I am growing to love DC. But the core of Sonia is a New Yorker.

I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.

To the extent that the parents who send their children to these [Catholic] schools are parents like my own, who actually have faith in the church. Faith that it will provide their children with safety, a decent education and values about life and others. This is an institution that stands for all good in the world.

The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.

I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.

I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences.

My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.