WASHINGTON AP – A funny thing happened on Sonia Sotomayor’s drive to Washington to be announced as President Barack Obama’s first Supreme Court nominee: She got lost.

The Supreme Court’s first Hispanic justice told C-SPAN that a friend drove her from New York City to the District of Columbia the night before her appearance at the White House with Obama. She was furiously working on her speech during what is normally a four-hour drive when a torrential rainstorm enveloped the highway.