Tag: Sonia Sotomayor
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When you come from a background like mine, where you’re entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.
Sonia Sotomayor
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I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation’s finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.
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I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.
Sonia Sotomayor
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Oh my God, I don’t think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy.
Sonia Sotomayor
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Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.
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It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society.
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All judges have cases that touch our passions deeply, but we all struggle constantly with remaining impartial.
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Being a justice. If you love law the way I do… you’re given the job of a lifetime… you’re permitted to address the most important legal questions of the country, and sometimes the world. And in doing so, you make a difference in people’s lives.
Sonia Sotomayor
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My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.
Sonia Sotomayor
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I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its purpose: to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run.
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