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...replace retiring Justice David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court. Sonia Sotomayor, who would be the first Latino on the high court, emerged from a more hardscrabble background than have most jurists who reach the top rungs of America's legal system. Sotomayor, 54, was raised by Puerto Rican parents in a South Bronx housing project a few miles from the old Yankee Stadium. Her father, a tool-and-die maker who died when Sotomayor was 9, had a third-grade education and spoke only Spanish; her mother worked as a nurse at a methadone clinic and bought the neighborhood...
...just very smart, she's very likable ... She's very down-to-earth." - Cesar Perales, president of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund. (New York Daily News...
...confirmed by the Senate, after all, would be hard enough. But at a time when the party has already alienated Hispanic voters, the GOP knows it has to tread very carefully in dealing with the first Hispanic candidate for the nation's highest court, especially a woman of Puerto Rican descent with an inspiring Horatio Alger story of her own. (See pictures of Judge Sonia Sotomayor...
...Sotomayor, the woman Barack Obama just chose to replace Souter on the court. The same President Bush picked her to be a federal district judge in 1991, just a year after he elevated Souter, so she will come to her confirmation hearings not just as the child of Puerto Rican parents who went from public housing to Princeton, but also as a judge with a nearly 17-year paper trail of decisions...
Blagojevich, Patti •acceptance by of NBC offer to appear on Costa Rican jungle-based reality show that husband of was unable to appear on due to being under indictment...