. She also revealed that her love of Nancy Drew made her want to be a detective, but at the time, her diabetes diagnosis prevented that from being a career option. And so the nation was blessed with the legal mind of Sonia Sotomayor.

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