Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court Confirmation Celebrated

Bronx native and federal judge Sonia Sotomayor found out she was confirmed to serve on the Supreme Court by watching it in the 8th floor of a Manhattan federal courthouse conference room. The Daily News reports that the cheers started when it was official and she received a phone call, "'Mommy, I have people here,' Sotomayor told her - to laughs in the room. They spoke briefly in Spanish before hanging up, and the misty-eyed Suprema nueva told her friends, 'My mother is so happy she's crying.'" And while celebrating at a party with her close friends, she wanted to know the Yankees' score and said that when she gets a break, "I'm going to go to a Yankee game." And the NY Times examined the pride the Puerto Rican community has taken with Sotomayor's rise, "In New York, many have welcomed the judge’s visibility during a summer when the most celebrated — and reviled — local politicians were two Puerto Rican state senators who brought the state government to a standstill by mounting an abortive coup against their fellow Democrats."

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By Jen Chung in News on August 7, 2009 4:08 PM

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Mr Mel

If you mean Justice David Souter, they wont be playing footsies or anything else. He's the one she's replacing.

Time to check your oil.

ANGRYGOD11

Another rom-com plot shot down by the critics.

I was thinking Raquel Welch could play Sotomayor in the film.

SP

anti-democracy that is

SP

The best part about all this is that it is forcing conservatives to reveal their true colors and exposing them as the fearful, ingnorant, bigoted, sexist lying cowardly anti-docracy racists they really are. Keep it up!

ides_of_march

Viva Affirmative Action!

I haven't heard anything about her outstanding writings on constitutional law assuming there are any, but I have heard she doesn't care for white fireman or white men in general. Nowadays, I guess that's considered the highest qualification.

Pity there wasn't as much celebration when the first black SC Justice was picked. Oh wait, he wasn't a flaming liberal. Nevermind.

Politburo

There was plenty of celebration when Thurgood Marshall was picked. Perhaps you forgot about him?

silver

http://tinypic.com/r/hv6hj6/3

dr zippy

The may be the most awesomely stupid comment you've ever left Ides. And you've left plenty! Don't you and Angrygod have a town hall meeting to disrupt with your fascinating facts!

ANGRYGOD11

Maybe the person who might celebrate the most is hetro and single Supreme Court Justice David Sutter. It's not against the US Constitution to play footies under the bench.