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After Justice Scalia’s death, then RBG’s death and then Democrats and leftists launching a pressure campaign to get Justice Breyer to step down, I predicted we would be looking at this as the new normal. And here it is.
Moneyball for Supreme Court justices means picking them young and then getting out as soon as they get old. Or older.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) made a veiled reference to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — who ignored calls to step down for years during former President Barack Obama’s tenure. She passed away in 2020, with former President Donald Trump choosing her successor.
“I’m very respectful of Justice Sotomayor,” Blumenthal told NBC. “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 in this body included.”
Vietnam War hero Sen. Richard Blumenthal is 78 years old. Sotomayor is 69. If anyone should be stepping down here, it’s Dick.
The obsession with booting Sotomayor is also a little on the strange side. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was 87. Justice Scalia was 79. Even if Trump comes back in 2024, Sotomayor will only be in her mid-70s. Justices, whether they retire or not, live a long time. Unless the chatter about her medical problems is more serious than just diabetes, there’s no reason to think she’s going to kick the bucket in the next 4 years.
All the hysteria over Sotomayor dying and letting Trump appoint a conservative justice seems groundless. So is there another motivation besides hoping to replace a 69-year-old with a 53-year-old?
I understand shoving Justice Breyer out the door for being too moderate, but Sotomayor, until the Left replaced Justice Breyer with Ketanji Brown Jackson, was the most vocal firebreathing leftist on the court. She’s not very good at her job and is a joke as a jurist, but since when have lefties cared all that much about it. Besides with the current lineup, Kagan plays the inside game with Roberts, while Sotomayor virtue signals.
The real question though is will Sotomayor even go for it?
After feebly protesting, Breyer allowed himself to be bullied off the bench. But I don’t think Sotomayor can be bullied. She can however likely be bribed. The question is what do you get the woman who already has one of the most prized positions in the country? Presidency of a law school? Some job where she never has to show up for work but gets paid $2 million a year? I could see Sotomayor going for the latter, but she’s also likely to want to remain in a unique historic role which means leftists are just annoying her for nothing.
Either way, Sotomayor is going to want more than Breyer settling for a Harvard professorship.
I think the Dems are just obsessed with what happened to Ginsburg’s seat, and can’t get over it. I though Barret would be a more solid conservative, but the non-stop protests by the Marxists outside her home when she has so many children, and the general threats of violence to all of the conservative justices have worn her down. The Dems just sent out their weak minded Vietnam War hero to do their dirty work. That’s who they are.
Calling Blumenthal a Vietnam war hero is sarcasm. He never served in Vietnam. He only claimed he did. He stands on the bodies and sacrifices of true Vietnam combat veterans, and claims their valor as his own. There is no lower life form on Earth. .
Full Metal Jacket Dickless Blumenthal is a typical Dirtbagocrat and member of the party personified by Pedo Joe Alzheimer Beijing Biden and his fake lunch box, the Hokatard fake President.
Terrestrial life only exists so low under the Earth but Dickless Buttinhell and Joke Bitedick have managed to burrow deeper into the Underworld than the lowest dinosaur turd ever managed.
Post America.
Mr. Greenfield accurate depicts motivations that are all base for a public servant. It would not occur to Sotomayor to serve the people by obeying the Constitution. True public service is humble and never about one’s own person. Very rare.
Yes, people should do their best to live for their neighbors, especially public “servants.” What is a person’s life worth if they aren’t willing to give it for somebody else? Not much, I figure. Easy to say and not so easy to do, I know, but we all have to try.
Blumenthal is a worm and Sotomayor isn’t much of a higher life form.
Jeff, I do not live for my neighbor, but I would certainly help if there was need.
I was thinking more of the public servant who is paid. But public servants often now receive exorbitant salaries and sinecures that far exceed the earnings the hard-working American taxpayer.
Public service used to have more service and less remuneration – in keeping with the idea of honorably giving of oneself in grateful service.
Like Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus. Like George Washington.
I bet you would risk your life for a good neighbor in need. I live in a big apartment building so a lot of my neighbors are scumbags but not all of them. I’ve already risked myself for several of them and I’m no hero.
People like George Washington and Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (I had to look him up) definitely deserved more remuneration for their contributions to humanity.
I’ve read that Sotomayor is not in good health and has diabetes problems. The left doesn’t care about her at all. They are just afraid of her dropping dead during a Republican presidency.
Yes, exactly. If nothing else, the left always plans ahead. Everything is a battle strategy in their war. `They play checkers with people’s lives. They don’t care for her even though she disregards the constitution, virtue signals, and is a minority. She’s some garbage they’d throw away for an advantage.
How can anyone support them? smh
Sotomayor and Jackson sit on the Supreme Court strictly as comic relief. Gifts given to the country by presidents that have no regard for the constitution or the American people. Neither has the vaguest understanding of the constitution, or why it exists. As for Da Nang Dick, well known phony and valor thief, it’s well past time for him to head off into retirement. Why would anyone care what he thinks?
Leftists are full on fascists.
The question is why the good folks don’t call them out for it.
Senile Senators belong in a special place where they can have their loose screws fixed
I wonder why the D-Bags really want the “wise latina” out? It isn’t because of her age and she seems as hard left as it’s possible to be, next To Ketanji Fraud Whatsername, who’s an obvious empty vessel for the “woke” lefttards.
What did the racist bean bandit do to piss off the Alphabet People and their Dirtbagocrat pawns/patrons?
To maybe put an Obama in there? Maybe first trans or some such thing.
Some “stuff” you just can’t make up…
Without double standards, DaNang Dick would have no standards at all.