Each round of the NFL Draft has a limit of time each team may use to make their selection. If a team fails to make their selection in the allotted time, the team that is scheduled to select next may move ahead of the tardy team by turning in their draft pick first.
Sonia Sotomayor, the 54-year-old federal judge currently serving on the 2nd Circuit, is poised to become the nation's first Latina on the Supreme Court ...
President Barack Obama has made two successful appointments to the Supreme Court of the United States. The first was that of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Associate Justice David H. Souter. Sotomayor was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 6, 2009, by a vote of 68â31.n November 2007, Obama was asked about the kind of justices he would appoint to the Supreme Court. He responded: I taught constitutional law for 10 years, and. . . when you look at what makes a great Supreme Court justice, it's not just the particular issue and how they rule, but it's their conception of the Court.