The pressure campaign on Justice Sotomayor needs to stop! [View all]
This entire notion that everything can be gamed out in advance is a fiction, based on the mistaken notion that it would have made a difference if Ruth Bader Ginsburg had only retired while Obama was president. It would not have. McConnell was hellbent on preventing Obama from naming a third justice to the court, and would have used every procedural and parliamentary trick in the book to prevent it from happening. It is true that Democrats held the Senate through 2013, but they still had the filibuster on Supreme Court nominees, and McConnell wouldn’t have hesitated to use it.
Besides, what with Manchin and Sinema still in the Senate, it is unclear whether Democrats could even seat a justice at the present moment!
And in any case, Sotomayor is just 69 years old. Yes, she is a type 1 diabetic, but she has managed that condition since she was 7 years old! And there are no other reports of any particular illness currently dogging her.
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