
We already told that President Obama was nominating Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court and that her being the first Latina to ever do so was unprecedented. But her upbringing is to be heralded as well.
President Obama just formally announced her nomination this morning:
President Obama on Tuesday nominated federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Another child of the Bronx could be destined to make history. With that comes another opportunity for the national media to look at the Bronx in the same old way, as a place of merely two parts: the South Bronx and Yankee Stadium. Federal appeals court Judge Sonia Sotomayor, from the Bronxdale Houses, is on President Obama’s short list of nominees to replace Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court.
Much is being made of her roots, her Horatio Alger tale from a kid of the projects to possibly the highest court in the land. It’s great whenever the Bronx gets national attention as a breeding ground for the best and the brightest in this nation. Continue »