Justice Sonia Sotomayor

Can’t a Supreme Court justice just get some decent take-out in this town? That’s all Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor seems to want of D.C., as she told the New York Times in an article published today:

“I go to New York, I order food, it’s at my door in 10 to 15 minutes. O.K.?” she said in an interview in her Supreme Court chambers. In Washington, she said, “there isn’t a place I call where it doesn’t take 45 minutes.”

D.C. takeout joints: consider yourselves called out. Sotomayor also laments the security at the Supreme Court, saying that when the food finally arrives, it’s held at security until she can come down and retrieve it. At that point, “the food is ice-cold.”

In the interview, which coincided with the release of her memoir, My Beloved World, Sotomayor also explains why she chose to buy a two-bedroom condo just off of U Street (she’s also a local voter!):

She has moved to a scruffy part of town, near U Street in Northwest Washington.

“It has a touch of the East Village in it,” she said. “I picked it because it’s mixed. I walk out and I see all kinds of people, which is the environment I grew up in and the environment I love.”

“U Street: D.C.’s ‘scruffy’ East Village” has a nice ring to it, huh?