Benjamin Cardozo Is The First Hispanic Justice

Judge Sonia Sotomayor has been choosen to replace David H Souter. She is the first hispanic justice to serve Supreme Court. Is it true?

The Answer is "NO". It's wrong.

Benjamin Cardozo is the first one.

“persons of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, Central or South American, or others Spanish or Portuguese culture or origin, regardless of race,” Benjamin Cardozo, whose surname is Portuguese, was the first Hispanic Justice.

Everyone says that Bill Richardson is an Hispanic governor, and I don’t see how Bill Richardson is any more Hispanic than Benjamin Cardozo.

Sotomayor’s assertion that “a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male” really rubs me the wrong way.

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