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NYC Latinos celebrate Sotomayor confirmation
Photo credit: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite | President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the fourth day of her confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 16, 2009. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Senate Confirms Sotomayor for Supreme Court
Justice Sonia Sotomayor and her confirmation process
From the Bronx neighborhood where she was raised to downtown Manhattan where she volunteered as a young lawyer, Latinos celebrated the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor as the first Hispanic justice to the U.S. Supreme Court.
"On a personal level, it's exhilarating," said Luis M. Álvarez, who served alongside Sotomayor on the board of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, a public...
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