sonia sotomayor
If Obama becomes president, his first nominee to the Supreme Court will likely be Sonia Sotomayor. [1]
Sonia Sotomayor is reportedly on Barack Obama’s short-list for the Supreme Court. [2]
Born June 25, 1954 in New York, Sonia Sotomayor has traveled far beyond the Bronx projects where she grew up to become the first Puerto Rican woman to serve as a U.S. Circuit Court judge. [3]
Sonia Sotomayor is a judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. [4]
She has been named by numerous media outlets, including CNN and Esquire Magazine, as a virtual shoe-in for nomination to the Supreme Court upon the retirement of one of several aging Supreme Court justices (John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and possibly several others). [2]
Sotomayor is the first Puerto Rican woman to serve as a U.S. Circuit Court judge. [4]
According to a blog post by conservative activist Ed Whelan, Sotomayor’s nomination was part of a deal President Bush made with Republican Senator Al D’Amato and Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, and it was Moynihan who suggested Sotomayor’s name to President Bush. [5]
And because Sotomayor has a reputation for staying behind the scenes and sits on a federal bench known for its centrism, it’s likely that she would be able to garner a two-thirds majority in the Senate, even if the Democrats only control an estimated 55 or so seats. [1]
‘When I was nine or ten, I became enamored of Nancy Drew stories and I wanted to be an investigative detective like her,’ Judge Sotomayor recalls. [...] She went on to Yale Law School where she was the editor of the law journal and received her J.D. degree in 1979. [3]
In 1991, Sotomayor was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. [2]
Plus there’s an insurance measure if the nomination gets too politicized publicly: Sotomayor was appointed to the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in 1992 by President George H. W. Bush. [1]
With her stellar credentials, she had her pick of law schools to attend and chose to go to Yale Law School, where she was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. [...] In 1997, she was nominated by President Bill Clinton to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and confirmed by the Senate in 1998. [2]
Lott and Jones noted that Sotomayor was rated only “moderate” or “neutral,” rather than “conservative,” in a survey by the Almanac of the Federal Judiciary of courtroom lawyers regarding the political views of the judges they encounter in their litigation. [5]
Sources:
[1] Sonia Sotomayor - Esquire
[2] Sonia Sotomayor: Obama’s First Supreme Court Appointment? ” Right Pundits
[3] Division for Public Education: National Hispanic Heritage Month …
[4] Sonia Sotomayor - Mahalo
[5] Sonia Sotomayor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia