10 Things You Didn't Know About Sonia Sotomayor

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The problem with your'e way of thinking. Is first of all we live in a "REPUBLIC" not a democracy, And second judges should make their desition based on the rule of law.Not their personal feelings.

ron 2112 of CA 3:29PM July 14, 2009

She looks weak and discombobulated. Body language was telling on Monday. But she is smart enough to ride out this process and be confirmed. <><

Kyle Fallon of TX 1:45PM July 14, 2009

"I'm white, but I don't regard becoming a minority a cataclysmic disaster. I think it might well do me, and our our country, a lot of good."
If being in the minority does one good, why are minorities now complaining about it?

Kerry of TX 6:15PM July 13, 2009

Judges make decisions like any other human being based on their individual life experience. How narrow or broad that experience is will determine their views, values and choices. American society is inexorably moving towards a more inclusive, more tolerant, more empathetic society primarily because of our more diverse population. The information age has expanded the connections people have with each other. The aristrocratic judges who lived in a bubble is becoming a thing of the past. Sotomayor will be a terrific addition to the Supreme Court. We need more diverse voices to keep our democracy alive and well.

Robin Soper of CO 12:54PM June 30, 2009

Judges make decisions like any other human being based on their individual life experience. How narrow or broad that experience is will determine their views, values and choices. American society is inexorably moving towards a more inclusive, more tolerant, more empathetic society primarily because of our more diverse population. The information age has expanded the connections people have with each other. The aristrocratic judges who lived in a bubble is becoming a thing of the past. Sotomayor will be a terrific addition to the Supreme Court. We need more diverse voices to keep our democracy alive and well.

Robin Soper of CO 12:53PM June 30, 2009

If predictions prove corect, whites in the U.S. will become a minority within two decades. It will be interesting to see what stance will be taken by those who presently decry "special treatment for minorities."
The end of the white-dominated era will no doubt be interesting on many levels: religion,cuisine,music,architecture,government, the military, etc.
I'm white, but I don't regard becoming a minority a cataclysmic disaster. I think it might well do me, and our our country, a lot of good.

Linda of NC 1:18PM June 19, 2009

I would be labeled conservative-republican. This does not mean that I am stupid or biased . I can identify with Judge Sotomajor. I was born in Brooklyn as number four in a family of twelve children. We were poor and grew up in the great depression. I wore second hand clothes and patched holes in my shoes by inserting linoleum strips but we were never hungry. I can identify with the judge. The only thing that I don't like is that Yale background.
The Republicans should give her a pass. Obama won and he gets the judges. She is the best of the group that was screened.
Good Luck Judge!

Francis J. Donovan of NY 11:25AM June 13, 2009

Sotomayor is Puerto Rican. She does not represent the vast majority of American Latinos.(Mexican-Americans)Not once has a U.S. Supreme Court Justice been a Mexican-American. Not only is this politically incorrect it most likely is and has been Un-Constitutional.

Gabriel M. Robles of KS 8:45AM June 13, 2009

I don't, CAN'T feel confortable with this candidate. She's overly ethnocentric in an already overly liberal World. And to clarify, a liberal is anyone who supports the malicious reduction of polical power & disinfrancisment of ethinic Whites. If we must remember the haucaust then remember the publically accepted intolerances that forshadowed it. They are quite similar to the pleadings & prediction that this nominee NOT be a white male and must be a female minority(of course all females are already legally minorities LOL). This polically correct diversity hogwash is getting rather boring.

hermon munster of WA 3:39AM June 13, 2009

Silly article not worthy of a major "news" magazine! All of these items are common knowledge! Most are mentioned in almost every news article covering the nomination. Silly! Was of time. Was hoping for something interesting. Sad that someone so biased has been nominated and someone who is in such lock step agreement with the far left vision to change America from free to socialist in the name of minority "freedoms" (privleges without responsibilities) and in the name of making results of one's efforts equal rather than equal opportunity. Silly article and silly nomination for such a great country.

housewife of TN 1:45AM June 13, 2009