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Dems at War Over Secret SCOTUS Plot to Oust Sotomayor
Daily Beast ^ | November 08, 2024 | David Gardner

Posted on 11/08/2024 9:54:17 AM PST by Red Badger

Having spectacularly failed to get one woman elected to a top job, the Democratic Party is at odds over whether to push another woman out.

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The Democratic Party is secretly fighting over whether to try and force out Justice Sonia Sotomayor to avoid the specter of Donald Trump sending the U.S. Supreme Court further to the right.

Senators are reportedly at odds over whether to put pressure on Sotomayor—the first Latina justice—to step down while Democrats still have the power to usher in her replacement.

Although she is only 70, Sotomayor suffers from Type 1 diabetes and is the oldest of the three remaining Democratic Party-appointed justices.

There is no suggestion that she has any intention of walking off into the sunset of her own volition.

But party leaders are terrified of a repeat of the 2020 debacle when Ruth Bader Ginsburg died during the first Trump presidency after resisting overtures to step down when an Obama administration could offer a like-for-like ideological replacement. Instead, Trump’s choice of Seventh Circuit Judge Amy Coney Barrett sent the court lurching further to the right.

With just two months until the Democratic majority in the Senate gives way to the Republicans, it would be a tall order—and some say impossible—for Sotomayor’s successor to be nominated and confirmed.

But, according to Politico’s Playbook, “it’s a conversation members of the Senate are actively involved in.”

The chief obstacles are the timeline and the lack of senators prepared to put their heads above the parapet and suggest Sotomayor should step aside for the sake of the movement.

“What happens if she resigns and the nominee to replace her isn’t confirmed and the next president fills the vacancy?” an unnamed Democratic senator told Playbook.

“We would have to have assurances from any shaky senator that they would back a nominee in the lame duck, because what do you do if she announces she’s going to step down and then [independent West Virginia Sen. Joe] Manchin doesn’t support her and then [Republican Sens.] Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski back off and say they’re not going to support a new nominee? Do you just rescind that letter?” asked a senior Democrat.

Playbook reported that a possible replacement has been earmarked in Washington D.C. Circuit Judge J. Michelle Childs, who has already been vetted and is seen as a moderate by some Republican senators, offering her a better chance of confirmation.

Attempts among party activists last year to initiate the move were met, said Playbook, by accusations of “ableism” and “racism.”

“How dare they suggest pushing the first Latina justice—a solid progressive vote—off the bench?” was the response, said the report.

“I wish it were different, but I think that Democrats need to do a better job of holding on to the fear that they now feel the next time they are in a position of power, because we can’t shut down those conversations,” Molly Coleman, executive director of the People’s Parity Project, told Playbook. “Democrats are not going to win elections forever. They’re not going to be able to nominate Supreme Court justices indefinitely. They need to act when they have power.”


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To: CommerceComet

There isn’t enough time left.............


41 posted on 11/08/2024 10:33:59 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: rdcbn1

There is no such thing now days as a moderate democrat. On important issues, they are all 100% in lock step with the radical left!


42 posted on 11/08/2024 10:40:15 AM PST by volare737 (Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated.)
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To: Red Badger
Aaah to be 70 again.
43 posted on 11/08/2024 10:44:27 AM PST by oldbrowser ( Democracy = "of the people, for the people, by the people")
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To: Red Badger
Despite having Type I, she's only 70 and likely would make it to 2028.

The one who is going to be leaving soon is Thomas.

44 posted on 11/08/2024 10:46:45 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin ( )
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To: Red Badger
"Senators are reportedly at odds over whether to put pressure on Sotomayor—the first Latina justice—to step down while Democrats still have the power to usher in her replacement."

Hopefully their next selection will be able to tell the difference between a man and a woman, or maybe they already have some other species in mind.
45 posted on 11/08/2024 10:47:58 AM PST by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: lodi90

The department of cheating is at it again.


46 posted on 11/08/2024 10:48:04 AM PST by abbastanza (Oh boy. Can’t wait. Go nuts kids)
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To: Red Badger

“the first Latina justice”

Nobody cares about this crap.


47 posted on 11/08/2024 10:49:51 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: bk1000

Of course in their world, only Liberal Latinas count.


48 posted on 11/08/2024 10:50:48 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

If the Dems do that then I will favor adding four more Justices to the bench while Trump is President.


49 posted on 11/08/2024 10:53:16 AM PST by Michael.SF. (Pray for Biden: Psalms 109: 8)
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To: Red Badger
They've tried mass shootings . . . . THEY didn't work.

They've tried school shootings . . . . THEY'VE not worked.

They've tried shooting the campaigning President . . . . THAT didn't work.

Maybe if they try to eat the head of their judicial system . . . ?



50 posted on 11/08/2024 10:54:22 AM PST by knarf (Candice Owens, Personmal advisor)
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To: Red Badger

One month here.


51 posted on 11/08/2024 10:55:13 AM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: Red Badger

They can try this but Mitch McConnell controlls the Senate and will not bring their new candidate up for a vote. That is why Merrick Garland is not on the SC.


52 posted on 11/08/2024 10:57:22 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie ( @whoisourPresident)
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To: Red Badger

Why don’t we push all three of the Democrat women out?

Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson are a profound embarrassment to SCOTUS!


53 posted on 11/08/2024 11:00:53 AM PST by Taxman (MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! SUPPORT THE FAIRTAX!)
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To: Red Badger

AFTER DJT becomes POTUS 47, of course!


54 posted on 11/08/2024 11:02:10 AM PST by Taxman (MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! SUPPORT THE FAIRTAX!)
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To: virgil
If he replaces Thomas, however, I would hope it would be someone as strong as him.

Good luck with that :( Even the conservative judges nowadays are diluted compared to justices like Thomas and Scalia.

55 posted on 11/08/2024 11:04:54 AM PST by Buttons12 (Don't just gripe. Retire now. Cut off their allowance. )
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To: rdcbn1

Like almost all Supreme Court Justices, Sotomayor will leave the bench when she dies. Very few exceptions; probably two in the last 40 years.


56 posted on 11/08/2024 11:06:13 AM PST by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

> They can try this but Mitch McConnell controls the Senate <

That was back then. Chuck Schumer controls the Senate now. But you’re still right about McConnell. He knows enough tricks to run out the clock.


57 posted on 11/08/2024 11:12:38 AM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: chajin

70 is the new 50 :-)


58 posted on 11/08/2024 11:15:24 AM PST by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch (Abortion is just a new spin on human sacrifice by worshipers of self and selfishness. )
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To: Red Badger

o chance of this happening. Can’t begin the replacement until she resigns and that’s too risky of she resigns and they can’t get a new nominee thru this year.


59 posted on 11/08/2024 11:15:40 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: NonValueAdded

Yes, but Communists either say it’s a living, breathing document subject to interpretation by today’s standards or it’s a racist document created by white men. They never argue, that if you believe those things, change it through the legislative process, hence, activist judges.


60 posted on 11/08/2024 11:19:22 AM PST by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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