Posted on 02/03/2024 2:22:19 AM PST by Libloather
Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is under pressure from fellow liberals to retire amid growing fears she might enable a Republican president to appoint a conservative successor.
CNN commentator Josh Barrow became the latest to demand the 69-year-old step down lest she follow in the footsteps liberal Ruth Bader Ginsburg who died while serving at 87 in 2020.
That death allowed then-president Donald Trump to cement the court's conservative majority with the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett, and some liberals are determined it will not happen again.
'I'm not saying I think Justice Sotomayor is on death's door,' Barrow conceded to his fellow panelists on CNN This Morning.
'But I think it's important, given it's a lifetime appointment, to take a very long-time horizon view on this.
'It seems like that – it would be the right time strategically for her to step down in favor of somebody younger if she's very concerned about the political balance on the court.'
The sitting president is entitled under the constitution to appoint justices to the Supreme Court, subject to Senate approval, and Trump appointed three during his four years in office.
Liberal campaigners mobilized against Justice Stephen Breyer who retired at 83 in 2022, allowing President Biden to appoint Ketanji Brown Jackson to the bench.
The court's 6-3 conservative majority has steamrolled a raft of landmark judgements including the overturning of Roe V Wade and the outlawing of positive discrimination at public institutions.
And the pressure on Sotomayor is growing after she made gloomy remarks about her role in a speech to University of California Law School students this week.
'I live in frustration,' she admitted, 'and every loss truly traumatizes me in my stomach and in my heart.
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Goes without saying.
My brother-in-law died at age 52. Overweight, diabetic, let pituitary growth metastasize. Finally got done in by heart attack. He was my sensei, and was no match for himself.
It’s funny that the media used to portray the Federalist Society as extreme right wing.
From your lips to GOD’s EARS!!!
It’s a game they play over and over and over again—and our team too often falls for it.
My sincere condolences on your loss.
That was 11 years ago. But if she’s 69, she could go. And if the spooks do her in, they’d have plausible deniability.
Sonia’s getting a taste of “liberal loyalty”.
She was never anything but a tool to them.
Sorry but type 1 diabetes still takes its toll over a lifetime. Life expectancy today is still 7 years shorter than average.. Sotomayor is pushing the limit as it is. It is indeed a risk,, she may live another 5 years without issue. Or be dead..
With double digit A1C, she's more like 89.
“It will be very hard to find a Thomas/Alito rock ribbed strict constructionists replacement.”
Indeed.
Just look at that Robert’s handmaiden-like ACB sock puppet....
He wanted Miers instead of Alito!
U R probably right. But if Trump gets in, I would like to see Justice Thomas call it a career. He is very old and Trump could replace him and not a damned liberal commie dimocommie!!!
How racist and sexist of them.
“the outlawing of positive discrimination”
The liberal way, if the first thing you rename a negative concept doesn’t work, just rename it. They don’t care about the concept is wrong
I would suggest Judge Roger Benitez but I would hate to see him leave our California Court system.
Not familiar with him, but I take it he has a good record?
An outstanding record on Second Amendment issues!
And that’s about all he’s been dealing with the last few years.
Heh. The way R’s pick SCOTUS judges, libs should be happy when the Rs get another pick.
Maybe because she is fat and ugly and not in good health?
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