AP: Sotomayor Humor
Posted by Keith Kamisugi | Filed under Her Story
An AP article recounts a joke by Judge Sotomayor, as pieced together from the Supreme Court nominee’s typed and handwritten notes for a 2006 speech at Hofstra University (full article here):
A Supreme Court justice, a circuit judge and a district judge go duck hunting.
A duck flies overhead and the Supreme Court justice, before he picks [...]
Tags: AP, associated press, humor, speech
WaPo: Years as N.Y. Prosecutor Gave Sotomayor Firsthand Look at Crime and Punishment
Posted by Keith Kamisugi | Filed under Her Story, Media Coverage
From the Washington Post: “The five years Sotomayor spent in the Manhattan district attorney’s office, say several friends and colleagues, shaped her as a criminal prosecutor and helped form her worldview as a judge. The experience, combined with her later years as a trial judge, would make her unique among her new colleagues at the [...]
Tags: district attorney, new york, prosecutor, washington post
