Breaking In: The Rise Of Sonia Sotomayor - Plot & Excerpts
All but 4 of these justices were white men, reflecting the traditional power base of the nation. Beginning with African American Thurgood Marshall in 1967, the groundbreakers navigated the public expectations and internal rituals of a tradition-bound institution. Veteran civil rights litigator Marshall and women’s rights attorney Ruth Bader Ginsburg remained advocates, to an extent, based on their respective identities. Sandra Day O’Connor and Clarence Thomas resisted being defined by their sex and race.1 The four varied, too, in what they revealed of their personal difficulties traversing the overwhelmingly white male world. None would be as publicly candid as Sotomayor. The way she presented herself to audiences—intimately, relentlessly—set her apart from all other justices. Commentators would begin calling her “the people’s justice.” But her style and all the attention did not always suit the other Supreme Court justices and the legal elite in their orbit. Sotomayor knew that she stood out.
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