Conversation on the Constitution: Sonia Sotomayor: Courts make policy?

share
0

Recent videos from neeoavatara1

1 We Have Met the Enemy…
20 hours ago
55 videos see all

what people are saying

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/26/supreme.court/index.htmlBarack Obama announced the Justice Sonia Sotomayor would be named his choice to succeed Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court.Sotomayor would be the third female justice in American history, following Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsberg.  More importantly, she will be the first Hispanic to sit on the country’s highest court.She grew up [...]
May
2009

add a comment

2000 characters left.
First collected by neeoavatara1
May 26, 2009
from youtube.com
join Your favorite videos on the web, in one place. Start your collection now.

related videos

tags

collected by 2 people

details

72 views

original description

“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion [as a judge] than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” — Judge Sonia Sotomayor, in her Judge Mario G. Olmos Law and Cultural Diversity Lecture at the University of California [...]
Flag this Video as inappropriate or broken