Commentary: Newsom can have a historic ‘Sotomayor moment’ by appointing a Latina to the California Supreme Court
by Helen Iris Torres, Los Angeles Times
Jan 04, 2022
2 minutes
On May 26, 2009, President Barack Obama made history by nominating Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court. It was a pivotal moment in Obama’s relationship with us Latinas. His selection of Sotomayor to be the court’s first Latina justice communicated and acknowledged that Latinas play a vital part in
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