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Newly minted Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will enjoy the highest honor of her young career on Saturday — she’ll be throwing out the first pitch at  the Yankees-Red Sox game.

“Having Justice Sotomayor, a South Bronx native, participate in our yearly Hispanic Heritage Month celebration is very exciting, as she is an inspiration to so many,” Manuel García, the Yankees’ director of Latino Affairs, said in a statement. “We are proud to welcome her and President Martinelli to our new home.” Read more..

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  Sotomayor was nominated on May 26 to replace David Souter She has rounded the bases and will now be playing in the big leagues.

Roughly 50 years ago Judge Sonia Sotomayor, the daughter of Puerto Rican parents, was growing up in a public housing project in the South Bronx not far from the old stadium of her favorite team: the New York Yankees. Since then she has gone on to graduate summa cum laude from Princeton and then attend Yale law school. Now, after a three-decade career that saw her work at almost every level of the judicial system, her journey has arguably reached its climax.

By a senate vote of 68-31 Sotomayor became the U.S. Supreme Court’s 111th justice, as well as its first Latina and third female member. Read more..

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Sonia Sotomayor has a Wikipedia page, so in just a few minutes you can know more about Obama’s pick to replace David Souter on the Supreme Court than we do. You probably already know that she is a homegirl, born in the South Bronx.

You may get a glimpse of the conservative case against her at National Review’s Bench Memos, where Ed Whelan tells us some of Sotomayor’s decisions on the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit have been reviewed by the Supreme Court, and that her nomination to her first big job by the first George Bush is no guarantee against right wing attack, because her nomination was engineered by the hated arch-liberal Pat Moynihan. Read more..

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