Posted on 11/08/2024 4:15:38 PM PST by bimboeruption
As the Democratic Party handles the fallout from their devastating election defeat this week, some have come up with an unlikely plan to oust liberal Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor.
In just under two months, Republicans will control the U.S. Senate with a likely majority of at least 53 seats. Once Trump takes office, they will have free reign to start appointing conservative judicial nominees, shaping federal courts for generations to come.
According to Politico’s Playbook, Democratic leaders are “agonizing” over whether to try and force Sotomayor out of the door before Trump takes office in January.
The 70-year-old justice is known to suffer from diabetes and other health issues, creating the possibility that her seat may become open during Trump’s presidency.
The report explains:
For Democrats, this is a hair-on-fire moment. And though the discourse in the media is presently dominated by recriminations about how this all happened, another arguably more urgent conversation is blowing up largely outside of public view: whether to push for 70-year-old Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step down while Dems still have the power to approve her replacement.
This isn’t simply some flight of fancy happening among progressive activists online. It’s a conversation members of the Senate are actively engaged in.
One senator Playbook spoke with last night told us that the topic has come up repeatedly this week in talks with their colleagues. Inevitably, those conversations end up with a recognition of two realities: It’d be a risky play with the party already trying to figure out how to handle a crowded lame-duck session, and no senator seems to be offering to be the person to put his or her neck on their line publicly (or even privately) by pushing for Sotomayor to step aside.
The report adds that these shady figures have already identified a replacement: D.C. Circuit Judge J. Michelle Childs, who was previously on Joe Biden’s SCOTUS short list:
It’s obvious why: Childs has already been vetted, is seen as moderate and even received backing by conservative senators like Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) last go round. (Though you can be damn sure that Republicans would do everything imaginable to stop a lame-duck confirmation.)
But inevitably, this chatter runs into major logistical concerns. If Sotomayor were to resign, “she can sort of resign conditionally on someonebeing appointed to replace her,” the Democratic senator told Playbook.
“But she can’t resign conditioned on a specific person. What happens if she resigns and the nominee to replace her isn’t confirmed and the next president fills the vacancy?”
Such reports underline the current state of overwhelming panic across the Democratic Party, who are still reeling from Donald Trump’s landslide victory while also planning out their resistance to his agenda.
During his first term in office, Trump successfully confirmed three traditionalist Supreme Court justices, all of whom have acted as a guardrail against the excesses of the Biden regime.
There is also speculation that Trump or those close to him may urge Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, who are aged 76 and 74 respectively, to retire within the next few years in order to shore up a conservative majority for a generation. Whether this happens still remains to be seen.
Are there any trans judges they can nominate?
They’re close to being able to cure diabetes, maybe.
Don’t get snookered like Biden was.
Kamala isn’t Hispanic.
Well I mean I suppose they can ask nicely; I suppose. But as they should know well enough after Ruth Bader Ginsburg, they can’t “force” a Supreme Court Justice to do much of anything.
Why should Sotomayer resign. The article does not say so. I don't see anything she's done except to be the ultra liberal justice that the Democrats wanted.
Could it be that they want to replace her because she is liberal with a justice that is "Woke"?
They have about a total of four weeks to get the job done. I can’t see it happening.
Maybe Sotomayor can side with us for voting on some of the incoming cases related to 2A since her own party wants to stab her in the back so bad.
Libtard cope. Not gonna happen.
Are they going to use the nuclear option? If she resigns thr Republicans csn block a vote pretty easily leaving an empty seat for Trump.
Nah- the wise Fatina is here to stay.
What??!? Force the Wise Latinx out??? How COULD they? Say it ain’t so!
(not ‘til Jan. 20 anyway)
But anyway... I don’t think President Crapferbrains could swing an ouster, a nomination, senate hearings, and a vote before inauguration day.
Holy Moley! Their desired replacement, J Michelle Childs, doesn’t look likely to outlive anyone! She’s a heart attack waiting to happen!
Why? Is she going to die next year?
How many Justices did the Dems want on the court?
Good time for Trump to troll them with their own ideas while they’re discussing a Justice..
Maybe he can get 9+ Justices on the court in his 8 years..
:)
If she croaks in the next 4 years PDJT appoints the next SC judge.
Perfect Solution: Let them force her out. Drag on the hearings until sometime after January 3, 2025.
After all that worked so well with the Biden force out
Michelle Obama?
The funny thing is that unless Trump has changed his Tune then they could not find a better advocate for putting a liberal on the USSC. ACB was a dream DEI pick for them. No this does not mean that I am anti-Trump. Not at all. But I believe in calling things as I see them.
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