Corey Sotomayor

Queue up the Pomp and Circumstance - Over 5,000 students clad in their alma mater’s violet cap and gowns will take to the stands of Yankee Stadium this May for NYU’s graduation ceremony. This graduating class of 2012 marks the university’s 180th Commencement Exercises and the 5th of such ceremonies to be held at Yankee Stadium.  Ready to celebrate your favorite student’s momentous occasion? NYU Graduation CeremonyMay 16, 2012Yankee Stadium Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the...Read Full Story

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings began Monday, and the results were intense and electrifying. Or not. The first day passed uneventfully with plenty of baseball analogies, no real questions for the nominee, and a general opinion that Sotomayor, barring some weird revelation, is going to sail through the confirmation.In short, it was boring.So you can't really blame her two young nephews, Corey and Conner Sotomayor, for dozing off during the hours-long snooze fest...Read Full Story

Written by Stephen Menendian and Brookes Hammock Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals is the nation’s first Latina nominated to the United States Supreme Court, and would be only the third woman to join that bench. Shortly after her nomination, in response to a speech Sotomayor made in which she claimed “that a wise Latina woman” would “reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life,” Rush Limbaugh and others called her a "reverse-racist." That...Read Full Story

Tom Bevan over at the RCP breathlessly reports (parroted, of course, by Lickspittle Drudge) on a new CNN showing that, after six months, more people rate the Obama administration as “a failure” than Bush’s at six months. Of course, I DEFY you to name a single initiative or accomplishment of Bush’s first six months… and “clearing brush at the Crawford Ranch” doesn’t count. One word for the neocons and wingnuts regarding Sonia Sotomayor’s 61-38 confirmation to be an associate justice on the US...Read Full Story

By Andrew Grant-Thomas “During the campaign, [Obama] promised to nominate someone who's got the heart and the empathy to recognize what it's like to be a young, teenaged mom. The implication is that our judges today don't have that. Do you realize how astounding that is? The empathy to understand what it's like to be poor, to be African-American or gay or disabled or old…. I believe that standard is antithetical to the proper role of a judge. Judge Sotomayor… you must demonstrate that you...Read Full Story

The LA Times asked several successful Latinas to "assess" Sonia Sotomayor and the way Senators treated her during the Judicial Committee nominations hearings last week. All the woman surveyed had very poignant observations but I thought Josefina Lopez, author of the play/film "Real Women Have Curves", really put it out there: "Many people seem to assume that because Sonia Sotomayor's an ethnic woman, or because of the wise Latina comment, she's going to be biased. That's racist. They're...Read Full Story

Hoo boy! Judge Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court confirmation hearings kicked off this morning, and like RaceWire's Debayani Kar said earlier, this thing is going to be lousy with clumsy conservative race and gender politics. Not to mention a foregone conclusion in favor of confirmation, according to Republican Sotomayor naysayer Lindsey Graham's opening statements. RaceWire will be blogging about, but not liveblogging about, the coming week of proceedings. Quite a few of our allies in the...Read Full Story

CNN: Judge Sonia Sotomayor was expected to easily win Senate confirmation Thursday as two more Republican senators announced their support for the country's first Hispanic high-court pick. The final day of debate is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m., with a vote on her nomination scheduled for about 3 p.m. Legal sources said a White House swearing-in ceremony could happen as early as Friday. A new nationwide poll also showed that a majority of Americans now believe the Senate should confirm...Read Full Story

Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place Essays on politics, culture and ideas about Israeli-Arab peace and world music Muslim and Jewish Women in Nazareth 'We can live in peace'...John Lennon (photo: Dafna Tal) Mahzor New York Public Library Sarajevo Haggadah Mah Nishtanah Antaea Darom Israeli women's art Torah as music Ben Heine ceramic bowl Mohammad Said Kalash, "Offering Reconciliation" exhibit (photo: Ilan Amihai) Punch and Judy/Pinchas and...Read Full Story

While we should all be proud that a wise, experienced woman of color is on the cusp of becoming a Supreme Court Justice, I am frankly embarrassed by the sexism and racism on display by Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama during Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings. Here we have two white southern males, one afraid to come out of the closet, the other wearing his hypocrisy on his sleeve. First watch Senator Graham question Sotomayor’s...Read Full Story