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
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