For the sake of all of us, Sonia Sotomayor needs to retire from the US supreme court

[Anonymous]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/01/for-the-sake-of-all-of-us-sonia-sotomayor-needs-to-retire-from-the-us-supreme-court

“Forget Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It is Sonia Sotomayor who is the greatest liberal to sit on the supreme court in my adult lifetime. The first Latina to hold the position of justice, she has blazed a relentlessly progressive trail on the highest bench in the land.

And so it is with good reason that she has been called the “conscience of the supreme court” (the Nation), “the truth teller of the supreme court” (New York Times) and “the real liberal queen of the court” (Above the Law).

Of course, only Sotomayor knows the full status of her health, still it is public knowledge that she has had type 1 diabetes since she was seven; had paramedics called to her home; and is the only sitting justice to have, reportedly, traveled with a medic. To be clear: she could easily – and God willing – survive a potential Trump second term and still be dishing out dissents from the bench come 2029.“

I was saddened to see this article. The same thoughts have been echoing in my mind. I pray Justice Sotomayor lives a thousand and one days. I know that is an impossibility.

I believe she should consider retirement. The stakes are too high.

[Anonymous]

Good Lord. You people will never give up. You forced Breyer out, now you are onto Sotomayor.
She'll retire when she's good and ready.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good Lord. You people will never give up. You forced Breyer out, now you are onto Sotomayor.
She'll retire when she's good and ready.

I see both sides here. RBG held on too long given her health issues and the result was another Trump appointee.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good Lord. You people will never give up. You forced Breyer out, now you are onto Sotomayor.
She'll retire when she's good and ready.

Yes, and Breyer was then replaced by a much younger Jackson. RBG on the other hand waited until she died and got replaced by Barrett. See the difference?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good Lord. You people will never give up. You forced Breyer out, now you are onto Sotomayor.
She'll retire when she's good and ready.

I see both sides here. RBG held on too long given her health issues and the result was another Trump appointee.

Sotomayor is only 69. RBG was 87 when she died and had several bouts with cancer.
Big difference. Diabetes is controllable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good Lord. You people will never give up. You forced Breyer out, now you are onto Sotomayor.
She'll retire when she's good and ready.

Yes, and Breyer was then replaced by a much younger Jackson. RBG on the other hand waited until she died and got replaced by Barrett. See the difference?

Both were replaced with younger women.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good Lord. You people will never give up. You forced Breyer out, now you are onto Sotomayor.
She'll retire when she's good and ready.

Yes, and Breyer was then replaced by a much younger Jackson. RBG on the other hand waited until she died and got replaced by Barrett. See the difference?

Both were replaced with younger women.

All women are the same, amirite?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good Lord. You people will never give up. You forced Breyer out, now you are onto Sotomayor.
She'll retire when she's good and ready.

I see both sides here. RBG held on too long given her health issues and the result was another Trump appointee.

Sotomayor is only 69. RBG was 87 when she died and had several bouts with cancer.
Big difference. Diabetes is controllable.

One was a rail thin Ashkenazi - they live forever effectively

The other is an overweight Latina —

I thought Dems were the party of science and math?

Just read an actuarial table

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good Lord. You people will never give up. You forced Breyer out, now you are onto Sotomayor.
She'll retire when she's good and ready.

I see both sides here. RBG held on too long given her health issues and the result was another Trump appointee.

Sotomayor is only 69. RBG was 87 when she died and had several bouts with cancer.
Big difference. Diabetes is controllable.

69 with type 1 is equivalent to at least 80 in terms of life expectancy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/01/for-the-sake-of-all-of-us-sonia-sotomayor-needs-to-retire-from-the-us-supreme-court

“Forget Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It is Sonia Sotomayor who is the greatest liberal to sit on the supreme court in my adult lifetime. The first Latina to hold the position of justice, she has blazed a relentlessly progressive trail on the highest bench in the land.

And so it is with good reason that she has been called the “conscience of the supreme court” (the Nation), “the truth teller of the supreme court” (New York Times) and “the real liberal queen of the court” (Above the Law).

Of course, only Sotomayor knows the full status of her health, still it is public knowledge that she has had type 1 diabetes since she was seven; had paramedics called to her home; and is the only sitting justice to have, reportedly, traveled with a medic. To be clear: she could easily – and God willing – survive a potential Trump second term and still be dishing out dissents from the bench come 2029.“

I was saddened to see this article. The same thoughts have been echoing in my mind. I pray Justice Sotomayor lives a thousand and one days. I know that is an impossibility.

I believe she should consider retirement. The stakes are too high.

I agree Sotomayor should resign if the goal is to ensure the seat is replaced with another liberal justice. But the rest of those quotes are patently ridiculous. She is intellectually the weakest justice on the court and always has been, and by a goodly margin. She was only appointed on identity politics grounds. "Truth teller" and "conscience of the supreme court" are both claptrap and the former shockingly incorrect. Elena Kagan by contrast is a seriously intellectual and wise SCOTUS justice and I hope the next replacement is her mold, not another third rate judge fast-tracked just because the progressives decided they needed a "wise Latina."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/01/for-the-sake-of-all-of-us-sonia-sotomayor-needs-to-retire-from-the-us-supreme-court

“Forget Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It is Sonia Sotomayor who is the greatest liberal to sit on the supreme court in my adult lifetime. The first Latina to hold the position of justice, she has blazed a relentlessly progressive trail on the highest bench in the land.

And so it is with good reason that she has been called the “conscience of the supreme court” (the Nation), “the truth teller of the supreme court” (New York Times) and “the real liberal queen of the court” (Above the Law).

Of course, only Sotomayor knows the full status of her health, still it is public knowledge that she has had type 1 diabetes since she was seven; had paramedics called to her home; and is the only sitting justice to have, reportedly, traveled with a medic. To be clear: she could easily – and God willing – survive a potential Trump second term and still be dishing out dissents from the bench come 2029.“

I was saddened to see this article. The same thoughts have been echoing in my mind. I pray Justice Sotomayor lives a thousand and one days. I know that is an impossibility.

I believe she should consider retirement. The stakes are too high.

I agree Sotomayor should resign if the goal is to ensure the seat is replaced with another liberal justice. But the rest of those quotes are patently ridiculous. She is intellectually the weakest justice on the court and always has been, and by a goodly margin. She was only appointed on identity politics grounds. "Truth teller" and "conscience of the supreme court" are both claptrap and the former shockingly incorrect. Elena Kagan by contrast is a seriously intellectual and wise SCOTUS justice and I hope the next replacement is her mold, not another third rate judge fast-tracked just because the progressives decided they needed a "wise Latina."

You live in some alternate reality if you think that Sotomayor is intellectually weaker than either Kavanaugh or Coney Barrett.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/01/for-the-sake-of-all-of-us-sonia-sotomayor-needs-to-retire-from-the-us-supreme-court

“Forget Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It is Sonia Sotomayor who is the greatest liberal to sit on the supreme court in my adult lifetime. The first Latina to hold the position of justice, she has blazed a relentlessly progressive trail on the highest bench in the land.

And so it is with good reason that she has been called the “conscience of the supreme court” (the Nation), “the truth teller of the supreme court” (New York Times) and “the real liberal queen of the court” (Above the Law).

Of course, only Sotomayor knows the full status of her health, still it is public knowledge that she has had type 1 diabetes since she was seven; had paramedics called to her home; and is the only sitting justice to have, reportedly, traveled with a medic. To be clear: she could easily – and God willing – survive a potential Trump second term and still be dishing out dissents from the bench come 2029.“

I was saddened to see this article. The same thoughts have been echoing in my mind. I pray Justice Sotomayor lives a thousand and one days. I know that is an impossibility.

I believe she should consider retirement. The stakes are too high.

I agree Sotomayor should resign if the goal is to ensure the seat is replaced with another liberal justice. But the rest of those quotes are patently ridiculous. She is intellectually the weakest justice on the court and always has been, and by a goodly margin. She was only appointed on identity politics grounds. "Truth teller" and "conscience of the supreme court" are both claptrap and the former shockingly incorrect. Elena Kagan by contrast is a seriously intellectual and wise SCOTUS justice and I hope the next replacement is her mold, not another third rate judge fast-tracked just because the progressives decided they needed a "wise Latina."

Bolded above might have been true at one time but that changed on June 30, 2022.

[Anonymous]

Ta hell with this idea.

[Anonymous]

McConnell was a corrupted rino in bed with the Chinese Communists. He stayed way too long.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/01/for-the-sake-of-all-of-us-sonia-sotomayor-needs-to-retire-from-the-us-supreme-court

“Forget Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It is Sonia Sotomayor who is the greatest liberal to sit on the supreme court in my adult lifetime. The first Latina to hold the position of justice, she has blazed a relentlessly progressive trail on the highest bench in the land.

And so it is with good reason that she has been called the “conscience of the supreme court” (the Nation), “the truth teller of the supreme court” (New York Times) and “the real liberal queen of the court” (Above the Law).

Of course, only Sotomayor knows the full status of her health, still it is public knowledge that she has had type 1 diabetes since she was seven; had paramedics called to her home; and is the only sitting justice to have, reportedly, traveled with a medic. To be clear: she could easily – and God willing – survive a potential Trump second term and still be dishing out dissents from the bench come 2029.“

I was saddened to see this article. The same thoughts have been echoing in my mind. I pray Justice Sotomayor lives a thousand and one days. I know that is an impossibility.

I believe she should consider retirement. The stakes are too high.

I agree Sotomayor should resign if the goal is to ensure the seat is replaced with another liberal justice. But the rest of those quotes are patently ridiculous. She is intellectually the weakest justice on the court and always has been, and by a goodly margin. She was only appointed on identity politics grounds. "Truth teller" and "conscience of the supreme court" are both claptrap and the former shockingly incorrect. Elena Kagan by contrast is a seriously intellectual and wise SCOTUS justice and I hope the next replacement is her mold, not another third rate judge fast-tracked just because the progressives decided they needed a "wise Latina."

You live in some alternate reality if you think that Sotomayor is intellectually weaker than either Kavanaugh or Coney Barrett.

Sotomayor has a slightly higher IQ than Kavanaugh but both are behind Barrett in that regard. All three are intellectually stronger than 98.2% of the American population.