If that's the case why isn't Cardozo considered the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice ?
Cardozo was a person of Hispanic descent: his family hadn't lived in Iberia for several generations or continued much of the Iberian culture.
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The question of Cardozo's ethnicity[edit]
Cardozo was the second Jewish person, after Louis Brandeis, to be appointed to the Supreme Court.
Since Cardozo was a member of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community, there has been recent discussion as to whether he should be considered the 'first Hispanic justice,' a notion which is controversial.[24][25][26]
In response to this controversy, Cardozo biographer Kaufman questioned the usage of the term "Hispanic" in the justice's lifetime, stating: "Well, I think he regarded himself as a Sephardic Jew whose ancestors came from the Iberian Peninsula.[27]
It has also been asserted that Cardozo himself "confessed in 1937 that his family preserved neither the Spanish language nor Iberian cultural traditions".[28] Some advocacy groups, such as the National Association of Latino Elected Officials and the Hispanic National Bar Association consider Sonia Sotomayor to be the first Hispanic justice."