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Sotomayor sworn in as new justice the new york times. Drawing on in depth interviews with sonia sotomayor s former colleagues, family, friends, and teachers, new york times bestselling biographer antonia felix explores sotomayor s childhood, the values her parents instilled in her, and the events that propelled her to the highest court in the land. Justice sotomayors dissents this term came mostly in criminal cases, and were informed as much by events in ferguson, mo. Before joining the appeals court, she served as a u. At least half of my beloved world is a love letter to sotomayors south bronx childhood, toggling from past to present tense, full of cousins and poems and food, all of it held together by. In dissents, sonia sotomayor takes on the criminal justice. Justice sotomayor encourages kids to just ask in new book. Aspirational firstperson text will be accompanied by a mixture of illustrations and photographs. Liberal supreme court justice sonia sotomayors latest melodramatic dissent, on the travel ban, warmed the angry hearts of liberals frustrated by the latest 54 ruling against them, and provided another clipping for the new york times extensive sotomayor fanclub file. But readers can get to know justice sonia sotomayor, who in 2009 became the first hispanic to sit on the united states highest judicial branch, in her memoir, my beloved world knopf.
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