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Notable background parallels between Judge Sotomayor and Justice Alito

By Douglas A. Berman

Though a lot is likely to be said and written about how different SCOTUS nominee Sonia Sotomayor is from other members of the Supreme Court, I am struck by some surprising background parallels between Judge Sotomayor and Justice Samuel Alito. Specifically, after growing up relatively modestly, both Judge Sotomayor and Justice Alito attended Princeton University and then went directly on to Yale Law School.  And, like Justice Alito, Judge Sotomayer's first big job was as a prosecutor ? though Justice Alito worked in the federal system as an assistant US attorney, while Judge Sotomayor was an assistant district attorney working under the famed Robert Morgenthauin Manhattan.  In addition, both Judge Sotomayor and Justice Alito were first named (at quite a young age) to the federal bench by President George H...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 26, 2009 (boomark / email).