Posted on 03/28/2024 6:10:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
'I would love to trade her for a 50-year-old justice...'
Leftists recently started pushing the idea that one of the Supreme Court justices, Sonia Sotomayor, should resign, so that, in case of her death, Donald Trump would not be able to appoint another conservative justice.
Paul Campos, a law professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, was one of the people who expressed this idea after remembering how Amy Coney Barrett took the place of Ruth Bader Ginsburg after her death, which resulted in the 6-3 conservative majority that then took less than two years to fully overturn Roe v. Wade.
“Sotomayor has been an outstanding justice. But the Ruth Bader Ginsburg precedent ought to be extremely sobering… The cost of her failing to be replaced by a Democratic president with a Democratic Senate would be catastrophic,” he said.
Lucas Powe Jr., a Supreme Court historian at the University of Texas at Austin, agreed with Campos.
“I would love to see Sotomayor retire. I would love to trade her for a 50-year-old justice,” he said.
However, leftists who are brainwashing the American youth with Marxist ideas were not the only ones who started saying that Sotomayor should resign. Leftist journalists at the Atlantic and Vox started pushing the same message as well.
People at the Huffington Post also wrote an article regarding the topic, in which the leftist publication noted that Sotomayor had problems with her health, obviously implying that she should leave her position.
However, there is no logical reason for Sotomayor to leave her position, considering that a 69-year-old justice is still considered young because the average retirement age for recent Supreme Court justices is in the 80s.
The fact that leftists want to replace Sotomayor becomes even more evident after looking at other Supreme Court justices — Clarence Thomas, 75, and Samuel Alito, who is about to turn 74. Despite them being older than Sotomayor, they don’t face the same political pressure to retire under Joe Biden.
The baby killer has a bad case of the beetus
LOL RATs always do this to their lil rotten SCOTUS appointees.
They are such greedy hateful scum.
1) I think she should step down.
2) I think the Senate should wait until 2025 to fill her post.
She’s a wise Latina. I trust her to make the wise decision and stay.
She should start taking Ozempic and get Covid vaccine boosters.
I can see the movie “Sotomeyer” now.
“Sotomayor has been an outstanding justice. But the Ruth Bader Ginsburg precedent ought to be extremely sobering… The cost of her failing to be replaced by a Democratic president with a Democratic Senate would be catastrophic,”
The “Wise Latina” has been outstanding? Please…
And as far as Ruth Buzzy Ginsburg goes, she could have done the same thing, but no, she was saving her seat to be filled by the first female president, HRC. It would have been historic. (LOL)
Catastrophic. The RINOs woun’t confirm someone unless they are like Trojan horse Roberts or ACB.
no, please leave the “wise” LMAO latinx alone!
we need 7-2 majority!
:)
This is merely where they want to dump Harris.
She’s a big problem for them at the moment. It would be very convenient, if the Latin nutjob stepped down, Garland would have himself, or Harris in there in a week.
If she does retire, the seat has to be filled by another Hispanic.
There's an obvious replacement: Leonel Moreno, the Venezuelan "influencer" who's telling immigrants how to "squat" and get away with it.
so that, in case of her death, nice to know they care
Well, after all, she’s studied the maps! /s
WHAM! DIABEETUS!
no.....you don’t want ties...
Wise Latina , do not accept any invites to any ranches .
Amazing that these people put their name to their stupid opinions.
“Law professor.” “Supreme Court historian.”
*chuckle*
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