Obama Nominee Sonia Sotomayor Poised to Become First Hispanic Supreme Court Justice

Democracy Now by Juan Gonzales, Amy Goodman, Cesar Perales, Juan Manuel Garcia-Passalacqua, Tom Goldstein, Marjorie Cohn | May. 27, 2009 (News Analysis)

President Obama has nominated federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, putting her in line to become the country’s first Hispanic justice. The fifty-four-year-old Sotomayor is the daughter of Puerto Rican parents who raised her in a public housing project in the Bronx. We host a roundtable with Marjorie Cohn of the National Lawyers Guild; attorney and SCOTUS Blog founder Tom Goldstein; Cesar Perales, general counsel of Latino ... Full Story »

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 by Vincent Caminiti - May. 28, 2009

Amy Goodman - perhaps one of the finest interviewers in journalism - at last provided a dialog that was inspired by intellectual curiosity and not the general cafeteria style food fight that the commercial media promotes in order to sell their wares. This was a delightful and informative discussion.

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