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To: Land Shark who wrote (1532093)	4/4/2025 8:12:20 AM
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Then why did she need the affirmative action? "Academically, Sotomayor stumbled her first year at Princeton" "Sotomayor entered Yale Law School in the fall of 1976. [23] While she believes she again benefited from affirmative action to compensate for relatively low standardized test scores" "Following her second year, she gained a job as a summer associate with the prominent New York law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. [56] By her own later evaluation, her performance there was lacking. [57] She did not receive an offer for a full-time position, an experience that she later described as a "kick in the teeth" and one that would bother her for years." "In her third year, she filed a formal complaint against the established Washington, D.C., law firm of Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge for suggesting during a recruiting dinner that she was at Yale only via affirmative action." "Moynihan also wanted to fulfill a public promise he had made to get a Hispanic judge appointed for New York. [21] When Moynihan's staff recommended her to him, they said "Have we got a judge for you!" [8] Moynihan identified with her socio-economic and academic background and became convinced she would become the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice."