Supreme Court Update

from NYdailynews:

If confirmed by the Senate, Sotomayor, a Bronx native, will be the first Hispanic ever to hold a seat on the nation's highest court and only the second woman on the current bench. She would join Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who also has roots in New York. (She was born and raised in Brooklyn and attended two Empire State schools: Cornell and Columbia).
As a reader who pays attention to this sort of thing points out, both women also have a connection to the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who, along with then-Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, sponsored Ginsburg when she was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1993 by President Clinton.
It was Moynihan who suggested Sotomayor, who is known as a political centrist, to President George HW Bush in 1992 for the position of US district court judge for the Southern District. She was still in her 30s when she landed the job - the youngest person ever to do so.
She was also the first American of Puerto Rican descent to be appointed to the Federal bench in NYC. In recommending her, Moynihan enabled the president to make good on a longstanding pledge to appoint a Hispanic judge in New York.
Among those who have publicly expressed support for Sotomayor are Sen. Chuck Schumer (who will be having a post-announcement press conference), Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (who is working to shore up her support among Hispanic voters in advance of the 2010 election) and Gov. David Paterson, who was very upset he didn't have the opportunity to appoint a Hispanic to New York's own high court.

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