Barbara Lagoa, an appeals court judge from Florida, is on President Trump’s short list to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. Lagoa is a daughter of Cuban immigrants who has had a swift rise as a lawyer and judge.
The president said Monday that he does not personally know Barbara Lagoa, but praised her as “terrific.” Barely veiled was the fact that, as a Cuban-American from South Florida’s city of Hialeah, her selection could benefit Trump in the Nov. 3 election, when Florida could be the ultimate kingmaker. Lagoa grew up in a heavily Hispanic suburb of Miami.
Lagoa, an only child, once joked that after graduating from Florida International University leaving her close-knit Cuban-American family for New York to obtain her law degree from Columbia University “was not a popular decision in my house.” Before that, for less than a year she was a justice on the Florida Supreme Court after more than a decade on a Miami-based state appeals court where she wrote some 360 opinions. She was the first woman of Hispanic heritage on the state Supreme Court.
“It is extremely exciting to have a fellow first-generation Cuban-American from Hialeah,” said Annette Collazo, also a daughter of exiles who is running as a Democrat for state representative in a district that includes Hialeah. “I temper that excitement with the reality. While diversity in background and views are extremely important, we also need diversity in judicial approach.”
The decision upheld a state law passed by the Republican-led Legislature that critics say violates the spirit of a constitutional amendment overwhelming approved by Florida voters in 2018 that potentially would enfranchise tens of thousands of former felons without the monetary considerations.
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