Legal Beat

A broken ankle didn't prevent Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor from starting her visits with senators on time on Monday.

Our CQ colleague Bart Jansen reports that Sotomayor arrived at the office of Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, for her first meeting of the day sporting crutches and a cast from her knee down on her right leg, though still managed to have a high heel shoe on her left foot.

Sotomayor fell and broke a small bone in her ankle Monday morning at La Guardia Airport in New York on her way back to Washington, said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs. But she isn't letting the injury interfere with her break-neck schedule of meetings on Capitol Hill.

In addition to Grassley, Sotomayor is scheduled to meet with five other senators on Monday: Max Baucus, D-Mont., Kay Hagan, D-N.C., Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., David Vitter, R-La., and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H.