Is Sotomayor's Time on the Supreme Court Nearing an End?

PJ Media ^ | 26 Feb 2024 | Matt Margolis

[JayGalt]

Let’s hope her ego stands in the way of pragmatism.

[G Larry]

Court calendar doesn't end til June 30th and there are too many high profile cases to be decided for her to retire before then.

Imagine trying to get a replacement seated between July and November.....

The real question is whether "they" will let Trump assume office in January after he wins.

[libertylover]

You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who believes that Joe Biden will win the 2024 presidential election.

The writer has underestimated the power of human stupidity and the power of Democrats to cheat (again).

[Gaffer]

That was my thought, too. There ONLY because she’s a minority.

[Verginius Rufus]

If the Democrats win and Sotomayor retires, the liberal/conservative balance will remain the same. Of course there is no guarantee for anyone how much longer he or she will live so there is a danger that one of the conservatives might not survive until the next Republican President is elected (assuming that one will be at some point in the future). Clarence Thomas was born June 23, 1948, so he is currently 75. At the time of the 2028 election he will be 80.

[maro]

Can you imagine the confirmation hearings? I don’t see why Sotomayor would play ball on this. Nothing in it for her.

[PGR88]

Hold on until Jan 2025, my wise Latina female

[Still Thinking]

And Thomas is especially difficult to replace. Scalia would sometimes pen opinions along the lines of “but what if cops don’t like it”, where Thomas is reliably “screw that, we’re not here to ensure the convenience of the government and the precedent on this is wrong”.

[Still Thinking]

Kamala could give her Willie Brown.

[Still Thinking]

The real question is whether "they" will let Trump assume office in January after he wins.

Exactly. DJT will probably get 95MM votes this time, to the Dems 115MM. We got a serious wake-up in 2020 how few large blue cities in swing states (and even states that are in reality conservative) they need for to steal the presidency. Is there some reason to think that can be stopped this time??

[marktwain]

There are some up and comers in all the circuits who are willing to uphold the Constitution.

Just about any of the many Second Amendment case shows who they are.

I would love for Judge Roger Benitez of the Ninth Circuit to be on the Supreme Court, but he is only four years younger than Clarence Thomas.

[Still Thinking]

Yes, everything I’ve heard from him has been good.

[Reily]

If you mean Joe Machin he’s not a lawyer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Manchin

[OKSooner]

Hopefully not just yet...

[marktwain]

Is there some reason to think that can be stopped this time??

There are several reasons.

1. They require large numbers of operatives to do it. Biden is not nearly as popular as President as he was when the election was all about "get rid of Trump".

2. Many of their teqniques are known and can be guarded against to various degrees.

3. No more Covid "emergencies" to allow the Democrats to flagrantly violate the rules and get away with it.

4. The "margin of cheat" will need to be much higher this time.

In summation, the calculus on the ground has changed. I do not know if they can be stopped, or not, but there is a serious possibility they can.

The left is uncertain they can win. It is why they are doing all this lawfare against Trump.

[Dr. Franklin]

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.

I intensely disliked Ginsburg. She was a corporatist feminist, a real feminazi. She really cared more about women being in power than law. In short, she wanted to change the law to empower women at the expense of traditional nuclear families, societal stability, etc. That stated, I might feel the same way to a point. Some SCOTUS justices are worse than the others, and Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson top the list, BUT I am not really thrilled with any of them. No one there truly votes like I would exactly. Still, I would hope I had the good sense to step down when my replacement wouldn't be someone whose opinions were opposite of mine in every way. Fewer justices retire than carried out of the court and buried.

I hate the fact that SCOTUS doesn't hear enough cases. I don't think that SCOTUS should hear cases to "set policy" and then ignore it when the lower courts "misapply' the law and misstate the evidence to clear their dockets. That's what we have now. Congress, as the people's elected representatives, should be setting the policies, not the courts. SCOTUS was originally sold as the court that would reign in renege federal judges, and plainly it does not. In fact, it does nothing about all of the senile federal judges whom they praise for clearing the dockets, even when they usually do it wrong. The lower courts know they can evade review by SCOTUS in certain ways, and SCOTUS lets them do it.

[MinorityRepublican]

Biden is not nearly as popular as President as he was when the election was all about "get rid of Trump".

Biden isn't popular. But you could say the same about Trump.

[mikelets456]

I honestly believe they want Trump up by 60 points in the polls so they can gloat that much more when Bidet wins. An “in your face there’s nothing you can do about it” moment for them!

[napscoordinator]

Renquist and Scalia died which still in their positions. So your post is 100 percent false.

[wildcard_redneck]

I said ‘leftists’ and made no mention of others.