If nothing else, the Tweet from the Drudge Report certainly caught my attention:

Sotomayor joined elite secretive, women-only group...

What is this secretive group, I wondered? The Illuminati? Opus Dei? An NPR member station?

The link sent me to Kenneth Vogel's piece in Politico, where I learned that Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee to succeed David Souter on the Supreme Court, has joined the Belizean Grove, "an elite but little-known women's-only group."

Founded nearly 10 years ago as the female answer to the Bohemian Grove — a secretive all-male club whose members have included former U.S. presidents and top business leaders — the Belizean Grove has about 125 members, including Army generals, Wall Street executives and former ambassadors. ...

The group — which on its website describes itself as "a constellation of influential women who are key decision makers in the profit, nonprofit and social sectors; who build long-term, mutually beneficial relationships in order to both take charge of their own destinies and help others to do the same" — hosts periodic meetings around New York, as well as an annual off-the-record three-day retreat in Central or South America at which its members attend cocktail parties with U.S. diplomats and host-country officials and participate in panel discussions on public policy and business affairs. ...

While conspiracy theorists have cast the Bohemian Grove as a cog in a shadowy right-leaning globalist cabal, [Stony Brook University dean Mary] Pearl said the Belizean Grove is nonpartisan and stressed, "There's nothing nefarious about it."

And [group founder Susan] Stautberg brushed off a question about whether the Grove's women-only membership could generate controversy as the Bohemian Grove's exclusively male membership did in 1979, when the state of California sued the club for not hiring female employees as its facility there.

Prediction: This will not affect her chances for confirmation.