Sonia Sotomayor - who rose from the broken-glass streets of a city housing project to become the Supreme Court’s first Latina Judge - says she’s just a “kid from the Bronx.” Sotomayor’s father died when she was 9. Her mother, Celina supported Sotomayor and her brother, now a doctor, by working at methadone clinics.
“With this historic vote, the Senate has affirmed that Judge Sotomayor has the intellect, the temperament, the history, the integrity and the independence of mind to ably serve on our nation’s highest court,” Obama said.
The President suggested the Senate affirmed the American Dream in approving Sotomayor - “moving us yet another step closer to a more perfect union.”
There were 110 justices before a Hispanic was finally chosen - 221 years after the Constitution was ratified.
