Blog 22- Women Lawyers

Sonia Sotomayor is a strong Puerto Rican woman who was raised in South Bronx. Sonia Sotomayor childhood was an ordinary childhood that those in poverty experience. She lived in South Bronx public housing projects. Sonia Sotomayor lived in a single parented home after her father passed away. Sonia Sotomayor became who she is today because of her mother. Her mother was a strong believer in education, she believed “education is the key to everything” (A biological sketch of Sonia Sotomayor, video clip). Sonia Sotomayor became very interested in education because she believed if it was the key to everything then she would be able to do everything. Sonia Sotomayor did not believe she was a minority until she went to college. In the video clip she stated “I didn’t think of myself as a minority, didn’t know I had a sense of limitation.” Sonia soon learned that she had a limitation once she started at the university. Since she learned how to speak Spanish before English, Sonia Sotomayor had “complex sentence structure” when writing in English. Sonia Sotomayor became the 1st federal judge of Hispanic decent in 1992. Now, Sonia Sotomayor serves in the Supreme Court.
Gender and race was used towards Sonia Sotomayor to evaluate her qualifications. In a you tube video called, “Conservatives Call Sotomayor A Puerto Rican Terrorist” argued that she supported violent Puerto Rican terrorist. The media linked her to the Puerto Rican terrorist because she is from that race. Sonia Sotomayor also was verbally attack by Sen. Lindsey Graham when evaluating her performance as a judge. Some comments that were made towards her was that she was “difficult and challenging, terror on the bench, angry, overly aggressive, abusive towards lawyers, and temperament.” She was attacked by the same man who suggest John McCain for president, “who is legendary for temperament problems” (video clip, Sen. Graham Gets Personal with Sonia Sotomayor).