Obama Picks Sotomayor, Citing Intellect

Posted by Brenda González May 26, 2009

"WASHINGTON — President Obama announced on Tuesday that he will nominate the federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, choosing a daughter of Puerto Rican parents raised in a Bronx public housing project to become the nation’s first Hispanic justice." By PETER BAKER and JEFF ZELENY Published: May 26, 2009 The New York Times