Posted on 11/07/2024 7:30:03 PM PST by simpson96
Current Time 0:02 / Duration 1:24 Newsweek Supreme Court Justice's Security Shooting Raises Eyebrows 0 View on Watch View on Watch Following President-elect Donald Trump's victory, calls have resurfaced for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to retire to prevent Trump from potentially filling another court vacancy.
Sotomayor, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009, is the first Latina and the third woman to serve on the Supreme Court. At 70, she is the oldest Democrat-appointed justice on the Court which has a 6-3 conservative supermajority.
In light of Trump winning the 2024 presidential election over Vice President Kamala Harris, calls for Sotomayor to retire so that President Joe Biden, with support from a Democrat-majority Senate, would have enough time to appoint a new justice have recirculated on social media.
Newsweek reached out to the Supreme Court's public information office via an online form for comment on Thursday.
On election night, Miranda Yaver, an assistant professor of health policy and management at the University of Pittsburgh, posted on X, formerly Twitter, "Sotomayor should retire tomorrow and let the lame duck Senate confirm her replacement."
A lame-duck session refers to the final months of a president's term after the presidential successor is elected in November but before a new Congress convenes in early January. Biden leaves office on January 20, giving the administration just over two months to nominate and confirm a justice.
David Dayen, editor of The American Prospect echoed the same sentiments, writing on Wednesday, "This would probably be a good day for Sotomayor to retire."
The renewed push stems from concerns that Trump, elected as the next U.S. president on Wednesday, along with the newly Republican-majority Senate, could appoint a conservative-leaning justice, further tipping the Court to the right.
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They don’t have the votes to pull it off.
It’s funny, though, that Democrats want the Wise Latina Woman to get out of the way so they can replace her with someone maybe basically competent.
The leftists will stomp over anyone anytime for any reason.
They have zero humanity.
I would think that there might not be a a quorum if her replacement came up for vote before Jan 21.
Well, at least they are only calling on her to retire, instead of hoping that she shuffles off this mortal coil before January 20.
Hopefully she’ll retire on January 21st.
Save the Wide Latina!
Instead... She’ll be just like her hero RGB and wait around for Trump to appoint her successor... LOL
Pardon.. RBG... LOL
No filibuster for judicial nominations. They could do it.
And they can’t kill the filibuster with a R majority coming in January.
Wide Latina
Isn’t that Assuming that Joe Manchin or Kristen Sonoma or whatever the hell her name is, would go along with it?
“Well, at least they are only calling on her to retire, instead of hoping that she shuffles off this mortal coil before January 20”
Hillary enters chat
Merrick Garland?
No, they don’t have the votes to pull it off. Even if they were crazy enough to attempt it, it would be political suicide after this trouncing.
Not sure. The dems are saying they’ll support the smooth transition which means vetting Trump’s major cabinet appointments. Stopping that to appoint a new SCOTUS Justice could be a bridge too far by Jan 3.
Garland is finished in Dem politics. There’s a lot of columns from left-wing opinion makers angry at him for not moving faster against Trump during Biden’s term.
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