Penn Quarter has a new and famous resident: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).

President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden were sworn into their second terms in office earlier today in private ceremonies.

Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor dislikes D.C. takeout but likes U Street, which she compares to the East Village.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor managed to skip the lines and cast her ballot in D.C. today.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor recently purchased a two-bedroom condo on the U Street corridor, all but assuring us that she’ll eventually be caught reading legal briefs at Ben’s Chili Bowl.

Freshly sworn in U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was spotted (and captured in a grainy video by a FOX camera) celebrating with friends and family at Chinatown’s Irish Channel Pub on Monday night. That Sotomayor went out dancing and sang karaoke in a local bar makes us supremely happy. We have high hopes that the justice will quickly become a visible fixture in our city. But Sonia, sweetheart, the Irish Channel? The last…

No big surprise here, but the U.S. Senate just voted 68-31 to confirm Sonia Sotomayor as the next U.S. Supreme Court Justice. Sotomayor will be the first Hispanic and only the third female justice ever. Whether the justice would be confirmed was never really in much doubt; the biggest piece of news out of the vote was maybe that ailing Sen. Robert Byrd managed to show up to cast his vote. But the inevitability of…