Then The Liberals Came For Sonia Sotomayor
Pressure mounting for her to retire to avoid a Ginsburg scenario. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT): “We should learn a lesson. And it’s not like there’s any mystery here about what the lesson should be. The old saying — graveyards are full of indispensable people, ourselves in this body included.”
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg did not retire while Obama was in office, despite urgent calls for her to do so by liberals so that Obama would nominate her replacment. The fear was that if she hung on too long, there might be a Republican President when she died, allowing a Republican to nominate her successor.
Which is what happened on steroids, because the Republican President was Orange Man Bad.
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Shouldn't she have pulled over? #RuthBaderGinsburg pic.twitter.com/8KlRhKsMvI
— Evi L. Bloggerlady (@MsEBL) September 19, 2020
We covered the reaction at the time.
- Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Passes Away at 87
- Left Threatens (More) Rioting if Trump Tries to Replace RBG Before Election
- VIDEO: Woman Melts Down Upon Hearing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Died
- It’s only a matter of time before liberals blame RBG for not retiring sooner
- Democrat Mobs Gather at Homes of Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham Over RBG Replacement
- Trump Greeted With Boos, Heckling as He Pays Respects to Justice Ginsburg
- DC Hotel ‘Honors’ Ruth Bader Ginsburg With Mural Composed of 20,000 Tampons
Amy Coney Barrett filled the Ginsburg seat. Democrats remain furious over it, it’s the deep pain that will not heal.
So now liberals are targeting Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the self-described ‘Wise Latina’ who is 69 years old. Per the mortality tables, on average, she has 12 more years to live. So it’s unlikely she would die or retire from illness during the next Trump term. But she apparently has some sort of health issues, so much so she reportedly travels with a medic.
So for Democrats, having Sotomayor hang on is a roll of the dice. That’s a gamble they don’t want to take, so there is a growing chorus of liberal/leftist pundits calling for Sotomayor to resign. This Josh Barro column is typical, Sonia Sotomayor Must Retire:
Sonia Sotomayor will turn 70 this June. If she retires this year, Biden will nominate a young1 and reliably liberal judge to replace her. Republicans do not control the Senate floor and cannot force the seat to be held open like they did when Scalia died. Confirmation of the new justice will be a slam dunk, and liberals will have successfully shored up one of their seats on the court — playing the kind of defense that is smart and prudent when your only hope of controlling the court again relies on both the timing of the deaths or retirements of conservative judges, plus not losing your grip on the three seats you already hold.
But if Sotomayor does not retire this year, we don’t know when she will next be able to retire with a likely liberal replacement. It’s possible that Democrats will retain the presidency and the Senate at this year’s elections, in which case the insurance created by a Sotomayor retirement won’t have been necessary. But if Democrats lose the presidency or the Senate this fall (or both) she’ll need to stay on the court until the party once again controls both. That could be just a few years, or it could be a while — for example, Democrats have previously had to wait 14 years from 1995 to 2009, and 12 years from 1981 to 1993.2 In other words, if Sotomayor doesn’t retire this year, she’ll be making a bet that she will remain fit to serve through age 82 or 84 — and she’ll be taking the whole Democratic Party coalition along with her in making that high-stakes bet.
If Democrats lose the bet, the court’s 6-3 conservative majority will turn into a 7-2 majority at some point within the next decade….
The ladies of The View, with an assist from former MSNBC and al-Jazeera host Mehdi Hassan, are on the case:
SHOULD SOTOMAYOR RETIRE TO PROTECT SEAT? As the war over reproductive rights rages on, #TheView co-hosts react to some warning the Supreme Court could lean further right if liberal Justice Sotomayor doesn't step down now over age and health concerns. https://t.co/cVclFZQmjA pic.twitter.com/9CtOLdY9LF
— The View (@TheView) April 4, 2024
So far, leading Democrat politicians are not joining in the demand for retirement, but they are making clear they wouldn’t be upset if it happened:
Democratic senators are not joining calls on the left for liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor to retire. But for the first time, they’re publicly expressing an unease that history could repeat itself after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s refusal to step down in 2014 ended in the Supreme Court lurching sharply to the right….
Democratic senators who serve on the Judiciary Committee remain haunted by the Ginsburg precedent. None are publicly calling on Sotomayor to step down, but they say they hope it doesn’t happen again and create a 7-2 conservative majority.
“I’m very respectful of Justice Sotomayor. I have great admiration for her. But I think she really has to weigh the competing factors,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. “We should learn a lesson. And it’s not like there’s any mystery here about what the lesson should be. The old saying — graveyards are full of indispensable people, ourselves in this body included.”
Democrat Sen. Dick Blumenthal pressures Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to retire: "Graveyards are full of indispensable people" pic.twitter.com/YunNLOV6Nj
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 3, 2024
That is 78-year-old Democratic senator Richard Blumenthal who's trying to nudge 69-year-old Justice Sotomayor into the retirement home. https://t.co/yMaJMCQ6F7
— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) April 4, 2024
If Sotomayor did resign, it will be another identity-driven selection process. Biden will have to nominate another Latino/a, but he may throw in some intersectional identities if he can find the right person.
Hang in there Sonia, we may not agree on everything, but I stand with you against rampant ageism.
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Put a tranny on the bench and immortalize this era’s insanity
A “transitioning,” bisexual, “gender-fluid,” “Latinx”-“Palestinian,” “woman” with a penis, should fit the bill.
Only for the Leftists.
What the hell has your comment have to do with anything in this post? You seem to be fixated on trannies. Not that there is anything wrong with that, of course, but still, maybe you should find another hobby. It’s
Thursday night so go ahead and have another Bud Lite and enjoy your tranny fantasies. Just please, don’t post any pictures here of what you do.
Feeling a little triggered are we sweetie? 😂😂
JR Loooooves him some tranny!
“Not that there’s anything wrong with that.”
Talk about a fixation with chicks with dicks.
Did you read the article and the paragraph about intersectionality? Can you not follow the logical though process between KBJ’s “qualifications” and the Biden admin’s other decisions and statements in regards to the iron grip the alphabet lobby holds over them?
Exactly.
But go easy on her, Junior has trouble thinking logically and she has poor memory. She has apparently forgotten when Joe Biden*, in a drunken stupor of pandering lunacy, promised Jim Clyburn that he would give a SCOTUS seat to a black woman. For this, Clyburn ‘got out the vote’ to help Biden* win the SC primary which pretty much sealed the nomination for him. And then he delivered on his racist promise, selecting a person who is such a blithering moron that she can’t even define what a woman is. Good times.
At the rate things are going right now, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Biden* promise The Squad that he’ll give a SCOTUS seat to a fundamentalist Muslim illegal alien in order to save Michigan.
Kettle meet pot. Ha love a little laugh in the morning. Panties a little tight?
Actually it is the LEFT fixated on trannies, they will throw real women under the bus and mutilate a generation of children in advancing their pet cause.
You noticed that as well, I see.
Perhaps the laddie doth protest too much?
The only thing in your post I agree with is to not post any private pictures.
It’s not liberals coming for her, but illiberals aka progressives.
There are few “liberals” remaining in the “D” party.
Senator Schumer took the opposite tack by encouraging crazies to eliminate two conservative judges.
What he did was much worse than anything allegedly done by the “insurrectionists”.
Proof positive that they think the Orange One is likely to win the election.
…and when he does, all liberals should pass through a heat exchanger to recoup the BTU loss from extremely hot temperatures.
500,000 lbs per hour at 1250 psi will power a turbine to generate electricity AND reduce their carbon footprint.
There are a lot of of disreputable Dems who are very afraid. There are so many that prisons will be overflowing.
This. ^^^.
Dems are so afraid of Trump winning they are proposing bills to repeal the Logan Act ( so they can collude with foreign governments against Trump without fear of prosecution) and are trying to appoint young leftist justices to avoid Trump filling another SCOTUS vacancy. I am literally surprised that there haven’t been more attempts on the lives of Conservative justices. The leftists have proven time after time that sanity and civility are NOT party platforms
Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner! This is proof of how much the Dems are panicking.
Democrats are rather spoiled for choice if they’re looking for a sufficiently clownish replacement but It will prove very challenging to find a candidate to match the special kind of stupid exuded by Sotomayor.
How about Kamala Harris. That might just give FJB the boost he needs and solve 2 problems.
Can you imagine?
“The Supreme Court is very supreme, they are supreme like a pizza in that a supreme pizza has a lot of toppings and the Supreme Court is the top of the justice system. And that is good because diversity in the Supreme Court is like diversity in the type of toppings on a supreme pizza. And good pizza can come from Chicago or New York, just like a good Democrat. A supreme Democrat. And that is why I should make pizza on the Supreme Court.”
You could have a future at SNL, except that it’s SNL.
That sounds much too intelligent for Kamala. Dumb it down a little.
You know, that makes a lot of sense. I’m hungry.
Give her another pizza and she’ll make a Venn diagram
clever, Irishman
Ok, Kamala. Stop your posting under a fake account.
Actually, I do believe that would be too coherent for her.
That actually makes a lot of sense for the Dems. But whom would Biden choose to replace her? Rashida Tlaib might be a good choice, but it would be a sign that they’ve already written off the Jewish and non-woke (asleep? sleeping giant?) vote.
I think that thing governing Michigan is salivating for the job.
She may be salivating, but I think it would be bad for the Dems to choose her. Too pale. If Harris is forced out, she has to be replaced with someone of a similar hue, or too many of the Dem base will stay home. Sorry Gretchen, but not sorry. You dug this hole, now lie in it.
Cruella Whitmer? Doubtful although she is a tyrannical true believer she is the wrong shade of pale. Tlaib is too off putting and Muslim Strident, that weirdo Somali from MN is a fruitcake and AOC is too plain stupid. The mayor of Boston is white but a lesbo so that might work but her constant “I’m too cool for school” smirk is not a thing that appeals to anyone.
Big Mike? She loves the money and hobnobbing with celebrities so no. Oprah….The Oprah….
Omar’s not eligible, so you can rule her out.
The Sharia Law Lobby.
So much for trans rights then…..😎
Tlaib had a undistinguished record as a garden variety lawyer at a non-profit labor law firm between her elected offices. She has never taught law or served as a Magistrate or Judge.
While I wouldn’t put it past the Dems to try to install her she would appear to be singularly unqualified to be a SCOTUS Justice.
There is no requirement to have been a lawyer or judge to serve on SCOTUS
Please keep up. We are not talking right now about SCOTUS. We’re talking about JB4’s idea of appointing Harris to the SCOTUS vacancy, thus solving the problem she poses in her current position. I said I thought that was a good idea for the Dems, but then they’d have to find an acceptable replacement for Harris, with at least some melanin. Hence I proposed Tlaib.
Can u imagine having to listen to her nasal smart a$$ tone during hearings?
Have you seen Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson who in Jer confirmation hearing was unable to answer the question ‘what is a woman’ saying ‘she isn’t a biologist’?
That wasn’t stupid. Politically it was the smart thing for her to say. It did her good on her side while not harming her on ours.
But I got the impression that, despite being a woman, she honestly doesn’t know what a a woman is.
Nah. It was obvious what she was doing.
Meh, IMO her equivocation didn’t increase her odds of confirmation b/c the votes were predetermined. Revealing herself in the confirmation hearing as a stooge who would lie to advance her personal and philosophical agenda in a very public and irrefutable way locked in the public perception of her as an ideologue. That permanently devalued any future opinions and decisions she makes from the bench undermining any sense of obligation to adhere to them. That’s what will occur when if the left manages to put a majority of lefty ideologues on the CT; folks will begin to ignore the rulings. While the Fed Marshals can be sent to some places to enforce some rulings they most definitely can not be everywhere to enforce every ruling; assuming that folks allow the Marshals to enforce the rulings in the first place.
“That wasn’t stupid. Politically it was the smart thing for her to say. It did her good on her side while not harming her on ours.”
Jesus.
All you needed to do, to create the illusion that you’re NOT a complete leftist/Democrat shill was not respond to this.
But you couldn’t do it. You could let an affront to your leftist masters slide–even one as cheap and obvious as this.
What is wrong with you, Azahoth? Why must you incessantly attack Milhouse, lie about him, and just be endlessly horrible? If you have a problem with something Milhouse says (and pretty much all of us do at some point), try a bit of intellect over emotion. You just seem screeching and unpleasant and overly tapped into your feminine side. I can almost see you clutching your skirts as you jig around on a chair to avoid the Milhouse mouse. Grow up. And stop being such a freaking girl.
That was meant to be a down-tick. What an asinine comment.
Go back to Hell, demon.
“It will prove very challenging to find a candidate to match the special kind of stupid exuded by Sotomayor.”
Not with the irrelevant “hiring requirements” specified the way Joe insists on.
Maybe, I’m sure there are other many idiotic options in the judiciary or academia, but the congenital stupidity displayed by Sotomayor is very unique and rare gift, and the search will be hard.
AOC for USSC!
Can I get a gin and tonic with that nomination ?
LI should replace the word “liberals” with “leftists”.
That idea will fall on deaf ears. I’ve been pushing for it for quite some time, along with replacing immigrant with alien.
Compromise then, call them libtards.
Not a word of which I am a fan. Nope. Call them leftists.
Progressive Fascists is more accurate and they hate the truth.
And “trans women” with “man in a dress.”
I don’t believe she has any children. If that’s accurate, then she doesn’t have any grandchildren. I’m not sure a woman who has sacrificed everything – like motherhood – for a career that could propel her to where she is right now is simply going to walk away. I could be wrong. But, I suspect she’ll only leave feet-first.
Nor should she leave because of these agist calls for her to step down. Like it or not she is a SCOTUS Justice which is pretty much the pinnacle of her profession. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that it is the left engaging in agism as usual they show you who they really are, which is usually what they are accusing their enemies of being.
It’s not ageism, it’s realism.
One Justice thrown under the bus is a tragedy; but the triumph of the collective is a statistic.
It has nothing to do with age and everything to do with leftist strategy, assuming they have some greater insight into her health. Were she a perfectly healthy woman of 69, they would have her holding on to her seat like grim death.
Yup. When is Da Nang Dick going to step down, since he’s so concerned about her age while being almost a decade older?
Someone else remembers that, I see.
His age is not an issue. He could be 100 years old and that would be no reason for him to resign. But if Sotomayor cares about the ideals she claims to have, then if Trump wins she should retire immediately so her replacement can be on the bench before Jan-3.
That’s when we’ll find out if any Republicans know how fire alarm pulls work.
Sotomayor isn’t qualified to be a public defender in any jurisdiction in America. That she’s on the highest court in the land is in equal parts an insult and a joke. The problem is that should she retire or be forced out the person nominated to replace her would be by orders of magnitude worse. My personal feeling is that it’s too late in the cycle for her to retire without it becoming a central issue in the presidential campaign.
Merrick Garland will be looking for a permanent gig soon.
Shhhh! Don’t give The Pudding Monster any ideas.
Just whistling through the graveyard here.
Her expected remaining life in not 12 years, but 17.8 years.
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/population/longevity.html
81 was her expected life at birth. However, since she did not die of all the other causes that people who did not make it to age 69 died from, she has extra expected lifetime at age 69. (Imagine she were 80 now …. she would have far less than 100% probability of dying within a year.)
Remember, she’s a Type-1 diabetic. T1D negatively effects lifespan by as much as 15-years for women, even more for men. I haven’t looked at the actuarial tables in a long while. But it’s possible that if she’s not already past her expected life expectancy, she’s nearing it.
If she is being accompanied by a medic, she is not in great shape regardless the cause. Cancers of various types have taken a run at me but not yet succeeded, and I will be 75 before the month is out.
I just had this very mechanism explained to me by a nursing home financial consultant. Apparently, my 105-yo mother is going to live forever.
God bless her!
Regardless of which of the political spectrum you are on, Sotomayor is a justice that is unqualified to sit on any court, much less a court of appeals and definitely not the SC.
Ricci stunt showed she lacked any judicial temparment
Her dissent in Shuette v bamn where her position was that it was unconstitutional for a state to pass a state constitutional amendment requiring compliance with the 14th amendment of the US constitution.
The recent covid case where 100,000 children on ventilators.
What did you expect from an Obama nomination??
Don’t you mean “Obamanation?”
😉
Richard Blumenthal is 78. Sotomayor is probably thinking “after you Richard”.
I see no real complaint with Blumenthal’s tweet. Most any Congress critter or Senator could bite the dust today, and be reliably replaced with someone of the same party tomorrow. This is unlike reliably replacing a SCOTUS justice with someone of the same bent. The stars and planets all have to be in proper alignment for that to happen.
Exactly. It’s just a cheap shot. From the D POV there’s no reason for Blumenthal to retire, because if he dies in office he’s guaranteed to be replaced by another D. So it doesn’t matter how old he is.
Likewise Biden’s age is not a problem because if he’s reelected and dies he’ll be replaced by whomever he chooses to run with this time.
But if Trump wins and Rs win the senate, then if Sotomayor has any loyalty to her principles she will resign immediately, so Biden can replace her in the lame duck session.
“because if he dies in office he’s guaranteed to be replaced by another D.”
All reliably interchangeable, like Agent Smith, or Borg drones.
Notice that there was no analogous Republican demand in 2020 for Justice Thomas to resign before Biden took office. Maybe because the confirmation fight over Amy Cohen-Barrett made Mitch McConnel too tired or Conservatives were afraid to call for the retirement of the lone black justice even though the left hates him and calls him Uncle Tom…. 🤔
There was some, but it was fairly quiet. Most Republicans were confident of Trump winning in 2020, so it wasn’t urgent. And Thomas did look like he had the staying power to last at least another four years if not eight.
That quoted column is fascinating. Read the words.
It’s about the party having control, and having enough control of the admin levers to install a “reliable” judge. It isn’t even about particular policies, or even a world view. It’s all about installing a reliably party aligned judge.
Fascinating.
Too bad Trump did not have that view when making his picks. ACB could yet become a Roberts-style replacement for RBG.
Would you have preferred Biden to make the pick for Supreme Court? That alone made her a good choice.
Second anyone could become anything. I have yet to see a reason not to trust ACB who ruled against Roe V Wade.
Ike came to regret his pick of Earl Warren, calling him the biggest mistake he made as president
Yup. Instead of following the Constitution, the supreme law of the land.
omar for scotus!
until lefty changes the law (or jsut of course..ignores it) and omar cant become potus
they will just install it as scotus
and brothers across the world hailed that moment
the matriarchy is a threat to the republic
Exactly, which is why it makes no sense for her to retire before the election. She should hold her cards until she sees what happens in November. If the worst (from her POV) happens, and Trump wins with a R majority in the senate, then her only options will be to resign from the court or to resign from the left.
If she resigns in November there will be nothing the outgoing senate Rs can do to stop a blitz replacement. By the time they take control on Jan-3 the replacement will be on the bench. An 18-year-old black Hispanic transwoman lesbian.
no, it is not possible
the gop will have senate and probably by a healthy margin
It won’t matter how big their incoming majority will be. By Jan-3 the replacement will be on the bench and there will be nothing they can do about it.
never happen, she’ll leave when she wants
“her only options will be to resign from the court or to resign from the left.”
The latter would require a redpill the size of a football, with an 80% chance of side-effects, which can include head explosion.
My money is on Fani
It’s an election year. I thought the Biden rule was no nominations until after the election?
And if Republicans win the election then Milhouse’s scenario needs to be fought with every trick Republicans can come up with, including accidental fire alarm pulls. If America votes Democrats out then Democrats have no right to pack the court. It’ll be up to Trump and the new Republican Senate to fill any vacancies.
No. There’s no such rule and never was one. Nor did McConnell in 2016 claim there was one. That was badly misreported, as are so many things.
I don’t think there is anything that can fight it.
Certainly not pulling fire alarms in a completely different building, so that there is no reason to even suppose that it might have any effect.
I think that if it is an incoming majority of rep, it means payback with committee assignments
“Nor did McConnell in 2016 claim there was one.”
Who mentioned McConnell? Every Democrat house organ (=99% of the MSM) insistently lied that such a gentlemen’s agreement was traditional and it would be unthinkable for Republicans to violate it.
Of course, when push comes to shove, such ‘gentlemens agreements’ would be ruled white supremist. and ignored.
Not in 2016 they didn’t. They howled to the sky, and they still claim Gorsuch’s seat is stolen and rightfully “belongs” to Garland.
Sotomayor probably wants to avoid partying with the Clintons.
Sotomayor should say she will retire when every politician older than her does. If they are making that argument about her then it applies to everyone else.
I love how those on the left seem to think a SCOTUS seat is somehow “theirs” because of the current occupant. It is 1 of 9 seats with no political leanings. I’m reminded of people referring to “The Kennedy Seat” when The Swimmer died as if it somehow belonged to him and not the people of Massachusetts.
The Supreme Court now seems to have black seats, Hispanic seats, and female seats. Heaven defend any president that DARES replace a set-aside seat with a while male.
No, it doesn’t. There is absolutely no sense in demanding that a D senator from a solid D state, with a D governor and legislature, should retire just because he’s old and might die. So what if he does die? They’ll safely keep the seat, so why should he retire.
Sotomayor is different because if she dies during a Trump term, especially if there’s a R senate, she’ll be replaced by someone whose every ideal is contrary to hers. So it makes sense for her supporters to demand that she do the right thing by them, and retire in time for someone solidly on her side to be appointed. I just don’t think there’s any need for her to make that choice before the election.
Hey Sen Blumenthal, thank you for you faugazi Vietnam Service!
Tough policing never gets credit for SAVING people of color. Thousands walk this Earth shouting defund the police who were saved by such policing, unknown to them.
Same thing here, Leftist dupes will never know how a more conservative court at least slowed down the decline of this country.
Ach, the Supreme Court isn’t political. CJ Roberts said so, so there is no reason for the Lefties to panic about who might replace her during, say, the next administration or two.
Yep, storm in a teacup/.
What if she resigns at the end of this term and then both Virginia Senators die of the coming H5N1 Pandemic before her replacement can be confirmed, and Youngkin appoints 2 GOP Senators? Oops !
That can be arranged…
Sotomayor had better be real careful. I don’t put anything past these unhinged, corrupt bastards. She may find herself, shall we say, irreversibly incapacitated one day right before the next election. Ya know, just in case. This is not to say they don’t all deserve each other.
No hunting trips. With pillows.
No exiting hotel ballrooms through kitchens.
No trips in single engine private aircraft.
Don’t eat the fish.
Recall that the CIA was showing off their ‘heart attack’ gun and few years back, pretty much untraceable. WCGW?
Sotomayor may be a predicatably liberal vote and a justice whose opinions seem more like rants than judicial opinions, but this noise means that the Democratic base wants somone young and with even more radical views
My dad, who dropped bombs on Japan in WWII even through killing others went against every fiber of his being, would have never argued that his personal beliefs should supersede the Constitution, regardless of his political affiliation. Guess they don’t make people like that anymore.
I don’t believe she feels ready to retire, and that’s a huge thing amongst people entering the “retirement age band” demographically. It’s certainly something I have talked with patients about over the years, particularly the anxiety they deal with feeling rejected by their peers and discarded by their own colleagues like they no longer have anything to contribute. It is particularly distressing to women in the professions, largely due to the low numbers of them that have longer tenure in their practices. TBH, it’s not only the Democrat journey into overt ageism, but coming from a man to a woman is veering directly into sexism. Quite a heaping barge load of Democrat hypocrisy going on, and yet I don’t hear anything coming from their usual whinging victim choir. Strange that, no?