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5 days ago · Sonia Sotomayor (born June 25, 1954, Bronx, New York, U.S.) associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 2009. She was the first Hispanic and the third woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
Sonia Sotomayor is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was nominated by President Barack Obama (D) to fill the seat left vacant by David Souter on June 1, 2009. She was confirmed by the Senate on August 6 and sworn in on August 8, 2009, becoming the first Hispanic justice to sit on the Court.
Mar 6, 2023 · Sonia Sotomayor is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, upon which she has served since 2009. Appointed by then-President Barack Obama following the retirement of ...
Aug 22, 2022 · Politics. Feature. August 22, 2022. How Sonia Sotomayor Became the Conscience of the Supreme Court. The former prosecutor was never a liberal firebrand. But now it is she, more than any other...
Aug 8, 2019 · Richard Wolf. USA TODAY. 0:00. 1:44. WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court had heard about 15 seconds of debate over adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census when Associate Justice Sonia...
May 26, 2009 · Blog Post. Sonia Sotomayor, the 'People's Justice' May 26, 2016 | by Nicandro Iannacci. More in Constitution Daily Blog. (credit: Wikimedia Commons) On May 26, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated then-Judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace Justice David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Sotomayor was confirmed by the Senate by a 68-31 vote on August 6. She took the constitutional oath of office and the judicial oath of office at a single ceremony two days later. The first case for which Sotomayor heard oral arguments was the landmark First Amendment and campaign finance case Citizens United v. FEC.
