Sen. David Vitter: Still a thoroughgoing creep

Not every senator was charmed by Sotomayor. The day she broke her ankle, she kept an appointment with Senator David Vitter, a Republican from Louisiana. Vitter, Sotomayor later told a friend, was unwelcoming. As they were finishing their meeting, Vitter said, "I want to ask you—do you think if I was you, and I had made the wise-Latina comment that you made, that I would have deserved to be a Supreme Court Justice?"

Sotomayor replied, "If you had my record, yes."

From Lauren Collins's comprehensive profile of Sonia Sotomayor in the current New Yorker. Remember family values Republican David Vitter; he had an illicit relationship with Deborah Jeane Palfrey. Palfrey was found hanged in a storage shed behind her mother's mobile home, whereas David Vitter is still a United States Senator.

So he may or may not have learned something about justice.