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Accessed 08 August The Biography. Accessed 09 August Accessed 10 August Academy of Achievement. MLA — Angelucci, Ashley. Date accessed. Chicago — Angelucci, Ashley. Article originally published September 1, Supreme Court of the United States website. Sotomayor, Sonia. My Beloved World. Alfred A. New York, NY. Turning Pages: My Life Story. Penguin Young Readers Group. Nonetheless, she was easily confirmed by a Democratic majority and nine of the Senate's 40 Republicans.
In addition to becoming the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, Sotomayor was the third woman named to the bench. The following year, Justice Elena Kagan would become the fourth. Since her appointment, Sotomayor has been notable for her forceful dissent in several cases regarding racial discrimination, as well as siding with the majority in a decision that upheld the Affordable Care Act. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
On August 8, , a long-simmering conflict between Russia and Georgia boiled over into a shooting war between the small Caucasian nation and the superpower of which it was once a part. The brief Russo-Georgian War was the most violent episode in a conflict that began more than On August 8, , the Soviet Union officially declares war on Japan, pouring more than 1 million Soviet soldiers into Japanese-occupied Manchuria, northeastern China, to take on the ,strong Japanese army.
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Second Circuit Court of Appeals in In , she was confirmed as the first Latina Supreme Court justice in U. Sotomayor's family functioned on a very modest income — her mother was a nurse at a methadone clinic, and her father was a tool-and-die worker.
Sotomayor's first leanings toward the justice system began after watching an episode of the television show Perry Mason. When a prosecutor on the program said he did not mind losing when a defendant turned out to be innocent, Sotomayor later said to The New York Times that she "made the quantum leap: If that was the prosecutor's job, then the guy who made the decision to dismiss the case was the judge.
That was what I was going to be. When her husband died in , Celina worked hard to raise her children as a single parent. She placed what Sotomayor would later call an "almost fanatical emphasis" on a higher education, pushing the children to become fluent in English and making huge sacrifices to purchase a set of encyclopedias that would give them proper research materials for school.
The young Latina woman felt overwhelmed by her new school; after she received low marks on first mid-term paper, she sought help, taking more English and writing classes.
The groups, she said, provided her "with an anchor I needed to ground myself in that new and different world. All of Sotomayor's hard work paid off when she graduated summa cum laude from Princeton in She was also awarded the Pyne Prize, which is the highest academic award given to Princeton undergraduates.
She received her J. Sotomayor was responsible for prosecuting robbery, assault, murder, police brutality and child pornography cases. She moved from associate to partner at the firm in Sotomayor's pro bono work at these agencies caught the attention of Senators Ted Kennedy and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who were partially responsible for her appointment as U.
President George H.
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