Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Maria Sotomayor [ ˌ soʊnjə soʊtɵ.maɪɔr ] ( born June 25, 1954 in New York City ) is an American lawyer and since 2009 a judge of the Supreme Court of the United States. On 26 May 2009 she was nominated by U.S. President Barack Obama for this office. On 6 August, the Senate confirmed her nomination. Two days later, she was sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts.
Life and work
Sonia Sotomayor, whose parents are from Puerto Rico, grew up in the Bronx. At the age of eight years she was diagnosed with diabetes. When she was nine, her father died. Her subsequent study was made possible by their measures of affirmative action. She studied at Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1976 and then studied until 1979 Law at the Yale Law School. She then worked as a prosecutor in New York County, which includes the area of Manhattan, operating under the local longtime Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau, until she joined a New York law firm in 1984.
1991 Sotomayor was nominated by U.S. President George HW Bush for a judgeship on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and confirmed in 1992 by the U.S. Senate. End of May 1995 ended any decision taken by Sotomayor available a labor dispute in Major League Baseball, where players had previously struck 232 days against salary caps. 1997 nominated U.S. President Bill Clinton, the Federal Judge Sotomayor one of the seats on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. After confirmation by the Senate, they came to this office in 1998. Judge Sotomayor addition to her work since 1998, teaches law as an adjunct professor at New York University.
After David Souter announced in May 2009, resign from office as a judge on the U.S. Supreme Court, Sotomayor was very soon touted as a favorite for the nomination by President Obama as Souters successor. She is the first person from the population of Hispanics, and it is the third woman to a judge of the Supreme Court post. The Senate confirmed her nomination by 68 to 31 votes, the parties to the voting members of the democratic faction voted in for them. Of the Republicans came nine yes- and all 31 negative votes. Sotomayor is considered to be representative of the political center. Decidedly left wing positions they previously took an almost exclusively on the issue of affirmative action - the measures by which members of minorities in education and employment should be promoted.
Sonia Sotomayor was honored by several U.S. universities with an honorary doctorate. She is divorced and has no children.
Early 2013 she published an autobiography ( entitled " My beloved world ' ).
Criticism
Sotomayor is accused by Republican politician Newt Gingrich racism; she had, after reading the critics, in a speech in 2001, the experience of a "wise Latina" ( "wise latina " ) touted as superior to that of a white male. Your nomination for the Supreme Court is seen by Fred Barnes, a journalist for Fox News Channel and the editor of The Weekly Standard, as implementation of the affirmative action concept; Sotomayor had been brought forward as exponent of two marginalized groups ( women, Latina ) better qualified competitors.
Publications
- 2013: My beloved world. Knopf, New York City, USA, ISBN 978-0-307-59488-4. 2013: in Spanish: My mundo Adorado. Vintage Español, New York City, USA, ISBN 978-0-345-80409-9.
- 2014: in German: My beloved world. Verlag CH Beck, Munich, ISBN 978-3-406-65947-8 D.