Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the oldest Democratic-appointed Supreme Court justice, has received calls from several left-liberal activists to step down from the Supreme Court so she doesn’t die in office.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) made some of the strongest comments approaching saying what has been rumored as a push to force Sotomayor out of her chambers to give President Joe Biden an opportunity to appoint another Supreme Court justice. In an interview with NBC News, he cautioned her to “weigh the competing factors.”
“I’m very respectful of Justice Sotomayor,” Blumenthal said. “I have great admiration for her. But I think she really has to weigh the competing factors. We should learn a lesson. And it’s not like there’s any mystery here about what the lesson should be. The old saying — graveyards are full of indispensable people, ourselves
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