Justice Sonia Sotomayor is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was nominated by President Barack Obama on May 26, 2009.
In 1997, President Clinton nominated her to the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. By the time she was finally approved in 1998, her candidacy had been stalled by the Republican majority in the US Senate.
Sotomayor presided over more than 3,000 appeals and wrote more than 380 opinions while serving on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Previously, Sotomayor served as a faculty member at the New York University Law School and Columbia Law School.
Following the retirement of Justice David Souter, President Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court in May 2009.
In August 2009, the Senate voted 68–31 to approve her candidacy. Sotomayor has supported the informal liberal bloc of justices whenever they have divided along ideological lines throughout her time on the Court.
Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor has long been known for her strong dissents on racial and ethnic justice concerns, such as Schuette v. BAMN, the Utah Supreme Court case Strieff v. Utah, and Trump vs. Hawaii, during her time on the court’s bench.
Is Justice Sonia Sotomayor Related To Marianna Sotomayor?
Sonia Sotomayor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, is unrelated to Marianna Sotomayor in any way. You can tell that they don’t have a lot in common and aren’t really fond of one another.
As an internist, Mariana Sotomayor works at New York University. Her father Eduardo is an associate professor of medicine at Columbia University.
