Supreme Court Buzz: Sonia Sotomayor

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by Chris Lombardi

Last night, President Obama called all three of the women we last mentioned as potential Supreme Court Justices and told them he had chosen the very first on our list, 55-year-old New York judge Sonia Sotomayor — despite a whisper campaign that had already questioned her intelligence and called her a "fiery Latina" instead of the more respectful "potential first Hispanic Justice." Sotomayor has more combined experience at every level of the judicial system, than any current member of the Court:

• The Associated Press starts with Sotomayor's compelling biography: "Sonia Sotomayor's path to the pinnacle of the legal profession began in the 1960s at a Bronx housing project just a couple blocks from Yankee Stadium, where she and her family dealt with one struggle after another."

Read the rest of this story at Women's Voices For Change.