Chapter . Obama Picks Sotomayor
When Justice David Souter retired, President Obama nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayer of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Her appointment was controversial not only because of her past decisions but because of her demographics. Puerto Rican Sotomayor was raised by a single mother and worked for several Latino rights programs at universities and for the city of New York. Her famous decisions in cases involving The Wall Street Journal, the MLB, and the NFL drew attention. The biggest controversy surrounded a statement, that she repeated in a number of speeches: “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white ...
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