The nomination announced by the President Barack Obama, of Sonia Sotomayor as Jueza of the Supreme Court to replace the Judge David Souter – the one who presented his resignation to the charge - represents a gigantic step for the Hispanic community.

A vote of confidence is the fact that the chief has elected a representative of Latin origin as a member of a select group of persons whose work is to decide on critical topics for the country, and whose transcendental decisions are analyzed across the prism of the history.
Of being confirmed by the Senate, the responsibility that would relapse on the Sotomayor shoulders is certainly enormous. But, as Obama indicated it on having announced his decision, there is prestigious lawyer, daughter of Puerto Rican and born in the quarter of New York of the Bronx, has the necessary parchments to fulfill fully the entrusted tasks.

“ During the last eleven years, he has been a judge in the Court of Appeals of the Second District of New York, one of the most demanding of the country. As such, it expressed mistakes on a variety of constitutional and juridical matters that are characterized by his meticulous reasoning, what has made her deserving of the respect of his companions in the court, the lawyers' admiration and the adoration of his secretaries”, sustained Obama in his presentation.

We consider the election of the President to be brilliant for several motives. First, because in spite of being labeled like “more liberal” of four final candidates for the position, the republicans will think it two times before throwing his early attacks to Sotomayor.

Certainly, the Republican Party has a constitutional duty to examine the nominated Jueza and to prove not only his juridical vision, not also philosophical and of value. The republican leaders know it.

Other one of the reasons worthy of applause is that it puts a woman belonging to a minority in a Supreme Court dominated by men. Also, Sotomayor, like the only in being proposed to integrate the maximum court of justice, coroner will provide his experience and a largeness of look that definitely will favor the Supreme Judges.

His origins in a slum of the Bronx, having lost his father when she was still a girl, but at the same time to become a brilliant student in the prestigious schools of laws of Princeton and yale, are elements that they enrich and raise his personal history. Its own nomination is an example of what someone, in spite of the adversities, can achieve in country how in which we live.

Washington Hispanic hopes that the Senate I was on a par of the historical moment through that there lives not only the Hispanic community but the whole country, and confirm Sonia Sotomayor as Jueza of the Supreme Court of the United States.

When Sonia Sotomayor raises these marble steps to take his bench in the highest court of the country, the United States will have given another important step to make real the ideal that is recorded in the entry: Justice for all equally, in accordance with the laws”. Barack Obama
on May 26, 2009