Sonia Sotomayor | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

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Sonia Sotomayor


00:02:22 1 Early life
00:05:51 2 College and law school
00:12:00 3 Early legal career
00:18:40 4 Federal district judge
00:18:49 4.1 Nomination and confirmation
00:21:14 4.2 Judgeship
00:22:27 4.3 Notable rulings
00:24:45 5 Court of Appeals judge
00:24:55 5.1 Nomination and confirmation
00:28:32 5.2 Judgeship
00:33:41 5.3 Notable rulings
00:33:49 5.3.1 Abortion
00:34:33 5.3.2 First Amendment rights
00:37:04 5.3.3 Second Amendment rights
00:38:43 5.3.4 Fourth Amendment rights
00:39:48 5.3.5 Alcohol in commerce
00:40:28 5.3.6 Employment discrimination
00:42:05 5.3.7 Business
00:43:16 5.3.8 Civil rights
00:44:58 5.3.9 Property rights
00:46:52 6 Supreme Court justice
00:47:01 6.1 Nomination and confirmation
00:54:12 6.2 Justiceship
01:00:08 6.3 Notable rulings
01:07:06 7 Other activities
01:12:58 8 Awards and honors
01:15:10 9 Publications
01:16:49 10 See also
01:17:35 11 Bibliography



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Sonia Maria Sotomayor (Spanish: [ˈsonja sotomaˈʝoɾ]; born June 25, 1954) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, appointed by President Barack Obama in May 2009 and confirmed in August 2009. She has the distinction of being its first justice of Hispanic descent and the first Latina.Sotomayor was born in The Bronx, New York City, to Puerto Rican-born parents. Her father died when she was nine, and she was subsequently raised by her mother. Sotomayor graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1976 and received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1979, where she was an editor at the Yale Law Journal. She worked as an assistant district attorney in New York for four-and-a-half years before entering private practice in 1984. She played an active role on the boards of directors for the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, the State of New York Mortgage Agency, and the New York City Campaign Finance Board.
Sotomayor was nominated to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by President George H. W. Bush in 1991; confirmation followed in 1992. In 1997, she was nominated by President Bill Clinton to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Her nomination was slowed by the Republican majority in the United States Senate, but she was eventually confirmed in 1998. On the Second Circuit, Sotomayor heard appeals in more than 3,000 cases and wrote about 380 opinions. Sotomayor has taught at the New York University School of Law and Columbia Law School.
In May 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Sotomayor to the Supreme Court following the retirement of Justice David Souter. Her nomination was confirmed by the Senate in August 2009 by a vote of 68–31. While on the court, Sotomayor has supported  the informal liberal bloc of justices when they divide along the commonly perceived ideological lines. During her tenure on the Supreme Court, Sotomayor has been identified with concern for the rights of defendants, calls for reform of the criminal justice system, and making impassioned dissents on issues of race, gender and ethnic identity, including Schuette v. BAMN, Utah v. Strieff, and Trump v. Hawaii.