Sonia Sotomayor

 19 Maret 2010

Tahu Sonia Sotomayor? Seorang Supreme Court Judge, Hari ini saya ngoprek-oprek file-file lama saya tentang artikel-artikel yang menarik. Terus saya menemukan artikel tentang Sonia yang saya kutip dari :http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/politics&id=6831739 , this article teaches me something I learn from her, ini beberapa fakta tentang dia: 

- Sonia Sotomayor's ascent to a U.S. Supreme Court nomination began in a Bronx housing project, fed by Nancy Drew, inspired by Perry Mason and encouraged by her hardworking mother.

- Her mother worked two jobs after coming to New York from Puerto Rico, including as a nurse at a methadone clinic after her husband died when Sotomayor was 9. She saved up and bought Sotomayor the only encyclopedia set in the neighborhood.
- She got her first taste of the law as she buried herself in Nancy Drew books, but it was an episode of Perry Mason that provided the defining moment in Sotomayor's childhood. Watching the camera settle on the judge at the end of an episode, she immediately realized "he was the most important player in that room," Sotomayor said in a 1998 interview with The Associated Pre

-By time she was 8 years old, Sotomayor had begun insulin injections for juvenile diabetes. After her father died, her mother sometimes worked two jobs, but she always kept a pot of rice and beans on the stove.

-The Manhattan-born Sotomayor's humble upbringing has shaped her personality - vibrant and colorful, and so different from the Bronx projects where she grew up in a home with a drab yellow kitchen.

-She is a food-loving baseball buff as likely to eat a hot dog at a street corner stand as to settle in for a fancy meal at a swanky restaurant.

-Sotomayor, who has a brother who became a doctor, presided over a civil trial in 1996 in which the family of a lawyer who died from AIDS sued the makers of the movie "Philadelphia," contending that Hollywood stole their story. The case was settled, but not before the movie with its dramatic courtroom showdowns was played for the jury in its entirety, prompting Sotomayor to caution: "I don't expect melodrama here. I don't want anybody aspiring to what they see on the screen."

-Sotomayor graduated summa cum laude from Princeton, then became an editor of the Yale Law Journal at Yale Law School. She joined the Manhattan district attorney's office and the board of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund.

-"She is a brilliant person whose intellect is only overshadowed by her humility, which stems from her being an ordinary person. She's an ordinary American," said Carlos Ortiz, the chairman of the Supreme Court Committee in the Hispanic National Bar Association.

"She can transcend all ages," he said. "She is the genuine article. As a result, it reaches everyone. People just get her. For someone who's this smart, intellectual-disciplined and hard working, she still gets it."

Jon O. Newman, a senior judge on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and a former chief judge, said the appointment was the culmination of "the American dream of sheer talent triumphing and being rewarded."

He added: "She's overcome adversity growing up and made herself an enormous success based on talent and strength of character. And that's the American dream."

Nb: ngga perlu dijabarin kan saya belajar apa dari Sonia? --wh

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