She’s a type 1 diabetic, she’s already over the average life expectancy for someone who suffers from it.... That was about the only good think about this appointment, is that this activist judge’s shelf life would not be too long.
Honestly, I expect the dems to do everything in their power to get her to retire soon, so they can use her replacement as a battle cry to rally their non motivated troops this fall.
I expect you will be hearing this drum beat getting louder and louder in the coming months... as they know Biden is heading into a buzz saw, and need ANYTHING to try to get their supporters motivated.
She retires, they will nominate some radical activist, and with control of the Senate be able to push them through, but will make sure it’s as big and nasty a fight as possible even though they can just make it happen, as close to the election as possible, to get the base motivated.
If I had to venture a guess, I’d say somewhere around Sept/Oct will be when the Dems want the appearance of a fight, so, plan accordingly.
It’s probably too late for her to retire. Remember how Senate Republicans sat on the Garland appointment 293 days.
So in reality, she SHOULD retire. Trump will appoint the next justice.
An October surprise 😲
Sotomayor had been traveling with a medic recently