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President Obama made history in 2009 when he nominated Bronx native Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. If confirmed, Sotomayor would become the court's first Hispanic justice.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor never aspired to have a seat in the nation's highest court because she had no idea what the Supreme Court was growing up. "Y ou can't aspire to do things you don't know about," Sotomayor told graduates from New York University last week.
"Just keep dreaming," Sotomayor told the graduates on May 16, 2012.
The cousin of US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was mugged in The Bronx by two thugs who took her iPhone, a police source said yesterday. Erin Sotomayor, 28, was walking down the stairs into the Tremont Avenue subway station on Grand Concourse at about 11 a.m. Thursday when...
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor had three opening words as she addressed the graduates of New York University on Wednesday who were holding their ceremony at Yankee Stadium. “This is a-w-e-some. “I grew up in a public housing project in the Bronx just a few...
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor gave graduating NYU students a New York rhapsody Wednesday — while standing on second base at Yankee Stadium.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor came home to the Bronx Wednesday for New York University's commencement ceremony at Yankee Stadium, marveling at the circumstances leading to her return. "This is awesome," Sotomayor told the 8,000 graduates in purple robes cheering from the stands behind home plate...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor addressed 15,000 student graduates at New York University's 180th commencement ceremony Wednesday at Yankee Stadium.
Marcia Angell, reply by Ronald Dworkin Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Getty Images President Obama with Supreme Court Justices John Roberts, Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, and Sonia Sotomayor before his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill, January 24, 2012 To the Editors : I admire Ronald Dworkin greatly, and I certainly defer to him on most legal matters, so it is with ...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is back in the Bronx for New York University's commencement ceremony at Yankee Stadium.
The American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary has begun its peer-review of nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the position of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
“The most important and alarming facet of Lugar’s defeat,” writes Jonathan Chait, is that one of Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock’s key arguments against Sen. Richard Lugar was that Lugar had voted to confirm Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. This is a step towards breaking one of the last, and perhaps most important, social norms of the Senate: That “in the absence ...
Jonathan Chait : "The most important and alarming facet of Lugar's defeat , and a factor whose importance is being overlooked at the moment, is one of the things Mourdock cited against him: Lugar voted to confirm two of Obama's Supreme Court nominees. Obviously, Lugar would not have chosen to nominate an Elena Kagan or a Sonia Sotomayor. But he was following a longstanding practice of extending ...
Listening to the oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on Arizona's breathing-while-brown law, Senate Bill 1070, prompted a daydream. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Antonin Scalia are in a battered pickup truck with garden tools visible in the back. Set in the midst of Sheriff Joe Ar...
Jane Lubchenco and Glenn Tilton are not exactly star-quality names like those who have stood behind USC podiums the past two years - former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, GOP presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman and Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke.
When Sonia Sotomayor made history in 2009 by becoming the first Latina named to the Supreme Court, Hispanics were overjoyed.
The U.S. Supreme Court seems inclined to back at least a portion of Arizona's xenophobic immigration law, which countenances racial profiling. Even Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a member of the court's liberal wing and its first Hispanic, signaled to the Obama administration, which has opposed the law, that its arguments were "not selling very well," according to The New York Times.That's too bad ...
