Has President Obama appointed the first Hispanic to the Supreme Court? President Hoover may have beaten him to the punch in 1932 with the appointment of Benjamin Nathan Cardozo to succeed Oliver Wendell Holmes. Whether the nation has already had its first Hispanic justice depends on the answer to a seemingly simple question: Who's Hispanic?
Read more on that question and its implications for the court as well as U.S. demographics in this piece from the archives.
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