President Barack Obama looks on as his Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday May 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais )President Obama Tuesday nominated a federal appellate judge who could become the first Hispanic U.S. Supreme Court justice and the third woman to serve on the high court.
If confirmed by the Democratic-controlled Senate, judge Sonia Sotomayor, 54, would replace Justice David H. Souter to become the second woman on the court and the third female justice in the history of the Supreme Court, according to media reports. She also would be the first Hispanic justice to serve on the Supreme Court.
Sotomayor, who is on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, was named a U.S. District Court judge by President George H. Bush in 1992 and was elevated to her current seat by President Bill Clinton, CNN reported.
From the projects to the Ivy League
Sotomayor reportedly grew up at a housing project in the South Bronx, raised by her mother after her father died when she was 9 years old.
She went on to graduate from Princeton University summa cum laude in 1976 and and attend Yale Law School, where she was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, the New York Times reported. She spent five years as a prosecutor with the Manhattan district attorney’s office before entering private practice.
Sotomayor's parents left Puerto Rico decades ago to settle in New York. Her father, a factory worker, was from the Santurce area of San Juan. Her mother, a nurse, was from Lajas, AP reported. She has a younger brother.
The GOP has a cow
Conservative groups blasted Obama's choice.
Whoa, I didn't see that coming...
Liberal.
Woman.
Hispanic.
Need anyone say more?
I wonder what trash Republicans will dig up from pre-historic times to use as an excuse to reject this nomination, given that they can't utter their true objections, at least not in public. It will be interesting to watch how this situation develops during upcoming months.
Meanwhile, Rush Limbaugh, who must be frrreaking out, will continue to freak out...maybe even fall off the wagon if he's not careful. You need to pace yourself, Rush. Obama is just getting started.
Sources: CNN, The New York Times, The Associated Press
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Highly entretaining! I love how in the first half of the article you inform the news and then in the section of The Gop has a Cow, you let yourself be. Is like: Ok, I know now what the news are, lets hear what G has to say about it... I simply love it 'cause it creates an anticipation of what is coming... Excelent!
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