Obama picks Sotomayor for Supreme Court

DemocracyNow
May 28, 2009
President Obama has nominated federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, putting her in line to become the countrys first Hispanic justice. The fifty-four-year-old Sotomayor is the daughter of Puerto Rican parents who raised her in a public housing project in the Bronx. We host a roundtable with Marjorie Cohn of the National Lawyers Guild; attorney and SCOTUS Blog founder Tom Goldstein; Cesar Perales, general counsel of Latino Justice; and Juan Manuel Garcia-Passalacqua, an independent political analyst who knows Sotomayor personally.