Dems at War Over Secret SCOTUS Plot to Oust Sotomayor

[Polybius]

Source: Yahoo! News

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 oldest of the three remaining Democratic Party-appointed justices.

There is no suggestion that she has any intention of walking off into the sunset of her own volition.

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[Meadowoak]

1. No, that will never happen in time, and that would

Just be a vacancy for Trump to fill. No!

[Jose Garcia]

10. Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed 39 days after Ruth Bader Ginsburg died

[Meadowoak]

12. different rules for MAGA.

[Jose Garcia]

14. It could be done if Sotomayor wanted to do it

Schumer has gotten almost as many of Biden's judicial appointees confirmed as McConnel did for Trump.

[Mike_in_LA]

2. It ain't fair

But we gotta put someone in who is 20+ years younger than her.

[jimfields33]

3. Oh my gosh. Wow! Great way to get Hispanics back in the fold.

She’s 70 and seems healthy. If she were 85 then ok. But this is not a great idea.

[Fiendish Thingy]

9. Sotomayor's health is actually quite fragile

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sonia-sotomayor-medic-retirement_n_65d8ec05e4b0cc1f2f7bab77

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/paramedics-treat-sotomayor-at-her-home-and-clear-her-to-go-to-work/2018/01/19/697ddf76-fd4a-11e7-ad8c-ecbb62019393_story.html

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/19/sonia-sotomayor-health-scare-349971

https://www.contemporarypediatrics.com/view/us-supreme-court-justice-sonia-sotomayor-recounts-her-lifelong-experiences-managing-type-1-diabetes

[PhilosopherKing]

15. Replace her with a Latino

[Autumn]

4. No one can make her step down so it seems to me that's an unnecessary war to fight

She can say no and the Dems can smile and say okay.

[Kid Berwyn]

5. Great. Then Trump will appoint her replacement.

No one delays justice like Trump and SCrOTUS.

[dweller]

6. Dems in disarray !!1!

✌🏻

[yardwork]

7. Bingo. This is just more propaganda.

[Festivito]

16. Could Sotomayor step down, OR, Dems in disarray!!!1! WHICH TITLE TO USE???

The one that makes the owner want to give me a promotion and raise, or, the other to that.

[Fiendish Thingy]

8. Don't forget that any vacancy in the lame duck period could only be filled with the approval of...

Manchin and Sinema.

[TomSlick]

11. Which means it won't happen.

Justice Sotomayor needs to stay on the job.

[Fiendish Thingy]

13. And stay alive as long as possible. Nt

[TomSlick]

21. May it please God.

[Voltaire2]

18. One or both would be happy to engage in one more rat fuck. Nt.

[jaxexpat]

17. This shouldn't be a discussion. If she cares about justice she will resign immediately

[Polybius]

20. We've only got 51 Senators

Two might say "not enough time."

[jaxexpat]

24. You're right, of course, we haven't shot all our feet yet.

[Calista241]

19. I feel like Trump is going to have 3 more appointments.

Alito, Thomas and Sotomayor. God help us.

[Prairie Gates]

22. ...

[iemanja]

23. No, she's a good justice and needs to stay.

Democrats need to stop eating their own.

[marshall]

25. Replace her with Kamala Harris

The clock is ticking—time to move quickly and strategically.

[madville]

26. No way Manchin and Sinema sign off on that

And then there would be the issue of if Harris could vote for herself if she had to be the tiebreaker vote.

[totodeinhere]

27. I believe that she will stay.

In this day and age diabetes type II is manageable. 70 is not too old for a woman. I think she can survive Trump and hope for a Dem to win in2028.

[FloridaBlues]

28. Not a good plan who's to say republicans won't block it like they did under Obama