NSCLC applauds Sotomayor nomination for Supreme Court

The National Senior Citizens Law Center applauds President Obama’s decision to nominate Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court.

Judge Sotomayor will bring to the Supreme Court a virtually unparalleled breadth and depth of legal experience, plus extraordinary real-world experience that enables her to appreciate the impact of the law on the lives of ordinary Americans. 

She has been a successful prosecutor in the nation’s biggest city, a corporate litigator in private practice, a federal trial judge on the U.S. District Court, and a highly regarded and accomplished appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.  Just by the numbers, this record represents more federal judicial experience than any Supreme Court justice in 100 years. 

NSCLC considers it important that Judge Sotomayor will bring to the High Court a common-sense grasp of the realities faced by Americans in many walks of life, based on her experience growing up in a public housing project in the South Bronx, winning a scholarship to Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude, and moving to the highest levels of achievement in the law.

Paul Nathanson, Executive Director of NSCLC, said that, “Older Americans, especially low-income older Americans, have a large stake in courts committed to faithful application of legal protections for access to health care, retirement security, equal job opportunity, consumer protection, and product safety.  Judge Sotomayor’s record shows that on the Supreme Court she will be a strong voice for seeing that those safeguards are fairly enforced.”