WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor broke her ankle Monday morning in an airport stumble.
The federal judge, who has been keeping up a busy set of appointments on Capitol Hill, tripped at New York’s LaGuardia Airport and suffered a small fracture to her right ankle, the White House said.
She was keeping her six appointments with senators despite the injury. She entered the Capitol for a meeting with Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, on crutches, wearing a white cast. Asked how she was feeling, Sotomayor said, “I feel fine, thank you.”
By day’s end Monday, she will have met with one-third of the Senate in just four days of visits.
The White House is pressing for her quick confirmation, and Sotomayor wasn’t pausing much for distractions, even her own trip-up. She even stopped at the White House on Monday before heading to a medical office for an X-ray.
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