She gets to play with the ball,a first time she has touched one.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor will return to her hometown for New Year’s Eve to help lead one of New York City’s best known rituals: the ball drop in Times Square. She will press the crystal button on Tuesday night to lower the ball and lead the 60-second countdown to midnight, organizers of the event said on Sunday. She will be the first United States Supreme Court justice to do so.
Justice Sotomayor, who is from the Bronx and joined the court in 2009, has often spoken of her love for New York City. This year, she complained that ordering takeout was much slower in Washington than in New York, and said that she still jaywalked like a New Yorker.