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  Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin; deliberations on; facts of; oral arguments in; precedents for

  Flanigan, Timothy

  Florida: affirmative action in; Board of Accountancy in; Latino vote in; 2000 elections in

  Ford, Gerald

  Fordham University

  Fortas, Abe

  Fourteenth Amendment: applied to abortion; applied to affirmative action; applied to Latinos

  Fourth Amendment

  Fourth Circuit

  Franklin, Aretha

  Freedom Riders

  Frist, William

  Gale, Joseph

  Garland, Merrick

  Garre, Gregory

  Garza, Emilio

  Garza, Reynaldo Guerra

  gay rights

  gender; decision making and; discrimination based on; of Supreme Court judges

  George Washington University

  gerrymandering

  Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

  Gingrich, Newt

  Ginsburg, Jane

  Ginsburg, Martin; nomination campaign by

  Ginsburg, Ruth Bader; on abortion; on affirmative action; appointment of; background of; character of; as feminist; gender expression of; on integration; Janet Reno’s support for; on Kagan; Kennedy and; marriage of; offices of; on parental rights; on precedent; on SB 1070; Scalia’s friendship with; on voting rights

  Glazer, Nathan

  Globe and Mail

  Goldberg, Arthur

  Gonzales, Alberto

  Gonzalez, Efrain

  Good Morning America

  Gore, Al; in 2000 election

  GPS trackers

  Graham, Lindsey

  Granholm, Jennifer

  Gratz v. Bollinger

  Gray, Boyden

  Great Depression

  Gribetz, Judah

  Griggs v. Duke Power Co.

  Grutter v. Bollinger; applied in Fisher; Kennedy on

  Guantánamo

  Guevara, Che

  Guinier, Lani

  gun control

  Guzman, Sandra

  Hall, Peter

  Hamilton, David

  Hamilton, Lee

  Harvard Law Review

  Harvard University Law School: affirmative action at; African American graduates of; Latino graduates of; Obama at; professors at; Sotomayor on; Supreme Court justices from; white graduates of; see also Radcliffe College

  Harvard University Medical School

  Hatch, Orrin

  Haynsworth, Clement F., Jr.

  health care

  Heflin, Howell

  Hernández, Antonio

  Hernandez v. Texas

  Hill, Anita

  Hispanic Congressional Congress

  Hispanic National Bar Association: Estrada and; on nominations; Sotomayor and

  Hispanics, see Latino/as

  Hodgson, Godfrey

  Hogan, Cynthia

  Hogan & Hartson

  Holder, Eric

  Hollingsworth v. Perry

  Holy Cross College

  Hondurans

  household help

  Houshmand, Zara

  housing bias

  housing projects

  Howard University

  human rights abuses

  Ibanez v. Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation

  ideology, appointments and

  immigrants

  impartiality: activism vs.; empathy and; identity and

  inclusion, see affirmative action

  income inequality

  Indiana

  Indian Child Welfare Act

  informational privacy

  intellectual property

  Italian Americans

  Jacobi Medical Center

  Jacobs, Dennis

  Javits, Jacob

  Jeffords, Jim

  Jews, on Supreme Court

  Johnson, Lyndon B.; Marshall and

  Jones, Antoine

  Jones Act (1917)

  Jordan, Howard

  judges: appointment process for; Latinos denied appointment as; minorities appointed as; women as; see also specific courts and individuals

  juries

  Justice Sonia Sotomayor Houses

  Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

  juvenile sentencing

  Kagan, Elena; on campaign finance; D.C. circuit nomination of; Estrada and; in race cases; Souter’s seat and; Supreme Court appointment of; tactics of

  Kakutani, Michiko

  Katzenbach v. Morgan

  Katzmann, Robert

  Kennedy, Anthony: clerks for; in conservative bloc; as dancer; in race cases; as swing vote

  Kennedy, Edward M.; as Breyer booster

  Kennedy, John F.

  Kennedy, Robert F.

  Kennedy Center Honors

  Kerry, John

  King, Martin Luther, Jr.

  King, Wayne

  Klain, Ronald

  Kneedler, Edwin

  Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

  Koh, Harold

  Ku Klux Klan

  Kyl, John

  labor organizing

  Lady Gaga

  Latham & Watkins

  Latina

  Latin America, revolutions in

  Latino/as: attempts to reach Supreme Court by; as celebrities; civil rights efforts of; as collective identity; conflict among; criminalization of; economic opportunities for; education of; as federal judges; opposition to Estrada by; population growth of; segregation of; as termn; violence against; voting patterns of; voting rights of

  LatinoJustice, see Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF)

  La Vida (Lewis)

  law clerks, see clerkships

  Leahy, Patrick

  learning disabilities

  legal realism

  Lewis, John

  Lewis, Neil

  Lewis, Oscar

  Lieberman, Joseph

  Limbaugh, Rush

  Lindsay, John

  Lithwick, Dahlia

  Livingston, Debra Ann

  Lopez, Omar

  Los Angeles Times

  Lott, Trent

  Louisiana State University

  Luckovich, Mike

  Lugar, Richard

  Luttig, Michael

  lynching, of Latinos

  Maddicks, Richard

  Mademoiselle

  Major League Baseball

  Maldonado, Christina

  Marcus, Ruth

  Marrero, Victor

  marriage equality

  Marshall, Thurgood; on affirmative action; appointment of; on death penalty; Kagan and; racism faced by; retirement of

  Martin, Trayvon

  Martinez, Vilma

  Matson, R. J.

  McCain, John

  McConnell, Michael

  McDonald v. City of Chicago

  Meade, Christopher

  Meese, Edwin

  Mehta, Sonny

  Melrose House

  memoirs; see also My Beloved World

  Menendez, Robert

  merit

  Mexican American Bar Association

  Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF); on Cabranes; on Estrada; on SB 1070

  Mexican Americans: history of; judicial nominations and; on juries

  Miers, Harriet

  migration, of Puerto Ricans

  Milbank, Dana

  Mi mundo adorado (Sotomayor); see also My Beloved World

  minority recruitment, see affirmative action

  Miranda rights

  Mitchell, George

  Morales, Dan

  Morales, Esai

  Moran, Rachel

  Moreno, Enrique

  Moreno, Rita

  Morganthau, Robert

  Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, see Pyne Honor Prize

  Moynihan, Daniel Patrick; background of; in Beyond the Melting Pot; Cabranes and; Ginsburg and; judicial nomination process of; Katzmann and; on
race; Sotomayor supported by; Thomas and

  MSNBC

  multinational companies

  My Beloved World (Sotomayor); coauthor of; payment for; reviews of; tour for

  My Grandfather’s Son (Thomas)

  NAACP Legal Defense Fund

  Napolitano, Janet

  Nation, The

  National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials

  National Conference of Law Reviews

  National Council of La Raza

  National Labor Relations Board

  National Puerto Rican Coalition

  National Review

  Native Americans

  Navarrette, Ruben, Jr.

  NBC

  Newfield, Jack

  New Haven

  New Haven Register

  New Republic, The

  New Year’s Eve, 2013

  New York: crime in; DA’s office in; judicial nominations from; Latino voters in; New Year’s Eve in; Puerto Ricans in

  New York City Campaign Finance Board

  New York Daily News

  New York Times; Clinton nominees in; Moynihan and; Sotomayor covered by

  New York University

  New York Yankees

  9/11, see September 11, 2001

  1964 Civil Rights Act; Title VII of

  1965 Voting Rights Act; Section 5 of

  1980 elections

  1991 Civil Rights Act

  1992 elections

  1996 elections

  Nixon, Richard M.

  Noonan, Kevin: career of; and dating Sotomayor; divorce of; marriage of

  Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No. 1 v. Holder

  NPR

  Nussbaum, Bernard

  “Nuyorican,” definition of

  Obama, Barack; books by; on Bush’s Supreme Court nominees; on Citizens United; on conservative court strategy; on Constitution; Guantánamo and; judicial nominees of; Kagan appointed by; Latino support for; on race; Sotomayor appointed by; on Souter; staff of; in 2008 elections; in 2012 elections

  Obama, Michelle

  O’Connor, John

  O’Connor, Sandra Day; on affirmative action; gender of; on Marshall; memoirs of; retirement of

  Ogletree, Charles

  O’Melveny & Myers

  Ortiz, Carlos; background of; Estrada and

  Osnos, Peter

  Oxford University

  parental rights

  Parents Involved v. Seattle School District No. 1

  Parker, Barrington

  Patterson, John

  Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

  Pavia & Harcourt

  Payne v. Texas

  PBS

  Peck, Jeff

  Peck, Robert

  Perales, Cesar

  Perot, Ross

  Perry, Barion

  Peters, Bernadette

  Peterson, Latoya

  Pew Research Center’s Hispanic Trends Projectn

  Phi Beta Kappa Society

  Pinholster, Scott Lynn

  Pitre v. Cain

  Pittsburgh Pirates

  Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey

  Pláton

  police brutality

  Pooler, Rosemary; on Ricci; on Sotomayor

  Pope Paul VI

  poverty; of Sotomayors

  Powell, Lewis

  prejudices, development of

  presidents: judicial appointments by; see also elections; specific presidents

  Price, Polly

  Princeton University; Sotomayor at

  prisoners’ rights; see also death penalty

  Project on Fair Representation

  Proposition 8

  Proposition 209

  Puerto Rican Action

  Puerto Rican Bar Association

  Puerto Rican Day Parades

  Puerto Rican Federal Affairs Administration

  Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF); Estrada and

  Puerto Rican Nationalist Party

  Puerto Ricans: as celebrities; civil rights efforts of; education of; Mexican Americans and; migration by; nationalism of; poverty of; pride of; stereotypes about; unemployment of; see also Cabranes, José; Latino/as; Sotomayor, Sonia

  Puerto Rico; independence movement for; population of; see also Puerto Ricans

  Pyne Honor Prize

  race: decision making and; elections and; of Supreme Court judges; see also affirmative action; civil rights; Latino/as; racism; voting rights

  racial profiling

  racism; in criminal justice system; faced by Marshall; faced by Mexicans; faced by Puerto Ricans; Senate and; Sotomayor accused of; Sotomayor’s experiences of; in South

  Radcliffe College

  Raggi, Reena

  “Raising the Bar” (conference)

  Reagan, Ronald: judicial nominations by; Roberts and; Thomas and

  Reason

  reasonable doubt

  Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

  Rehnquist, William: costumes of; Roberts and

  Rein, Bert; in Fisher; in Shelby

  Reno, Janet

  Reynoso, Cruz

  Ricci, Frank

  Ricci v. DeStefano; Cabranes and; facts of; heard by Second Circuit; heard by Supreme Court; legal issues at stake in; oral arguments in

  right-to-life movement; see also abortion rights

  riots: by African Americans; against Latinos; by Latinos

  Roberts, John G.: on campaign finance; as chief justice; in conservative bloc; D.C. Circuit nomination of; as deputy solicitor general; on Kagan; on race; Supreme Court appointment of; Sotomayor and

  Roberts, Richard

  Rockettes

  Roe v. Wade

  Roll Call

  Romano, Benito

  Romeu, Xavier

  Romney, Mitt

  Root, Damon

  Rosado, Rossana

  Rosen, Jeffrey

  Rosselló, Pedro

  Rubio, Marco

  Rudman, Warren

  Rutgers University

  Sack, Robert; Ricci and

  Salon.com

  salsa music

  San Felipe Segundo (huricane)

  Saslow, Eli

  Saxon, William

  SB 1070

  Scalia, Antonin; in conservative bloc; constitutional originalism of; on D.C. Circuit; on Fisher; Ginsburg’s friendship with; as Italian American; in Ricci; Sotomayor and; on tracking devices

  Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action

  Schumer, Charles E.; Estrada and; on ideology

  searches and seizures

  Second Amendment

  Second Circuit; Cabranes on; Ricci and; Sotomayor appointed to; Sotomayor supporters from

  segregation; busing and; see also Brown v. Board of Education

  Senate Judiciary Committee; on Estrada; mechanics of; on Sotomayor; see also Congress

  sentencing

  separation of church and state

  September 11, 2001

  Serrano, José

  Sesame Street

  Sessions, Jeff

  Seventh Circuit; Diane Wood on

  sex discrimination

  sexism, faced by Sotomayor

  sexual harassment

  Shape of the River, The (Bowen)

  Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge

  Shaw, Theodore

  Shelby County v. Holder

  Shepard, Carmen

  Sixth Circuit

  Slate

  Sotomayor, Celina Baez (mother); career of; childhood of; education of; immigration of; marriage of; as mother

  Sotomayor, Juan “Juli” (father)

  Sotomayor, Juan “Junior” (brother)

  Sotomayor, Mercedes

  Sotomayor, Sonia: ABA on; on balance of power; baseball and; birth of; Cabranes and; career of; character of; childhood of; circuit court appointment of; clerks for; community of; as dancer; dating and; diabetes of; disparagement
of; in district attorney’s office; district court appointment of; education of; Estrada and; fashion of; father of, see Sotomayor, Juan; as first Latino on court; on Fisher; as inspiration; on judicial diversity; judicial philosophy of; Kagan compared to; lawyers’ reviews of; legal realism of; marriage of; memoirs of; mentors of; Mexican support for; mother of, see Sotomayor, Celina; on 9/11; opinions of; on parenting; as “people’s justice”; racism faced by; religion of; on Ricci; self-identification of; sexism faced by; social justice and; Supreme Court cases of; as Supreme Court justice; Supreme Court nomination of; Supreme Court relationships of; Thomas and; “wise Latina” speech of; work habits of

  Souter, David; on integration; Kennedy and; retirement of; on Ricci

  South Carolina

  Southern Methodist University

  Spain

  Specter, Arlen

  standardized testing

  Stanford University

  stare decisis

  State of New York Mortgage Agency

  states’ rights

  Stephanopoulos, George

  Stevens, John Paul; retirement of

  Stewart, Potter

  St. Patrick’s Cathedral

  Strangers Among Us (Suro)

  Straub, Chester

  strikes

  Suffolk University Law School

  sugar crops

  Sugrue, James

  Sulzberger, Arthur O. “Punch”

  Sunstein, Cass

  Sununu, John

  SUNY Stony Brook

  Supreme Court: chief justices of; clerks for, see clerkships; Clinton appointees to; coalition building in; conservative strategy for; end-of-term party of; gender cases before; gender diversity of; geographical diversity of; ideological shifts within; minority lawyers before; nomination process for; offices in; perception of; procedures of; race cases before; racial diversity of; religious diversity of; Sotomayor’s first cases with; staidness of; in 2000 elections; see also specific cases and judges

  Suro, Roberto

  surveillance

  Sutton, Jeffrey

  “10 Most Intriguing People of 2009, The” (CNN)

  Tenth Circuit

  testing

  Texas: affirmative action in; Bush and; death row in; Latino judges in; Latinos in; Thomas in; voting districts in

  Third Circuit

  Third World Center

  Thomas, Clarence; on affirmative action; African Americans and; career of; clerks of; in conservative bloc; memoirs of; nomination of; racism faced by; Sotomayor on

  Thompkins, Van Chester

  Thornburgh, Dick

  “3 Recommended for U.S. Court: One Is Hispanic” (King)

  Thurmond, Strom

  Time

  Title VII (of 1964 Civil Rights Act)

  Torre, Karen

  Torres, Esteban

  Totenberg, Nina

  tracking devices

  Trager, David

  Traister, Rebecca

  Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)

  Treaty of Paris (1898)

  Tribe, Lawrence

  Truman, Harry