This just in, courtesy The Associated Press:
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has broken her ankle in an "airport stumble en route to Senate meetings." Sotomayor, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals who has been nominated by President Obama to succeed retiring Justice David Souter, fractured her ankle at New York's LaGuardia Airport before taking the shuttle to Washington, where she had a busy schedule of meetings with senators.
The White House says she will keep her six appointments, according to the AP report.
Earlier today, on ABC's Good Morning America, former first lady Laura Bush said of Sotomayor, "I think she sounds like a very interesting and good nominee. ... As a woman, I'm proud that there might be another woman on the court. I wish her well."
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