Yamparaez sotomayor biography
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I made the best arguments that I think the evidence would support.” And he looked at me, and he said, “That may all be true, but you’re missing passion. This is really not happening. Secondly, they have to condense what happens generally over a long period of time into a segment that’s half an hour or an hour long, so they get to shoot the most interesting parts and none of the drudgery that surrounds it.
I think they’d just pick it up and read it if they wanted to, because I’m thinking of books that some of my colleagues may have quoted that I haven’t read. Who was most dramatic, who could say it in a way that would engage people the most, and there would be a lot of clapping and stamping of feet when they finished, and I didn’t understand all the words because at least at that age I was still grappling with learning English, and my Spanish was a child’s Spanish.
And these were grown-up poems.
It, to me, was a passport out of my childhood and it remains a way through the power of words to change the world. I’m not an actively practicing Catholic on every occasion — I am a spiritual person — but I think the allegories, the stories, the parables of the Bible have influenced so much in the world. Understanding what those pictures symbolize to people, what they have meant, I think has made me a better-educated person.
And so, after those three years, when I felt a little bit more under control, and even to this day, I’m trying to maintain a piece of my personal life.
By now you increasingly have some very firm views on a lot of things that some of your colleagues do not agree with.
Sonia Sotomayor: I dissent a lot, don’t I?
Your voice in dissent is sometimes more passionate than your voice when you’re keeping a majority together.
Sonia Sotomayor: That’s natural.
What’s it like to lose?
Not everyone possesses that ability, and my grandmother taught it to me, as I watched everyone calling out to Mercedes, which was my mother’s, grandmother’s name. And so for me that’s been a lifelong lesson. But you’re reading not just the majority opinions but the dissenters and the concurrences, to determine how you think it’s the right way to rule, because that ruling is going to affect all the existing cases that that case touches upon.
Well, I am a media child, and the first lawyer I ever knew about was a TV character, Perry Mason. And they have very long legs, they’re very tall men and I’m not that tall, certainly not in comparison to them. It was actually a very good thing.
You’ve been talking about the power of words, which is great, but you haven’t mentioned music.
I wouldn’t write it unless I thought I was right.
Sonia Sotomayor: My mother, brother, and his family were in the back with the president and the vice president before my announcement. I write my dissent in the hope that in some day in the future a majority of the Court will see I was right. What did the two of you do together?
Sonia Sotomayor: What did I do with her?
Because words are so powerful, they’re instruments that can take anyone to where they want to go.
And so that was my job with her.
She knew every storekeeper in the neighborhood. If that wasn’t a possibility, people would feel the system was more unjust than it is.
On the old Perry Mason show there were no women in leadership roles, were there? The person who won thinks it’s very fair, and very just.