Source: WSJ: Justice Sotomayor Has No Plans to Resign | Newsmax.com
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has no plans to resign despite calls from some Democrats to do so before Republicans take control of the U.S. Senate in January.
The 70-year-old Sotomayor, nominated by then-President Barack Obama in 2009, is the oldest Democrat-appointed justice on the court. She’s also a life-long diabetic.
It was reported last week that Democrat U.S. senators and other party members were discussing whether to convince Sotomayor to resign so President Joe Biden can replace her with another leftist judge before President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20.
“This is no time to lose her important voice on the court. She just turned 70 and takes better care of herself than anyone I know,” one person close to Sotomayor told The Wall Street Journal.
Even before all the states had been called during Tuesday night’s election, some Democrats were suggesting that Biden be given the chance to nominate one more Supreme Court justice.
“Sotomayor should retire tomorrow and let the lame duck Senate confirm her replacement,” Miranda Yaver, an assistant professor of health policy and management at the University of Pittsburgh, posted Tuesday night on X.
“This would probably be a good day for Sotomayor to retire,” David Dayen, editor of The American Prospect, wrote on X.
Many Democrats remember Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died in 2020 at age 87. Ginsburg had resisted calls from liberals to step down in the early 2010s while President Barack Obama and the Democrats were in power.
After Ginsburg died, Trump nominated Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who was approved by a GOP-controlled Senate shortly before Democrats captured both the chamber and the White House.
Liberal Justice Stephen Breyer stepped down at age 83 soon after Biden and Senate Democrats took over in 2021. He was replaced by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
尽管一些民主党人呼吁最高法院大法官索尼娅·索托马约尔在共和党于 1 月控制美国参议院之前辞职，但她没有辞职的计划。 现年 70 岁的索托马约尔于 2009 年由时任总统巴拉克·奥巴马提名，是最高法院中年龄最大的民主党任命大法官。她还是一名终生糖尿病患者。 上周有报道称，民主党美国参议员和其他党员正在讨论是否说服索托马约尔辞职，以便总统乔·拜登可以在当选总统唐纳德·特朗普于 1 月 20 日上任之前用另一位左翼法官取代她。 “现在不是失去她在法庭上重要声音的时候。她刚满 70 岁，比我认识的任何人都更照顾自己，”一位与索托马约尔关系密切的人士告诉《华尔街日报》。 甚至在周二晚上选举期间所有州都宣布结果之前，一些民主党人就建议给拜登提名另一名最高法院大法官的机会。 匹兹堡大学卫生政策与管理学助理教授米兰达·亚弗 (Miranda Yaver) 周二晚上在 X 上发帖称：“索托马约尔应该明天退休，让弱势的参议院确认她的继任者。” 《美国展望》编辑大卫·戴恩 (David Dayen) 在 X 上写道：“这可能是索托马约尔退休的好日子。” 许多民主党人记得大法官露丝·巴德·金斯伯格 (Ruth Bader Ginsburg)，她于 2020 年去世，享年 87 岁。在 2010 年代初，当总统巴拉克·奥巴马 (Barack Obama) 和民主党执政时，金斯伯格曾抵制自由派要求她下台的呼吁。 金斯伯格去世后，特朗普提名了大法官艾米·科尼·巴雷特 (Amy Coney Barrett)，在民主党占领参议院和白宫前不久，她得到了共和党控制的参议院的批准。 自由派大法官斯蒂芬·布雷耶在拜登和参议院民主党于 2021 年上任后不久卸任，享年 83 岁。他的继任者是大法官凯坦吉·布朗·杰克逊。
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