HuffPo: Sonia Sotomayor: All You Need To Know

[LSK]

1. HER UPBRINGING: Judge Sonia Sotomayor has arguably lived the American dream. She was born to a Puerto Rican family and grew up in a public housing project in the South Bronx.

Her father was a factory worker with a third-grade education, and died when Sotomayor was nine years old. Her mother raised Sotomayor while working as a nurse. After her father's death, Sotomayor reportedly turned to books for solace, and she says it was her love of Nancy Drew books that ultimately led her to the law.

2. HER EDUCATION: Sotomayor graduated as valedictorian of her class at Blessed Sacrament and at Cardinal Spellman High School in New York. She won a scholarship to Princeton where she continued to excel, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She was a co-recipient of the M. Taylor Pyne Prize, the highest honor Princeton awards to an undergraduate. At Yale Law School, Judge Sotomayor served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal and as managing editor of the Yale Studies in World Public Order.

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4. HER JUDICIAL EXPERIENCE: As Tom Goldstein of SCOTUSBlog writes, "Almost all of her career has been in public service -- as a prosecutor, trial judge, and now appellate judge. She has almost no money to her name." The White House notes:

If confirmed for the Supreme Court, Judge Sotomayor would bring more federal judicial experience to the Supreme Court than any justice in 100 years, and more overall judicial experience than anyone confirmed for the Court in the past 70 years. ...

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/01/sonia-sotomayor-supreme-c_n_194470.html

[Wednesdays]

1. K&R

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[Raven]

2. There is not one person in the House or in the Senate who can hold a candle

to this exceptional, brilliant woman and there is not one of them who can come up with a better qualified candidate. NOT ONE. This woman is a testament to the grit and guts and substance of her family as well as herself but also, she is a hint of what America could be if it could only get out of its own way. I defy the Republicans or some of the asshole Dems to put anyone else forward who has done what this woman has done.

[Thothmes]

3. I wonder if the fact that she attended a Catholic High School

will disqualify her in the minds of some on this forum?

[Raven]

4. Well, I've been here since the beginning and I'm a Convent School girl...

and I mothered a Will Pitt and I worked very hard to defeat an entrenched pro life Repub Congressman up here... I think she'll overcome that disability. :-)

[Number23]

5. Work it, girl! She sounds wonderful

Happy to rec