Sonia Sotomayor's Retirement Is A 'Personal Decision': White House
Another issue to be considered by people in making their voting decision this November - will another Supreme Court seat be filled by the next President of the United States?
I thin Justice Sotomayor has done a credible and honest job, though I did not necessarily always agree with her decisions on issues, those decisions were well reasoned and explained.
Were she to retire now and Trump were to be elected, a shift in the Senate to the right could create a 7 to 2 conservative composition of the court.
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T he Biden administration shot back at calls from the left for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to retire , calling it a “personal decision” the White House wasn’t getting involved in.
“When it comes to those types of decisions, those are personal decisions, regardless of if it’s Justice Sotomayor or any other justice on the bench,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a Wednesday press briefing .
“That is for them to make, that is a decision for that justice to make. Again, it’s a personal decision. That is not something that we get involved in, but it is something for, obviously, any justice on the bench. They should be given the space and freedom to make that decision.”
The question follows increasing debate over whether Democrats ought to pressure Sotomayor to retire. The 69-year-old, who has Type 1 diabetes, is the oldest sitting Supreme Court justice appointed by a Democratic president. If the party loses either the White House or the Senate in November, it may lose the ability to choose her replacement for years to come.
With the Supreme Court already dominated by a six-justice conservative majority, a small but vocal group of legal experts are encouraging Sotomayor to step down.
One expert told HuffPost he feared “the Ruth Bader Ginsburg precedent.” Democrats resisted putting pressure on Ginsburg to resign; when the 87-year-old passed away in 2020, former President Donald Trump rushed to appoint Amy Coney Barrett as her successor.
“I have PTSD from 2020,” former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan said on CNN Tuesday, adding, “Republicans are very good at stacking courts, at getting their people on courts ... Democrats aren’t very good at seeing the power of the Supreme Court.”
Democratic senators have said they would not join calls for Sotomayor to retire. But Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) called for her to make her decision carefully.
“I’m very respectful of Justice Sotomayor. I have great admiration for her. But I think she really has to weigh the competing factors,” he told NBC . “We should learn a lesson. And it’s not like there’s any mystery here about what the lesson should be.”
A serious question deserving civil, serious discussion.
That's the goal do the best you can to present your view without attacking or denigrating other people.
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It seems to me that were Justice Sotomayor to retire before the election, she would be rolling the dice that Buden will win in November, that the Democrats will widen their Senate majority and thus a liberal will be appointed to replace her.
In that case the Left wins.
On the other hand if Biden loses and the republicans were to take control of the Senate the chance of another young conservative on the Supreme Court would be real.
Regardless of how the election goes, the confirmation process will be an utter clown show.
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"I have PTSD from 2020,” former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan said on CNN Tuesday, adding, “Republicans are very good at stacking courts, at getting their people on courts ... Democrats aren’t very good at seeing the power of the Supreme Court.”
How can anyone supporting someone entering the Presidency at 82 ask a Justice to retire at 69?
Blatant unapologetic hypocrisy.
Neeedless to say, since I just posted that, Sonia Sotomayor has type 1 diabetes.
It appears that the left is showing as much confidence that Biden will be reelected as the polls are showing.
And, as expected, their supporters are trying to gaslight everybody into believing otherwise.
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