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She earned a ba from princeton university and a jd from yale law school. Justice sonia sotomayor lit up twitter after issuing a dissent against the supreme courts 54 vote to allow an immigrant wealth test designed to weed out green card applicants deemed likely. An evening with sonia sotomayor in conversation with. Eventbrite east city bookshop presents sonia sotomayor, just ask. In 2009, she was confirmed as the first latina supreme court. When on the lower court, she ended the 1994 baseball strike. Sotomayor was born in the bronx on june 25, 1954 to juan sotomayor and celina baez, both native puerto ricans. Supreme court justice sonia sotomayors memoir my beloved country is the 2018 book for east lansing, msu one book. Interview requests must be made in advance of the conference by contacting shanta.
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The daughter of parents who moved to new york city from puerto rico, sotomayor was raised in a housing project in the bronx. Jan 22, 20 sonia sotomayors searching and emotionally intimate memoir, my beloved world, charts her lifes journey to become a supreme court justice. Sotomayor turns out to be a writer of depth and literary flair. Justice sotomayor talks about her two new books for children. Oct 11, 2018 the beloved world of sonia sotomayor, an adaptation for middlegrade readers of the bestselling book my beloved world, is a poignant, intimate memoir. Supreme court justice sonia sotomayor in conversation. My beloved world by sonia sotomayor the boston globe. Sep 17, 2018 justice sotomayor, 64, published one book geared toward middleschoolaged children, the beloved world of sonia sotomayor, as well as an illustrated version for younger children that comes.
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