Hispanic set for Supreme Court
Updated on 26 May 2009
President Barack Obama has nominated US Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court - making her the first Hispanic in history to be picked to wear the robes of a justice.
Obama's selection of the 54-year-old, whose parents moved to New York City from Puerto Rico before her birth, is an exercise of one of the most significant powers the US Constitution grants the American chief executive.
The president said he selected Sotomayor based on his search for a candidate with a "rigorous intellect" and "a mastery of the law" and one who recognised "the limits of the judicial role".
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