Obamapolooza!!!

President Obama has nominated federal court Judge, Sonia Sotomayor, as the first Latina to serve on the Supreme Court.

"My heart today is bursting with gratitude for all you have done for me today," she said, adding that while she stands "on the shoulders of countless people," it was her mother, Selena Sotomayor, who is her most abiding inspiration. She said growing up in modest and challenging circumstance, with a father who died when she was 9 and a mother who often had to work two jobs to support the family, helped her learn how to "respect and respond to the concerns and arguments of all litigants who appear before me, as well as my colleagues on the bench."

She went from the projects in the Bronx to graduating summa cum laude from Princeton, later going to Yale Law School. Permalink

Si, se puede indeed. Congrats prima!

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