Sonia Sotomayor was the first Latina Supreme Court Justice in U.S. history. She was nominated by president Barack Obama on May 26, 2009. Sotomayor is a women who got nominated by Barack Obama. She graduated from Yale Law School and passed the bar in 1980. She became a U.S. District Court Judge in 1992 and was elevated to the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals in 1998.
Assignment 5: Anita Hill VS Clarence Thomas Introduction In 1991, Thurgood Marshall, the first African American to serve on the nation’s highest court retired. However, before Thurgood Marshall could retire, someone would have to take his place. In 1991, President George H. W. Bush nominated Clarence Thomas as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court where he would eventually be sworn in on October 23, 1991 (EEOC); But before Clarence Thomas was sworn into the U.S. Supreme Court, a scandal involving a college law professor arose.
On April 22, 2021, it was decided that judges now have the power to sentence youth to life imprisonment without parole. Toward the case of Brett Jones guilty of killing his grandfather at the age of 15, Jones V. Mississippi was overthrown. Succeeding the majority of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh in a 6-3 ruling, Kavanaugh claimed that judges should be able to sentence youth to life imprisonment without parole as it should be up to the judges’ discretion. Opposing this Justice Sonia Sotomayor believes that children should have the right to parole and strongly believes judges should still have to prove teens cannot be rehabilitated to sentence one to life in prison. Corresponding to Sotomayor, youth should have the right to parole and judges should
He was the son of Sarah Walley and John Phillips, who was a judge and an influential political figure in Boston during his time. Seeking for an occupation that was almost as admirable as his father’s, Phillips turned to law school. Phillips’ academic work was stellar,
Sonia Sotomayor Sonia Sotomayor was the first Hispanic nominee for the Justice Court. I think she is a great person and I’d like to be like her one day. Sonia Sotomayor was born on June 25th, 1954 in The Bronx, New York. Her father died when she was 9, he was also an alcoholic.
Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina nominated for the Supreme Court, gave a speech to the Senate Judiciary Committee about her work experience as a judge and her outlook on education. Sotomayor speaks about her experinces as a judge, along with the hard work she put into her education that earned her scholarships into two Ivy League schools. Sotomayor’s purpose is to seek the support from the Senate Judiciary Committee by giving an image to show she is eligible to be in the Supreme Court. Sotomayor supports her purpose with her background story about her education and her occupations as a judge. Sotomayor uses rhetorical appeals and a grateful tone to persuade the committee she is an applicable candidate to be in the Supreme Court.
During her time at Wellesley College, she experienced prejudice. Even her own teachers advised her not to go for law, but she didn’t listen. At Yale, Bolin experienced more racism than in her childhood community. She said that “I certainly had a taste of what Judge Bolin must have experienced every day.” Bolin eventually got into Law by passing the New York Bar
Justice Sonia Sotomayor was born on June 25th 1954 in the South Bronx area of New York to parents Juan and Celina Baez Sotomayor. Her parents who were of Puerto Rican descent moved their family to New York for a better opportunity for their children. Her parents worked hard to make a living her mother was a nurse a methadone clinic and her father worked with his hands and the family lived modestly within their means. Justice Sotomayor was diagnosed with type one diabetes at the age of seven and began taking insulin shot’s, shortly after her father died in 1963 when she was nine, leaving her mother as a single parent, during her upbringing her mother Celina placed a huge emphasis on the importance of education, pushing her children to become
I pretended nothing had changed. I pretended today was just like yesterday, just like the day before, just like tomorrow was supposed to be. But I couldn't focus, I couldn’t think straight, I couldn’t communicate. My thoughts were racing, my heart was beating, my brain was crashing, and in the back of my mind all I could think about was him… Clarence Thomas, the man who made my life an inescapable hell. I thought about the times he lured me into his office, the way he described his sexual pleasures, his refusal in allowing me to leave before he wanted me to.
Every day we are challenged and faced with many struggles that we have to overcome in order to go about our every-day lives. In Sonia Sotomayor’s book she shows us how most of her childhood she was faced with new struggles every day, and how overcoming them helped her to be the person she is today. Being brought up in a poor society, Sonia had to make sure she kept on track, and had to make sure that she didn’t get caught up in the outside drama. Poverty has a huge impact on the way a person acts and builds a person’s character. How you face poverty and how you overcome it will let you do what you have to do to become a better and more successful person.
Marbury versus Madison was one of the most controversial court cases in the Supreme Court history. The overall decision of the court case was a landmark decision that would carry on into setting up boundaries between the executive and judicial branches of government. The case was brought to trial on February 11, 1803 and the final decision was made February 24, 1803. The case included William Marbury and James Madison. Marbury was appointed by President John Adams to be the Justice of the Peace.
Justice Thurgood Marshall Response Justice Thurgood Marshall said in his “Reflections on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution”, “I do not believe the meaning of the Constitution was forever ‘fixed’ at the Philadelphia Convention. Nor do I find the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice exhibited by the framers particularly profound. To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war, and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, that we hold as fundamental as today” (Marshall). In this passage of his essay, Judge Marshall is critical of the government that is
The most used and incorporated stereotype in televisions shows, the Sapphire is said to be the modern day Angry Black Woman; she is portrayed as aggressive, ill-tempered, illogical, overbearing, and hostile (Ashley 27). On Season 1 of The Apprentice, a contestant by the name of Omarosa Manigault was one of the most hated women on the show due to her attitude that labeled her the Angry Black Woman. When advertising for the show she was described as a woman who had a Ph.D., "but she [had] her real education from the streets . . . She's fierce! She's feisty!"
The Supreme Court has been used for basically the entirety of America’s history. Though many think of recent ones or cases in the past century when thinking about the Supreme Court, the 1800s had many Supreme Court cases that were pivotal to America. Marbury v. Madison was a case in the Supreme Court decided in 1803. When John Adams was in his final days of presidency, he nominated people to serve as justices of peace for D.C., but his secretary did not deliver all of the commissions by the time Thomas Jefferson became president, and William Marbury was one whose commission was not delivered. When Jefferson became president, he ended up disallowing his secretary James Madison from delivering the commissions, but Marbury along with other
“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right. ”(Martin Luther King, Jr.) Most people were racist but now since the civil rights have been established most have stopped being racist and moved on. Three supreme court case decisions influenced the civil rights movements by letting more and more poeple know what the Supreme Court was doing to African Americans,and of the unfair him crow laws:(Dred Scott v. Sanford,Plessy v. Ferguson,Brown v. Board of Education). Dred Scott v. Sanford Is a case that most people felt that Dred Scott had an unfair charge against him.
