Do your thing, diabetes!
What do you think Barry was thinking when he nominated her? He could have found legal activist, female, Hispanic AND healthy as a horse riff raff like her by the dozen. Any Rat nominees are rubber stamped regardless by the pubbie squishes in the senate.
Sotomayor may already be experiencing ESRD (End Stage Renal Disease) from her diabetes .. if rumors are to be believed. If so, then significant cognitive decline is not only possible but highly probable. However, I do not see her leaving the bench whilst she still has a pulse ... a la Ruth Ginsberg.