OUR NEWEST UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT MEMBER : JUSTICE SONIA SOTOMAYOR.........

It is a proud and overdue moment in American history for Hispanic citizens in the United States with the nomination, confirmation and installation, of the very first Hispanic Justice ever and only the third woman to sit as a Supreme Court Justice and that, is in just the past 28 years. This Latina woman, about which much has been made the last 2 months, is a first generation, ,Puerto Rican American. She was valedictorian of her high school class, second in her class at Princeton University, an outstanding law student at Yale, where she was Editor of the Law Review, one of the highest recognitions a law student can receive. The bedrock, core values of our democracy include Freedom and Fairness. This outstanding Latina woman scholar, attorney, and judge, deserves the opportunity for a fair start to become a respected and diligent 111th U.S. Supreme Court Justice. She also is making history being a Catholic, the 6th Catholic,-Christian sitting on our highest Court, another historical first and making the Catholic to non Catholic ratio of the Supreme Court, an unprecedented, 2-1. Politics aside, what we now know is that Justice Sotomayor is a moderate liberal, and moderates appointed by conservative or progressive Presidents have often proven to be unpredictable votes as confirmed for life, sans impeachment, Justices. Again, I am not advocating she not be judged objectvely for the decisions she will render the next 20-30 years perhaps, but responded to fairly and not merely through a partisan prism.........Fr. Troy