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 ...
The court's first female justice, Sandra Day O'Connor, was nominated by a Republican president in 1981 and was regarded as a conservative pick. The second female justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, was the choice of a Democratic president in 1993 and widely viewed as liberal. The two women served together until O'Connor's retirement in 2005. Ginsburg remained as the lone female justice on the Supreme Court until Sonia Sotomayor took the bench in the fall of 2009.