The denial of Tuan Thanh Phan’s pardon application comes as the U.S. Supreme Court clarified in a ruling Thursday the federal ...

The US Supreme Court’s ruling that Maryland parents could opt out of LGBTQ-inclusive lessons has put renewed focus on the role of New York City’s Department of Education (DOE) in protecting rights for ...

Last week, the Supreme Court ended a term unlike any other. The Roberts Court, with its 6-3 majority of Republican appointees ...

Parents have the right to keep their children from any instruction on LGBTQ themes in public schools, the U.S. Supreme Court ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday granted a bold bid by the Trump administration to throw out national injunctions that preserve the bedrock constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship while ...

The Supreme Court's decision affects bans in about half the states, many of which have enacted other restrictions on the ...

June 4, 2010 – The Bronxdale Houses public housing project she grew up in is renamed the Justice Sonia Sotomayor Houses and Community Center. July 12, 2010 – Commits to write and publish her ...

In 2019, a group of alumni established the Sonia Sotomayor 1976 Scholarship Fund in her honor to support students from first-generation backgrounds who have demonstrated a commitment to service.

Sotomayor, who grew up in the South Bronx and graduated from Princeton University, then Yale Law School, was the guest speaker for the Louis J. Gambaccini Civic Engagement Series program, a 90 ...

Both individuals are of Latina heritage and grew up in the Bronx in New York City, and much like Sotomayor was the first Latina ever appointed to the Supreme Court, Trucios-Haynes was the first ...

Sotomayor grew up in New York after her parents moved from Puerto Rico. She has dealt with diabetes since age 8 and lost her father at age 9, growing up under the care of her mother in humble ...