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SOTOMAYOR: I became a lawyer in the prosecutor’s office.
How did that experience - did that experience shape your views in any way as - both as a lawyer but also as a judge? I mean, this was getting into about as nitty-gritty as you could into the whole area of criminal law.
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Your co-counsel described you, quote, as a “Skilled legal practitioner who not only ruthlessly pursued justice for victims of violent crimes, but understood the root cause of crime and how to curb it.” You helped to secure a conviction, sentence of 62 years to life for the murders. Your co-counsel, Hugh Mo, described how you threw yourself into every aspect of the investigation, the prosecution of the case. He would swing on ropes into their apartments and rob them and steal, and actually killed three people. Your former boss, District Attorney Robert Morgenthal, the dean of the American Prosecutors, said one of the most important cases you worked on was the prosecution of the man known as the Tarzan Burglar. One of the things that I found appealing in your record, that you were a prosecutor, as many of us, both the ranking member and I had that privilege, and you worked on the front lines, an assistant district attorney in the Manhattan D.A.’s office. LEAHY: Well, you - let’s go into some of the particulars on this. It’s the process of not coming to a decision with a pre-judgment ever of an outcome and that reaching a conclusion has to start with understanding what the parties are arguing, but examining in all situations carefully the facts as they prove them or not prove them, the record as they create it, and then making a decision that is limited to what the law says on the facts before the judge.
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What my experiences on the trial court and the appellate court have reinforced for me is that the process of judging is a process of keeping an open mind.
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SOTOMAYOR: Senator Leahy, yesterday, many of the senators emphasized that their - the values they thought were important for judging, and central to many of their comments was the fact that a judge had to come to the process understanding the importance and respect the Constitution must receive in the judging process and an understanding that that respect is guided by, and should be guided by, a full appreciation of the limited jurisdiction of the court in our system of government, but understanding its importance as well. What qualities should a judge have and how does that experience you’ve had - how does that shape your approach - your approach to being on the bench? I mean, you’ve had time on both the trial court and the appellate court. What are the qualities that a judge should possess. You’re going to be the first Supreme Court nominee in more than 50 years who served as a federal trial court judge, the first in 50 years to have served as both a federal trial court and a federal appellate court judge. I would hope that everybody will keep their questions pertaining to you and to your background as a judge. If not, then we’ll go to - we’ll go to the next person.Īnd so we’re going to start with the questions here.
And we will - senators will be recognized based on seniority if they’re there. We will go back and forth between - between sides. I talked with Senator Sessions about this - excuse me - and what we’re going to do is have 30-minute rounds. With the way the traffic was today, I think some people are still having trouble getting in here. I will also have - I guess we’re one minute early here. If we can’t, then I will recess for those votes.
To the extent if we do have votes, to the extent that we can keep the hearing going during votes and have different senators leave between them, we will. Just so we can understand what’s going on, I’m not sure whether we have votes or not today. WITNESSES: JUDGE SONIA SOTOMAYOR, NOMINATED TO BE AN ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE U.S.
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