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Justice Sotomayor visits Berkeley elementary school
SFGate.com ^ | 2/2/11 | Lance Knobel

Posted on 02/02/2011 5:36:33 PM PST by NormsRevenge

Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor paid a surprise visit to Rosa Parks Elementary School in West Berkeley this morning. Sotomayor is in Berkeley to judge a moot court competition at the University of California Berkeley Law School, Boalt Hall, this evening. The competition has been moved to Zellerbach Hall because of the demand for tickets.

Sotomayor chose Rosa Parks because two children of law school dean Chris Edley and his wife, Maria Echaveste, attend the school, and she heard about its commitment to diversity and its Spanish language immersion program. Sotomayor is the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice and the third female justice.

The children only found out this morning that Sotomayor would be visiting, but they had been studying her career since the two classroom teachers had been informed of the visit. In the first class the justice visited, the children performed a play about Rosa Parks. Sotomayor then shook every student's hand before answering questions.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: berkeley; diversity; elementaryschool; sotomayor; visits
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To: Red Badger
Yep. Intellectual equals.
21 posted on 02/02/2011 6:38:02 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: NormsRevenge

The Rosa Parks Government Indoctrination Center.


22 posted on 02/02/2011 6:49:30 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: NormsRevenge

Look at that filthy “BARACK” book behind her. He looks like any of a number of two bit communist dictator hacks, etc. God, what has happened to the country I used to love? (rhetorical).


23 posted on 02/02/2011 6:59:03 PM PST by Gapplega
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To: NormsRevenge

“Yes little girls, you be what you want’a be!

Here, I be lookin’ like a latino lesbian slut that jus’ poked her head out’a da gutter, and lookie at me, I be on the SOTUS!


24 posted on 02/02/2011 7:25:42 PM PST by Noob1999 (Loose Lips Sink Ships)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Berkeley seems to have gotten into honoring Southerners.

Here there is an elementary school named for an Alabama woman.

They also have a major street named after a Georgia clergyman, and another street after a man who lived in Mississippi for a number of years before moving to California (Eugene Hilgard--also honored by a building on the UC Berkeley campus...he was actually born in Germany but was a professor of Chemistry at Ole Miss).

25 posted on 02/02/2011 8:28:08 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: NormsRevenge
Justice Sotomayor visits Berkeley elementary school

..in search of somebody she can feel smarter than.

26 posted on 02/02/2011 9:05:53 PM PST by OrangeHoof (Washington, we Texans want a divorce!)
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