Sonia Sotomayor was nominated to be one of the justices of the Supreme Court. She was one of the judges being chosen by President Obama because of her intellectual distinction and empathy towards others. Many have said that Sotomayor’s life mirrors the life of the incumbent president.
The Mexican-American War, waged between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848, helped to fulfill America's "manifest destiny" to expand its territory across the entire North American continent.
