Sonia Sotomayor Nominated for Supreme Court

President Obama on Tues. selected U.S. Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor to serve on the high court, the child of Puerto Rican parents who has achieved success and could now replace retiring Justice David Souter and become the 1st Hispanic and the 3rd woman ever to serve on the supreme court.

Calling Sotomayor "a provoking woman," Obama declared that he looked not only at intellect and the facility to be unprejudiced but at life experience and the facility to relate to normal Americans in selecting Sotomayor as his nominee. At a presidency meeting, Sotomayor thanked the president for "the most humbling honor" of her life. "My heart today is bursting with gratitude," she announced. If confirmed by the Senate, the 54-year-old judge would bring virtually seventeen years of expertise on the Fed bench and a record of bipartisan appeal to the supreme court. She was first allocated to Fed bench in the Southern District of Manhattan in 1992 by President George H.W. Bush and was named to the following Circuit Court of Appeals by President Bill Clinton in 1998. Obama announced Sotomayor has more experience as a judge than any of the justices had when they were designated for their positions on the supreme court. Souter is regarded as a liberal voice on the bench, and Sotomayor is predicted to keep on that trend. Still, Republicans are not predicted to put up much of a fight. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell recounted his colleagues will treat Sotomayor reasonably but need time to argue her qualifications. "We will entirely inspect her record to make sure she understands the role of a jurist in our democracy is to apply the law even-handedly, in spite of their own feelings or private or political preferences," McConnell claimed in a press release posted on his site.