His Qualifications
He graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor’s degree from Columbia in 1983. He received a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree magna cum laude in 1986 from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. After law school, Estrada served as a law clerk to Judge Amalya Lyle Kearse of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He then clerked for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court during his first year on the Court in 1988. One of his fellow clerks during that year was Peter Keisler, another controversial conservative nominee to the D.C. Circuit whose nomination was never processed by the Senate Democrats during the 110th Congress.
From 1990 until 1992, Estrada served as Assistant U.S. Attorney and Deputy Chief of the Appellate Section, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York. In 1992, he joined the United States Department of Justice as an Assistant to the Solicitor General for the Clinton Administration. In those capacities, Estrada represented the government in numerous jury trials and in many appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, he practiced law in New York with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.
Why are we making such a big deal about Sonia Sotomayor. Well the liberal democrats are making such a big deal because she is Hispanic and female but mainly because she is Hispanic. Well big woop! Conservatives already tried appointing a Hispanic man that would have been one step away from the Supreme Court but the democrats filibustered until Miguel just took himself out of the picture.
Not all liberals but quite a few seem to be predjudice. Since when do we look at a persons color of skin over their character and true qualifications? Skin color and gender should never qualify somebody for a job.
