Liberal Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, 70, has no intention of stepping down from the court to allow President Joe Biden to replace her with someone younger, a person close to her said.
Since former President Donald Trump was re-elected last week, left-wing pundits have begun calling for Mayor Soto, who was nominated to the Supreme Court by then-President Barack Obama in 2009, to resign.
“Today is probably a good day for Mr. Sotomayor to retire,” David Dayen, editor in chief of the progressive magazine American Prospect, posted the day after Mr. Trump's campaign was called. did.
MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan reposted an April op-ed he wrote for the Guardian, saying the mayor should resign “for the sake of all of us.”
“Sadly, this piece of mine from April (!) is actually quite old,” he captioned X's post.
CNN's Bakari Sellers even suggested replacing Mayor Soto with unsuccessful candidate Vice President Kamala Harris.
“We have a hell of a vice president who has a legal background that would make him a Supreme Court justice,” Sellers said in an appearance on the station Friday morning, adding that he wants to “piss off” Republicans.
Despite widespread calls for Sotomayor to resign, a source close to Sotomayor said: said of wall street journal “This is not the time to lose her precious voice on the court,” he said over the weekend.
“She just turned 70 and takes better care of herself than anyone I know,” the source claimed.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) also told NBC's Kristen Welker that Sotomayor should not resign, but acknowledged he had heard “a little bit” about the matter.
“Judges don't like to be pressured into giving up their lifetime appointments,” said Breitbart News senior legal contributor Ken Kurkowski.
“It's ridiculous that the left is proposing Kamala Harris to replace Sotomayor on the Supreme Court,” Kurkowski continued. “'Wow, Harris is a legal genius!' No one has ever said that.”
