It appears that Justice Sotomayor will not be a shrinking violet. She brought her Bronx moxie with her to the Court yesterday. According to the LA Times,
Sotomayor peppered the lawyers with questions in a pair of cases, joining with Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg during the oral arguments. Together, they left the other justices sitting in silence for much of the time. In the first hour alone, Sotomayor asked 36 questions, and Scalia followed with 30. Ginsburg is particularly interested in legal procedures, and she and Sotomayor dominated the questioning for much of the second hour.
Imagine how much Sotomayor would have had to say if she, like Ginsburg, were particularly interested in legal procedures!