'Just too darn old:' Sanders, 78, Biden, 76, confront age concerns

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35. if she was nominated to the SCOTUS and confirmed, she would be around 72 at the earliest, making her

by far the oldest newly confirmed SCOTUS justice in history. Harlan Stone was 68 in 1941, and died less that 5 years later. There was a 73 year old, Caleb Cushing, who was nominated in 1874, but he was withdrawn (and died 5 years later), and a 74 year old, William Smith, who was nominated in 1837, but he declined to serve, and died 3 years later.

She is too old, IMHO, simply because we would lose the seat too soon, we should find someone in their 40's or early 50's, who will serve for decades.

All of this assumes we take back the Senate. If we do not, I can see the Rethugs refusing to confirm (or even hold a vote) the entire 4 or 8 years that we hold the POTUS, unless we nominated a straight up conservative like they would. I wish I were joking. The only way for sure is to win back the Senate in 2020 or surely in 2022. At the same time, if a Justice dies, even in summer or fall of 2020, they will rush through a con to the Court.