by Wilhelmina S. Orozco US President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden have written the American people through Organizing for America, a socio-political movement to support their nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. A copy of their letters have been sent to my email address too and it is elating to find that the two highest positions in the country that once colonized our own and now considered one of the most if not the most powerful nation should be standing up for a Latina mayor and a woman at that. Judging by her credentials as stated by VP Biden, she seems to have a great edge over all other nominees. How we wish that the women lawyers of our country could approximate if not equal her qualifications and rise up to the highest posts, proud to be of service to the Filipino people and willing to fight corruption and extinguish it forever in our society. Here is the description of Judge Sotomayor by VP Biden:
Born to a Puerto Rican family, Sotomayor grew up in a public housing project in the South Bronx. She was an avid reader from an early age, and was first inspired to pursue a legal career by the Nancy Drew mystery novels. Driven by her mother's belief in the power of education and her own relentless work ethic, she excelled in school. She won a scholarship to Princeton University, graduated summa cum laude, and then went on to attend Yale Law School where she served as an editor of the prestigious Yale Law Journal.
Like President Obama, Sotomayor passed up many more lucrative opportunities after law school to put her degree to work for the public good. She served as an Assistant District Attorney in New York, tackling some of the hardest cases facing the city, including robberies, assaults, murders, police brutality, and child pornography. Her growing reputation for fearlessness and legal brilliance prompted her first nomination to the federal bench, and she's only continued to soar.
If confirmed, she would start with more federal judicial experience than any Justice in a century, more overall judicial experience than any Justice in 70 years, and replace David Souter as the only Justice with firsthand experience as a trial judge. She has participated in over 3,000 panel decisions and authored roughly 400 opinions, expertly handling difficult issues of constitutional law, complicated procedural matters, and lawsuits involving complex business organizations.
In her years on the bench, Judge Sotomayor has earned acclaim from legal scholars and experts from both sides of the aisle for her intellectual toughness, her probing oral questioning, and her ability to issue decisions that hold both factual details and legal doctrines in equal measure. And she's never failed to apply a steady, common-sense analysis of how the law touches our daily lives.
Her story is incredible. Her qualifications are undeniable. And her judgment will serve us all well on the highest court in the land.
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