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Being a justice. If you love law the way I do... you're given the job of a lifetime... you're permitted to address the most important legal questions of the country, and sometimes the world. And in doing so, you make a difference in people's lives.

~Sonia Sotomayor

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You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

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Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see.

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An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.

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Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system.

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Sometimes it gets boring. No justice is supposed to say that. But, you know, there's drudgery in every job you're going to do.

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I savor life. When you have anything that threatens life... it prods you into stepping back and really appreciating the value of life and taking from it what you can.

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I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences.

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Reaching a conclusion has to start with what the parties are arguing, but examining in all situations carefully the facts as they prove them or not prove them, the record as they create it, and then making a decision that is limited to what the law says on the facts before the judge.

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We have to look and ensure that we're paying attention to what we're doing, so that we don't reflexively institute processes and procedures that exclude people without thought.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Judge

Born: June 25th, 1954

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