Archive for August, 2009
A new biographical page, detailing the political career of John “Honey Fitz” Fitgerald, one of the progenitors of the Kennedy clan, is now online at http://www.historyguy.com/biofiles/fitzgerald_john_francis_honeyfitz.htm
John Fitzgerald was the grandfather of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, President John Kennedy, and Senators Robert and Ted Kennedy.
Sonia Sotomayor was sworn in at 11 AM on Aug. 8, 2009 (8 AM on the West Coast), in Chief Justice Roberts’s conference room in the Suprme Court building. This will be the first time that a Supreme Court swearing in will be recorded on television. Prior to this event, television cameras have not been allowed in the Supreme Court. It is very interesting that Chief Justice Roberts allowed television cameras for the first time.
Sonia Sotomayor won confirmation of her nomination to sit on the nation’s highest court after the United States Senate approved her nomination on August 6, 2009 by a vote of 68–31. Judge Sotomayor will be the Supreme Court’s 111th justice, its third female Justice (after Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg) and the first Latina Justice. Technically, she is not the first Hispanic as former Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, who was a Sephardic Jew of Portuguese descent, was the first Hispanic on the Supreme Court.
http://www.historyguy.com/supremecourt/sonia_sotomayor_supreme_court_appointment.htm
