Posted on 02/26/2024 1:21:06 PM PST by Rummyfan
You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who believes that Joe Biden will win the 2024 presidential election. Few expected him to seek reelection in the first place, and polls are rife with indicators that Biden's candidacy is doomed. This puts Democrats in a major pickle because whoever serves as president for the next four years is likely to get at least two Supreme Court nominations — potentially three.
The oldest justices on the court are Clarence Thomas, 74, Samuel Alito, 72, and Sonia Sotomayor, 68, and it's reasonable to expect any, if not all, of them to consider retirement over the next four years. This concern underscores the potential impact of the next presidential term on the composition of the highest court in the land and why Democrats want Sonia Sotomayor to retire while Biden is still in office.
Sotomayor hasn't been on the court very long — Barack Obama nominated her in 2009 — but between the likelihood of Republicans winning back control of the U.S. Senate in November and the presidential election looking extremely favorable to Trump right now, Democrats have been urging her to step down for over a year now.
Recent revelations about her health are giving them added anxiety. According to a recent report from HuffPost, Sotomayor travels with a medic — something no other justice does.
"The revelation comes from newly released U.S. Marshals Service records obtained by the nonpartisan court watchdog Fix the Court, which requested information about security for current and former Supreme Court justices," the outlet reports. "And it amplifies questions that many only whisper about the long-term fitness of the oldest Democratic-appointed justice on the court."
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Leftists never retire, they squat in office until death. The “wise Latinx” enjoys the spotlight and she isn’t going anywhere voluntarily.
She wasn’t fit when she was nominated.
‘Wise Latina’ indeed. /eyeroll
As I recall Rehnquist died while still serving rather than retire. Same with RBG.
Souter’s replacement to be replaced?
I’d love to see Souter’s seat FINALLY filled with a conservative (Souter replaced Brennan).
I think so. She’s not as dumb as Ruth. GOP has ‘only’ 49 senate seats. Would Mancin join to put it off? I think he’s not an on-the-way-out back stabber like we have in our party.
Yeah, being a Supreme Court is a great job. She is not quitting it.
Leftists have to be dragged from power. How sweet would it be to have Trump pick her replacement when she goes out feet first like RBG?
We need the Wide Latina to hang in there for another 9-10 months. All of them need to hang on for 9-10 months. Then they can retire.
Clarence Thomas was born in 1948 so he is older than 74.
I don’t want that blooming idiot to retire until 2025 when Trump is in office.
We should be worried that Thomas and Alito, the two most conservative justices on the court, are also the two oldest justices on the court. The 2024 election could not have higher stakes.
This is her religion. There is nothing else.
The Democrats could promise Kamala Sotomayor’s seat on the SC in return for being dropped from the ticket (assuming they win in November)...all they have to do is find a way to force Sotomayor to agree.
RGB was being interviewed and was asked, “Will you retire?” She acted incensed, retorting, “And just who do you think can do my job?” It was a stunning answer and laid out her view that she was better than anyone could be and unreplaceable. In my long working career, it was my experience that the managers who saw themselves in this light were horrible at their job. And they seemed to be the only ones who didn’t know how bad they were.
Isn’t she the racist pig who openly averred that her ethnicity was a qualification for SCOTUS?
A democrat will be the next president-—they will NOT let Trump get in there-—period!
Plus she’s banking
RGB also said in an interview that she wouldn’t be satisfied with “women’s rights” until the entire Supreme Court was filled with women.
That would drive the final stake through this nation’s heart.
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