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A blistering new report is claiming that Sen.Chuck Schumer was literally crying after some political posturing. ... Schumer met with Biden on July 13 (just a little over a week before Biden formally withdrew) and the agenda was simple: convince Joe Biden to withdraw from his re-election bid. “If there were a secret ballot among Democratic senators, Mr. Schumer would tell the president, no more than five would say he should continue running,” ... Biden was apparently kept in the dark about his re-election chances by his own team. ... Schumer couched his pleas with a veiled threat. “If you...

Yet, those who backed Harris are convinced that the woman who became vice president because of her gender and the color of her skin has vast potential, and if being president of the United States is not in the cards, perhaps a seat on the Supreme Court will do. An anti-Trump account on X under the name Protect Kamala Harris floated a proposal that would result in the failed Democratic nominee sitting on the nation’s highest court. “Want to blow Republicans’ minds? Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor retires. President Biden appoints Kamala Harris to Sotomayor’s vacancy with a lame duck...

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...

Having spectacularly failed to get one woman elected to a top job, the Democratic Party is at odds over whether to push another woman out. ===================================================================== The Democratic Party is secretly fighting over whether to try and force out Justice Sonia Sotomayor to avoid the specter of Donald Trump sending the U.S. Supreme Court further to the right. Senators are reportedly at odds over whether to put pressure on Sotomayor—the first Latina justice—to step down while Democrats still have the power to usher in her replacement. Although she is only 70, Sotomayor suffers from Type 1 diabetes and is the...

no senator appears to be willing to be the first person who publicly calls for Sotomayor to step down. However, Democrats have discussed possible replacements, with D.C. Circuit Judge J. Michelle Childs being mentioned. Childs was vetted and even received backing by a few GOP senators such as Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.