Federal judge Sonia Sotomayor received a 13-6 endorsement from the Senate Judiciary Committee today, and according to the New York Times, her full-Senate confirmation "seems to be assured."

In an ongoing GalleyCat investigation, we've wondered what Sotomayor's affection for Nancy Drew means for a Supreme Court justice. Looking for more clues, Jezebel interviewed Chelsea Cain, author of "Confessions of a Teen Sleuth," about girl detective's politics.

Check it out: "There's no overt politics in Nancy Drew books. They're conservative, in the sense that the status-quo must be maintained. Order must be restored. Nancy's father -- world-renown attorney Carson Drew, certainly would have voted for Hoover. But Nancy herself has a liberal bent -- she is always lending a hand to orphans and the elderly -- a true Roosevelt democrat."