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The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice
Sarah Crichton Books
October 2014
On Sale: October 7, 2014
288 pages
ISBN: 0374298742
EAN: 9780374298746
Kindle: B00J6TUZYM
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Non-Fiction Political
"I knew she’d be trouble." So quipped Antonin Scalia about Sonia Sotomayor at the
Supreme Court’s annual end-of-term party in 2010. It’s
usually the sort of event one would expect from such a grand
institution, with gentle parodies of the justices performed
by their law clerks, but this year Sotomayor decided to
shake it up—flooding the room with salsa music and coaxing
her fellow justices to dance. It was little surprise in 2009 that President Barack
Obama nominated a Hispanic judge to replace the retiring
justice David Souter. The fact that there had never been a
nominee to the nation’s highest court from the nation’s
fastest growing minority had long been apparent. So the time
was ripe—but how did it come to be Sonia Sotomayor? In Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the
Politics of Justice, the veteran journalist Joan Biskupic
answers that question. This is the story of how two forces
providentially merged—the large ambitions of a talented
Puerto Rican girl raised in the projects in the Bronx and
the increasing political presence of Hispanics, from
California to Texas, from Florida to the Northeast—resulting
in a historical appointment. And this is not just a tale
about breaking barriers as a Puerto Rican. It’s about
breaking barriers as a justice. Biskupic, the author of highly praised judicial
biographies of Justice Antonin Scalia and Justice Sandra Day
O’Connor, now pulls back the curtain on the Supreme Court
nomination process, revealing the networks Sotomayor built
and the skills she cultivated to go where no Hispanic has
gone before. We see other potential candidates edged out
along the way. And we see how, in challenging tradition and
expanding our idea of a justice (as well as expanding her
public persona), Sotomayor has created tension within and
without the court’s marble halls. As a Supreme Court justice, Sotomayor has shared her
personal story to an unprecedented degree. And that story—of
a Latina who emerged from tough times in the projects not
only to prevail but also to rise to the top—has even become
fabric for some of her most passionate comments on matters
before the Court. But there is yet more to know about the
rise of Sonia Sotomayor. Breaking In offers the larger, untold story of the woman who
has been called "the people’s justice."
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