Supreme Court Pick: Friend Of Harm Reduction?

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People Magazine

May 26 2009

Author: Brian Orloff

5 Things To Know About Sonia Sotomayor

If confirmed by the U.S. Senate this summer, Sonia Sotomayor would be become the first Hispanic to sit on the United State Supreme Court, and only the third woman to hold that post. Nominated by President Obama to replace retiring Associate Justice David Souter, Sotomayor, 54, is divorced, has no children and hails from New York City. Here are five other facts you may not know about her:

1. She Grew up in a Housing Project
Born in New York of Puerto Rican descent, Sotomayor was raised in a housing project in the South Bronx. Her father, a factory worker, died when she was a child. Sotomayor and her brother, a doctor, were raised by their mother, a nurse at a methadone clinic, the New York Times reports.

2. She Has Diabetes
Sotomayor was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when she was 8, one year before her father passed away.

3. Perry Mason Was an Inspiration
Sotomayor went to Princeton on a scholarship, earning a degree in 1976, before continuing on at Yale Law School, where she was editor of the Yale Law Journal. According to the New York Times, her interest in law stemmed from watching the show Perry Mason as a girl.

4. She Has Fashion Cred
After a stint as a prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney's office, Sotomayor worked in a commercial private practice. Among her high-class clients? Fendi and Ferrari.

5. She Has Friends in Both Parties
Sotomayor owes her first job as a federal judge to George H.W. Bush, who named her to the U.S. District Court, representing the Southern district of New York, in 1992. Then, in 1998, Bill Clinton promoted her, appointing Sotomayor to her current position on 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Do her liberal politics and mother who worked at a Methadone clinic give us an early sign that Obama's Supreme Court nominee will be a friend to Harm Reduction policies? Seeing as how Justices serve terms for life, this could mean a few decades of a friend to HR if true.

 

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I'd think that her ethnicity, as well as the environment she grew up in, would also give her a better understanding of what a failure our current stance on drugs has been.
We could only hope.

 

[Tchort]

His 'Drug Czar' is a disappointment. This is a guy who thinks liberal drug policies are supporting a repeal of the Federal ban on funding needle-exchanges, and an end to DEA raids on Medical Marijuana facilities/patients. Gee, what a revolutionary, soft hearted guy 8)

It sounds like a lot of these types know, they just won't do anything. Whats worse are the white skinned conservatives who work all day spreading anti-drug, anti-addict propaganda and working for harsher sentances for non-violent drug offenders, then go to their dealers house and pick up their bundles and rocks (the upper class uses more Heroin and Cocaine than the lower class according to the last few DC census').

 

[FrostyMcFailure]

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