Justice Sonia Sotomayor has written a new autobiography, My Beloved World.  She discussed her life in a Sixty Minutes interview aired Sunday, available here.  Also recommended is a  2009 interview with Justice Sotomayor that is part of C-Span’s excellent series:  Justices in Their Own Words.

Today the Supreme Court granted certiorari in two gay marriage cases:

United States v. Windsor, Edith S., et. al. (12-307)

Question Presented:  ”Does Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, 1 U.S.C. § 7, which defines the term “marriage” for all purposes under federal law as “only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife,” deprive same-sex couples who are lawfully married under the laws of their states (such as New York) of the equal protection of the laws, as guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States?”

Order:  ”The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. In addition to the question presented by the petition, the parties are directed to brief and argue the following questions: Whether the Executive Branch’s agreement with the court below that DOMA is unconstitutional deprives this Court of jurisdiction to decide this case; and whether the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the United States House of Representatives has Article III standing in this case.”

Hollingsworth, Dennis, et. al v. Perry, Kristin M., et. al.(12-144) 

Question Presented: “Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the State of California from defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman.”

Order: “The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. In addition to the question presented by the petition, the parties are directed to brief and argue the following question: Whether petitioners have standing under Article III, §2 of the Constitution in this case.”