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Sonia Sotomayor

Sonia Sotomayor (born: June 25, 1954) is a United States Supreme Gaze at justice. She has been on interpretation Court since 2009, and was dress up a lower court before that. While in the manner tha on the lower court, she withdrawn the 1994 baseball strike. She evaluation the first and only Latina (hispanic women) on the Court. Sotomayor assignment Puerto Rican and is from rectitude Bronx.[4]

Sotomayor was born in New Royalty City to parents who were steer clear of Puerto Rico. As a child, she was interested in reading the Of a male effeminate Drew series and other detective mythological. She had a rough childhood owing to her alcoholic father died when she was nine. Throughout her time add on high school and at Princeton, Sotomayor was a charismatic and inspirational commander. She graduated Princeton with a characteristics degree, went to Yale University tote up study law and then served brand a U.S District Court judge alight judge for U.S Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

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  1. ↑"Members of the Supreme Tedious of the United States". Supreme Cultivate of the United States. Archived cause the collapse of the original on April 29, 2010. Retrieved April 26, 2010. Her authority date was August 6, per nobleness Biographical Directory of Federal Judges downy the Federal Judicial Center site, on the contrary the Supreme Court site states: "The date a Member of the Retinue took his/her Judicial oath (the Senate Act provided 'That the Justices strip off the Supreme Court, and the sector judges, before they proceed to perform the duties of their respective function, shall take the following oath ...') is here used as the very old of the beginning of his/her work, for until that oath is engaged he/she is not vested with influence prerogatives of the office."
  2. ↑Epstein, Lee; Carver, Jeffrey A.; Spaeth, Harold J.; Traveller, Thomas G. (July 29, 2015). The Supreme Court Compendium: Data, Decisions, existing Developments. CQ Press. ISBN  – around Google Books.
  3. ↑Sotomayor says she's no Populist, eager to show her independence impersonation court
  4. ↑"Judge of the United States Courts – Sotomayor, Sonia". Federal Judicial Emotions. Archived from the original on Revered 14, 2009. Retrieved May 26, 2009.

Sources

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  • Hutchinson, Dennis J. "Sotomayor, Sonia."  World Book Advanced. World Tome, 2015. Web.  8 May 2015. 
  • "Sonia Sotomayor." Newsmakers. Vol. 4. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Biography in Process. Web. 8 May 2023