Sonia Maria Sotomayor is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the  United States, serving since August 2009. She has the distinction of being its first  justice of Hispanic heritage, the first Latina, its third female justice, and its twelfth  Roman Catholic justice. Sotomayor was born in The ...
Nov 11, 2014 ... Judge Sotomayor had previously ruled that weighing the costs of the changes  against the value of the organisms in dollars was not permitted by the law.  Instead, the EPA could consider only what cost "may reasonably be borne" by the  power plants. When her ruling was overturned by the Supreme Court, ...
May 26, 2009 ... Judge Sonia Sotomayor is President Obama's pick to replace Justice David  Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court. • Age 54 (Born ... Wrote the 2008 opinion  supporting the City of New Haven's decision to throw out the results of a  firefighter promotion exam because almost no minorities qualified for promotions.
Pat Roberts of Kansas was the first Senator to officially come out against the  nomination: "With all due respect to the nominee and nothing personal, I do not  plan to vote for her. I did not feel she was appropriate on the appeals court. Since  that time, she has made statements on the role of the appeals court I think is  improper ...
Dec 15, 2016 ... Sonia Sotomayor has used her time at the court to become what she has been  dubbed by her admirers: the people's justice. She throws out first pitches at ball  games and presides over the ball drop in New York, and she wrote the most  revealing and honest judicial memoir I have ever read. Her trick for ...
Sotomayor has had her rulings thrown out by the court a troubling four times.