David Ortez

If you were hiding under a rock the last 24 hours or perhaps you were catching up on every movie ever touched by John Hughes then you may have missed history.

The United States Senate unanimously voted with a 68-31 total to confirm the Honorable Sonia Sotomayor and paved the way for her to become the nation’s first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice of the United States.

Well, I have scoured the Internet as best that I could and have found the following statements from the Mayoral Candidates and Texas State Representative Carol Alvarado.

Texas State Representative Carol Alvarado of District 145 in Houston, Texas and formerly Houston City Councilmember of District I states:

This should be a no-brainer for President Barack Obama. Before one must entertain who should be replacing Supreme Court Justice David Souter … Obama should reflect on the historical makeup of the Supreme Court in the last 100 years and the potential makeup of American society in the next 30 years.

In the history of the Supreme Court: