When a few hours are missing so that the Senate in plenary meeting Sonia Sotomayor votes for the assertion of the jueza for the Supreme Court, we believe necessarily to do a reflection on the historical decision that there will adopt 100 members of this legislative body.

The entire nation will be observing the event, which can lead Sotomayor to turning into the first jueza of Hispanic origin in being part of the highest court of justice of the country. A charge that for his importance and transcendency is of life character. Already last Tuesday, the Commission of Juridical Matters of the Senate approved the nomination for 13 affirmative votes and 6 in against, and entrusted the final and definitive decision to the Plenary meeting of the Senate.

In accordance with law, the nominated one needs most of three fifth parts (60) of the votes, to reach the assertion. To win for this minimal majority is sufficient but it might turn out to be "awkward" for the candidate, according to the Institute of Hispanic Leadership (USHLI, for his initials in English).

What yes is known is that approximately 20 republican senators will vote against Sotomayor, obeying diverse pretexts. Some of them are defending at any cost of the right to possess firearms and they think that the magistrate Sotomayor has an "ambiguous" position on the individual.

Nevertheless, five republicans have announced that they will vote for Sotomayor in the plenary meeting, although the number might grow. Those who already announced his support to the Hispanic jueza are: Susan Collins (Maine), Lindsay Graham (South Carolina), Richard Lugar (Indiana), Mel Martínez (Florida) and Olimpia Snowe (Maine). It is necessary to grant the merit to them from now on.
“ But we need fifteen more votes”, he warns the Institute of Hispanic Leadership (USHLI), who calculates that approximately 28 republican senators are undecided, therefore he recommends to write to them and to be grateful to them “so that they vote for this one brilliant and qualified Hispanic for the Supreme Court”.

We believe that this recommendation is of supreme importance, since only with resources of pressure – legitimate inside the system of this nation - it is achieved often that the politicians choose to continue the common sense.

The members of the Hispanic community we must learn to use these resources to reach targets for the sake of all, and to achieve that a magistrate like Sonia Sotomayor, with all the parchments obtained along his distinguished career, achieves to be selected to occupy the charge that is deserved in the Supreme Court of the United States.