33 Facts About Sonia Sotomayor

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Sonia Sotomayor was nominated by President Barack Obama on May 26,2009, and has served since August 8,2009.

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Sonia Sotomayor worked as an assistant district attorney in New York for four and a half years before entering private practice in 1984.

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Sonia Sotomayor's nomination was slowed by the Republican majority in the United States Senate, but she was eventually confirmed in 1998.

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Sonia Sotomayor entered Yale Law School in the fall of 1976.

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Sonia Sotomayor's action triggered a campus-wide debate, and news of the firm's subsequent December 1978 apology made The Washington Post.

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In 1979, Sonia Sotomayor was awarded a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School.

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Sonia Sotomayor left in 1992 when she became a judge.

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Sonia Sotomayor was appointed by Mayor Ed Koch in 1988 as one of the founding members of the New York City Campaign Finance Board, where she served for four years.

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Sonia Sotomayor had wanted to become a judge since she was in elementary school, and in 1991 she was recommended for a spot by Democratic New York senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

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D'Amato objected strongly; some weeks later, the block was dropped, and Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed by unanimous consent of the full United States Senate on August 11,1992, and received her commission the next day.

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Sonia Sotomayor's ruling ended the 1994 baseball strike after 232 days, the day before the new season was scheduled to begin.

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On June 25,1997, Sotomayor was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which was vacated by J Daniel Mahoney.

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In 2005, Sotomayor wrote the opinion for United States v Quattrone.

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In 2004, Sotomayor was part of the judge panel that ruled in Swedenburg v Kelly that New York's law prohibiting out-of-state wineries from shipping directly to consumers in New York was constitutional even though in-state wineries were allowed to.

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In Brody v Village of Port Chester, a takings case, Sotomayor first ruled in 2003 for a unanimous panel that a property owner in Port Chester, New York was permitted to challenge the state's Eminent Domain Procedure Law.

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In 2005, Sonia Sotomayor ruled with a panel majority that the property owner's due process rights had been violated by lack of adequate notice to him of his right to challenge a village order that his land should be used for a redevelopment project.

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Backers of Sonia Sotomayor offered a variety of explanations in defense of the remark, and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs stated that Sonia Sotomayor's word choice in 2001 had been "poor".

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Some fervor with which conservatives and Republicans viewed the Sonia Sotomayor nomination was due to their grievances over the history of federal judicial nomination battles going back to the 1987 Robert Bork Supreme Court nomination.

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Sonia Sotomayor cast her first vote as an associate Supreme Court justice on August 17,2009, in a stay of execution case.

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On January 20 and 21,2013, Sonia Sotomayor administered the oath to Vice President Joe Biden for the inauguration of his second term.

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On January 20,2021, Sonia Sotomayor administered the oath of office to Kamala Harris for her inauguration as vice president, the first woman to ever hold the office.

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Sonia Sotomayor was an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law from 1998 to 2007.

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Sonia Sotomayor became a member of the Board of Trustees of Princeton University in 2006, concluding her term in 2011.

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In 2008, Sonia Sotomayor became a member of the Belizean Grove, an invitation-only women's group modeled after the men's Bohemian Grove.

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On June 19,2009, Sonia Sotomayor resigned from the Belizean Grove after Republican politicians voiced concerns over the group's membership policy.

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Sonia Sotomayor gave over 180 speeches between 1993 and 2009, about half of which either focused on issues of ethnicity or gender or were delivered to minority or women's groups.

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In July 2010, Sotomayor signed a contract with Alfred A Knopf to publish a memoir about the early part of her life.

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Sonia Sotomayor received an advance of nearly $1.2 million for the work, which was published in January 2013 and titled My Beloved World.

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In 2020, Justice Sonia Sotomayor was reportedly targeted by the same gunman, an angry lawyer, who entered US District Court Judge Esther Salas's home, shooting her husband and killing her son.

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In January 2021, Sonia Sotomayor swore in Kamala Harris as the Vice President of the United States.

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Sonia Sotomayor was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2002.

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In 2013, Sonia Sotomayor won the Woodrow Wilson Award at her alma mater Princeton University.

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In June 2010, the Bronxdale Houses development, where Sonia Sotomayor grew up, was renamed after her.