Sonia Sotomayor

"There's not a word in that statement that should have been controversial," Alito said. Sotomayor's statement, though, caused some consternation in liberal legal circles, Alito said. He said that one liberal law professor wrote that if Sotomayor truly believed that, "she is intellectually unqualified to be on the Supreme Court. If she was perjuring herself, she is morally unqualified."

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He said that one liberal law professor wrote that if Sotomayor truly believed that, "she is intellectually unqualified to be on the Supreme Court. If she was perjuring herself, she is morally unqualified."

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"I did not closely follow the Sonia Sotomayor nomination," said Fiorina.

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"You are a decent man and a devoted husband. I strongly suspect that, not withstanding the circumstances here, you may well be feeling a sense of guilt about what happened that night. In the eyes of the law, you bear no responsibility," said the judge. • Reporter Michael Crowley sat down in a restaurant the other night and found himself sitting two tables away from Sonia Sotomayor. Naturally, he sent out a Tweet, which read: "She left her purse on a chair; stern-faced security guys came back for it about 30 min later."

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Guzman said she once sought advice on her own marital problems from Sotomayor, who told her, "To find happiness in love ... we have to make up our own rules."

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"Mr. President, you have no idea what you've unleashed," Sotomayor replied, according to the article by her close friend Sandra Guzman, who was at the event.

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