Posted on 02/26/2024 1:21:06 PM PST by Rummyfan
You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who believes that Joe Biden will win the 2024 presidential election. Few expected him to seek reelection in the first place, and polls are rife with indicators that Biden's candidacy is doomed. This puts Democrats in a major pickle because whoever serves as president for the next four years is likely to get at least two Supreme Court nominations — potentially three.
The oldest justices on the court are Clarence Thomas, 74, Samuel Alito, 72, and Sonia Sotomayor, 68, and it's reasonable to expect any, if not all, of them to consider retirement over the next four years. This concern underscores the potential impact of the next presidential term on the composition of the highest court in the land and why Democrats want Sonia Sotomayor to retire while Biden is still in office.
Sotomayor hasn't been on the court very long — Barack Obama nominated her in 2009 — but between the likelihood of Republicans winning back control of the U.S. Senate in November and the presidential election looking extremely favorable to Trump right now, Democrats have been urging her to step down for over a year now.
Recent revelations about her health are giving them added anxiety. According to a recent report from HuffPost, Sotomayor travels with a medic — something no other justice does.
"The revelation comes from newly released U.S. Marshals Service records obtained by the nonpartisan court watchdog Fix the Court, which requested information about security for current and former Supreme Court justices," the outlet reports. "And it amplifies questions that many only whisper about the long-term fitness of the oldest Democratic-appointed justice on the court."
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Why does a wise Latina require a medic on call?
So did Michael Jackson.
Well if she resigns
Mitch will not let anyone Biden nominates get considered
Which is why I still love Mitch even though he is unpopular here.
I hope I’m never stuck in a foxhole with you!
WHO PAYS FOR HER TRAVELING MEDIC????
Are you really that naive?
Additionally, Schumer is Senate Majority Leader
the “wise” LOL latina needs to wait until Trump can replace her :)
Clarence Thomas was born in 1948 so he is older than 74.
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I don’t see much anxiety expressed by right-thinking voters concerning the likelihood that if the coming election is won by the ‘rats, the high Court will slide left and become just another weaponized agency of the administrative leftist Deep State.
LOL-—I hope I’m not stuck in a foxhole either...hahahaha
Travels with a medic.
Hmmmmm......the term ‘it’s medicinal’ comes to mind.
No doubt with help from the RINOs.
She’s said to be diabetic. But she must have a serious problem if she can’t take meds to control diabetes, if she needs a full time medic or caretaker
Or perhaps she has other unreported health problems.
I recall how liberals wanted Ginsburg to retire while Obama was still president. Ruth thought she could outlast Trump so her successor would be chosen by a Democrat president.
Maybe Sonya thinks the same way, that she can outlast Trump if. he’s reelected??
When the Left controlled the court, the Left thought everything
was just as it should be. When the court swung the other way,
the Left went into melt-down. Why the nation was going to
vaporize any second.
I love all this panic in the city. Very entertaining...
Sotomayor is going to be announcing that, after long consideration, she will be retiring to spend more time with her grandchildren. She just doesn’t know it yet.
Anything can happen. But they're in better health than Sotomayor. And all it takes is for Trump to win. Then the GOP needs one more seat in the Senate. Sotomayor should retire after the current SCOTUS term end in June. Then Biden can replace her. They made a mistake with RBG. Which is rare by the Democrats.
A democrat will be the next president-—they will NOT let Trump get in there-—period!
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I too have come to that conclusion after having watched a devastating investigative documentary revealing the Democrat party’s extensive army of fanatic zealots and its technology network. I believe those zealots and that technology will guarantee the counting of whatever fraudulent votes are necessary to insure Trump’s defeat. Look, they already did exactly that in the last election and not a single criminal indictment ended in a prison sentence.
She was a DEI appointment before DEI was mainstream...
Sotomayor is a Type I diabetic.
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