Sonia Sotomayor had been a federal appeals court judge for about four months when Ellen Chapnick got a phone call in 1998. The Columbia Law School lecturer's students had

At a Boston University lecture, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor encouraged students to maintain faith in the courts and resist political complacency.

In doing so, Sotomayor contended, it ignored both its own precedents and the clear violation of Crawford’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel. As she put it, “The right to direct the goals of one’s criminal defense plainly includes the right to decide whether to pursue freedom rather than confinement.”

Sonia Sotomayor spent her first week at Princeton University obsessing over the sound of a cricket. Growing up in New York City, her only notion of

Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s newly released children’s book was inspired, she said, by her late mother Celina Báez Sotomayor’s ability to make “people feel good about themselves.” After Baéz Sotomayor died of complications from cancer in 2021 ...

A United States prosecutor who tried to win a drug case by invoking racial prejudices received a lesson on Constitutional law from Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor today. Her lucid statement highlights the importance of equal protection under the law.

A judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Sonia Sotomayor's biography is so compelling that many view her as the presumptive front-runner for Obama's first Supreme Court appointment. She grew up in the South Bronx, the daughter of Puerto ...