Nominated by President Barack Obama on May 26, 2009, Sonia Sotomayor became the first Latina Supreme Court Justice in U.S. history.
In June 2016, Sotomayor made headlines when she wrote a scathing dissent for Utah v. Edward Joseph Strieff, Jr., a case involving civil liberties in regards to preventing unlawful search and seizures protected by the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment.
WEBSITES:
https://www.biography.com/people/sonia-sotomayor-453906
https://www.cnn.com/2013/03/08/us/sonia-sotomayor-fast-facts/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/26/sotomayor.bio/index.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/utah-streiff-sotomayor/487922/
https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendments/amendment-iv
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BOOKS and more………
Mi mundo adorado / by Sonia Sotomayor
My beloved world / Sonia Sotomayor
The Supreme Court justices : illustrated biographies, 1789-2012
Sonia Sotomayor : first Hispanic U.S. Supreme Court justice / Lisa Tucker McElroy
Sonia Sotomayor : a judge grows in the Bronx
Sonia Sotomayor: Supreme Court justice and author teaches kids to embrace their differences.
American Libraries, Jan 01, 2019; Vol. 50, No. 1/2, p. 24-25
Turning pages : my life story / Sonia Sotomayor ; illustrated by Lulu Delacre
“We are never going to reach equality in America until we achieve equality in education.”
