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Sonia Sotomayor, who is 70, is serving a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. ... Biden, a Democrat, is still president and the Senate has a Democratic majority that could confirm a liberal ...
• Justice Sonia Sotomayor votes in New York but has not enrolled in a party. • Justice Neil M. Gorsuch was a registered Republican in the decade before he moved to the D.C. area to join the...
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has made clear she has no plans to step down, according to people close to her, despite calls from some on the left that President Joe Biden should be allowed ...
Washington — President-elect Donald Trump's victory Tuesday has stirred up whispers about whether Justice Sonia Sotomayor should step down from the Supreme Court to allow President Biden to ...
Sonia Maria Sotomayor (/ ˈ s oʊ n j ə ˌ s oʊ t oʊ m aɪ ˈ j ɔːr / ⓘ, Spanish: [ˈsonja sotomaˈʝoɾ]; [1] born June 25, 1954) [2] is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.She was nominated by President Barack Obama on May 26, 2009, and has served since August 8, 2009. She is the third woman, first woman of color ...
WASHINGTON—Despite calls from some liberal activists for Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step down while Democrats can fill her seat before political power changes hands in January, she has no plans ...
Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, 68, told NBC he was “not joining any calls” for Sotomayor to retire. But he warned that if the high court was split 7-2, “you go from a captured court...
Sotomayor was appointed by a Democratic president and confirmed by a Democratic-controlled Senate. Judicial watchdog group Fix The Court found that Sotomayor votes in New York, but isn’t ...
Amid expectations that President Obama would nominate a judge with a "common touch" and empathy, Sotomayor was quickly on the short list. He nominated Sotomayor on May 26, 2009 and, in what Democrats called an "easy one," the Senate confirmed her on August 6, 2009 on a 68-31 vote divided mostly along party lines.
A former federal and appellate judge, Sonia Sotomayor became an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2009. She is the first Latina justice in history.