Some liberals have begun to publicly voice their opinion that 69-year-old Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor should retire before the election to make room for a younger Democratic appointee.
Allowing President Joe Biden to appoint young liberal judges now will avoid the possibility of a 7-2 conservative majority if former President Donald Trump returns to the White House in 2024. That's what several liberal columnists argued this week. The argument first echoes a similar call from the last call. Yearwhen Politico report Some Democrats close to the Biden administration agree, but were reluctant to publicly suggest that the “first Latinx judge” should resign to save the party's seat.
“You're worried about a complete loss of control of the courts for more than a generation, and yet you can't criticize officials who are putting entire policy projects in jeopardy because they're Hispanic?” Republicans –turned around-Democrat writer Josh Boro I have written Monday. “If this is what the Democrats do, they deserve to lose.” (Related article: 'I live in frustration': Sonia Sotomayor says liberals lose SCOTUS case 'really traumatizing')
Weeks before the 2020 election, when the death of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg created a vacancy on the court, the Senate confirmed President Trump's nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, along party lines. I was able to do that. Ginsburg has refused to retire during Obama's presidency, and many Democrats fear a repeat.
In 2021, the Democratic Party prompted Former Judge Stephen Breyer Retire Biden will therefore be able to “appoint the first Black woman to the Supreme Court.'' Mr. Breyer will retire in June 2022 at age 83, allowing Mr. Biden to appoint Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Brian Fallon is the former executive director of Demand Justice. charging Mr. Breyer, who opposed Mr. Breyer with a petition and a sign truck, told Politico last year that his organization did not have the same in mind for Mr. Sotomayor.
“No judge is above reproach, but as crisis levels go, this doesn't seem as serious as Mr. Breyer, or as pressing as, say, Democrats' continued refusal to eliminate blue tax returns.” ,” Fallon said. The outlet pointed out that “it is fair to ask” about her retirement.
Since then, Sotomayor's concerns have health I made a headline. Mr. Sotomayor traveled twice with medical personnel in 2018, and four trips in 2021 mentioned “medical” equipment and supplies. according to The case is based on U.S. Marshals Service records reported in February by the left-leaning court watchdog group Fix the Court.
“The average tenure was 15 years… [U.S.] He served as a judge for the first 150 years of our republic,” Gabe Ross, executive director of Fix the Court, told HuffPost in February. “Over the past 55 years, that number has doubled his. But the idea that Justice Sotomayor might be considering staying on the court until Naomi Biden becomes a justice is something I don't like. I don't know. [the president’s granddaughter] Him being president is probably not what many people want to see. ”
In comments at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law in January, Sotomayor said he felt “tired” because of the current tough cases, Bloomberg Law reported. report.
Conservatives have won major victories over the past two terms in rejecting affirmative action in higher education and overturning rulings protecting religious freedom, particularly Roe v. Wade. This term, the court is facing controversial issues related to abortion pills, censorship, the Second Amendment, and former President Donald Trump.
“I live in frustration,” Sotomayor said. “Any loss is really traumatizing to my stomach and heart. But I have to get up the next morning and keep fighting.”
As Boro argued, the next chance for Democrats to appoint new judges could be more than one election cycle away. It could be multiple times, which means they're betting on whether she'll be able to maintain her fitness to serve as she ages, either 82 or 84. ”
“If Democrats lose their bet, the court's 6-3 conservative majority will turn into a 7-2 majority at some point within the next decade,” he wrote. “If they win the bet, what do they get? They win the chance to read the dissent written by Sotomayor instead of any other liberal justice. This is clearly an insane deal. ”
This is from @jbarro It certainly seems right to me — we've seen this movie before, and it sucks! https://t.co/ZllmuFwNel
— Matthew Iglesias (@mattyglesias) March 4, 2024
So does New York Magazine columnist Jonathan Chait. I have written On Thursday, Sotomayor, a “69-year-old diabetic former chain smoker,” acknowledged the “partisan nature” of his position and said he would immediately resign “when I can be replaced by a like-minded, righteous person rather than gambling.” argued that it should. (Related article: 'Slow-motion car crash': Democratic 'freakout' culminates in another disastrous poll for Biden)
Paul Campos, a University of Colorado Boulder law professor who advocated Breyer's claims. retirement 2021 and Sotomayor retirement In 2022, repeated On Wednesday, he supported her resignation.
“The continued radicalization of the Republican Party means that even if Joe Biden is re-elected, it would be nearly impossible to fill any vacancies on the court if Republicans had even a two or three-seat majority in the Senate. “That means it's close to possible,” he wrote. .
journalist walt hickey I have written Business Insider said in September that Biden's age should be less of a concern to Democrats than the ages of Justices Elena Kagan and Sotomayor.
“There certainly seems to be a growing chorus of liberal commentators calling for Justice Sotomayor to retire,” Carrie Severino, president of the conservative legal advocacy group JCN, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. She added, “I'm inclined to suspect that the left will try to bully her into retirement, as they did with Judge Breyer.”
Biden has lagged in polls, which consistently show voters think things would have been better under Trump. A recent New York Times/Siena College poll showed Trump with a 5-point lead, with 10% of former Biden voters now supporting him.
true transparent politics average This would give Trump a 1.8% lead in a hypothetical showdown with Biden.
The requesting judge and the Supreme Court's press office did not respond to requests for comment.
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