Obama Nominates Woman For Supreme Court

May 26. 2009

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President Barack Obama has nominated the first Hispanic woman in U.S. history, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, for the Supreme Court. It has been a presidency of many firsts.

If appointed, I hope the choices she renders will be fair, just, truthful and not led by browbeating from other justices. If appointed, I hope you will stand up for the downtrodden and not be persuaded by anything other than the truth. 

Judge Sonia Sotomayor

The current court has failed too many people, from scores of disease sufferers to death row inmates pleading their innocence. Being on the Supreme Court will sometimes place you in situations where litigants' lives are at stake.

It's not a job to make the wrong decisions on, especially in life and death matters, as whatever decision you render regarding individuals, which will undoubtedly effect their families as well, God will return to you and your family.

NY judge rises from projects to the Supreme Court

Tuesday, May 26, 2009; 8:37 AM - NEW YORK -- Sonia Sotomayor's path to the pinnacle of the legal profession began in the 1960s at a Bronx housing project just a couple blocks from Yankee Stadium, where she and her family dealt with one struggle after another.

She suffered juvenile diabetes that forced her to start insulin injections at age 8. Her father died the next year, leaving her to be raised by her mother _ a nurse at a methadone clinic who always kept a pot of rice and beans on the stove. The parents had immigrated from Puerto Rico.

Sotomayor immersed herself in Nancy Drew books and spent hours watching Perry Mason on television, and knew she wanted to be a judge by the age of 10 after being inspired by a Perry Mason episode that ended with the camera settling on the robed sage...

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