Ex-Governour of Illinois, current 44th (could it be a lucky number?) President of the United States, Barack Obama named Sonia Sotomayor as a nominee for the highest court of law. This morning, May 26th, Obama choose the Hispanic judge, aged 54, for the Supreme Court. As the statement appeared from two sources of USA TODAY, it is official that U.S. President Barack Obama nominated Judge Sotomayor for appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court, replacing retiring Justice David Souter. Some doubted the news, but on the other hand this is not the first initiative by Obama that surprises some.
Sonia Sotomayor
Sotomayor is based in New York City. President Clinton appointed her to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals back in 1998.
Sonia Sotomayor graduated from Cardinal Spellman High School in the Bronx. She earned her A.B. from Princeton University, summa cum laude, in 1976, where she won the Pyne Prize, the highest general award given to Princeton undergraduates.[7] Sotomayor obtained her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1979, where she was an editor of the Yale Law Journal.
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Sotomayor then served as an Assistant District Attorney under prominent New York County District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, prosecuting robberies, assaults, murders, police brutality, and child pornography cases. In 1984, she entered private practice, making partner at the commercial litigation firm of Pavia & Harcourt, where she specialized in intellectual property litigation.
President Obama is to introduce Sotomayor at 10:15 a.m. in the East Room. Like I said above, this decision may be a bit of a surprise to some, and needless so thay most of these “some” are conservative groups. Wendy E. Long (Judicial Conformation Network) avoiding to directly doubt Obama’s judgment, did state however that she finds the agenda of Sonia politically incorrect. She said the judge is “a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important than the law as written.” Democrats, on the other side, see this choice with good eyes, so the outcome might be positive and in the Hispanic judge’s favour.
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