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Watch TIME's video "Sonia Sotomayor: Bronx (and Baseball) Role Model...
Obama referred to Sotomayor's "qualities" and "qualifications," but he was a lot more interested in the former than the latter. She grew up in the South Bronx, got diabetes at 8, lost her father at 9 and fought her way to Princeton and the federal bench thanks to a strong-willed mother who procured the "only set of encyclopedias in the neighborhood." She has "a common touch and a sense of compassion, an understanding of how the world works and how ordinary people live." Obama has spoken of wanting judges with "empathy...
...decision to nullify the tests. The panel did so in a one-paragraph blow-off that ignored a host of pressing constitutional issues and was striking for its lack of empathy, compassion and all those noble qualities that are supposed to come with growing up in the South Bronx. The case is now before the U.S. Supreme Court, which could well overturn the decision in the next few weeks...
Whether or not you like racial preferences, they involve a way of looking at the law that is sophisticated rather than commonsensical. If the New Haven opinion is fair, it is the kind of fairness you learn at Yale Law School, not the kind you learn in the South Bronx. Sotomayor may be a child of the barrio, culturally speaking, but the judicial philosophy she represents comes from the mandarin, not the proletarian, wing of the Democratic Party...
...Born in the Bronx in 1940, to parents whom he later claimed had been first cousins. Spector's father committed suicide when his son was 12. In 1958, when he was 17, Spector formed a band called the Teddy Bears. Their first hit was a B-side called "To Know Him Is to Love Him" (taken from the inscription on Spector's father's tombstone...