IDK with Sinema and Manchin there

As it stands, the best candidates will always be passed over for being "too old". And random happenstace will have more effect on the compostion of the court than the will of the voters.

that Thomas and Alito retire?
Are we only supposed to clutch pearls and do the hand wringing on one side of the aisle?

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Alito and Thomas don’t.

This might be the last opportunity Democrats have to confirm a SCOTUS nominee for a long time, Sotomayor should give retirement serious consideration.

in being replaced at all.
As for the rest - I guess I thought the sarcasm layered through my post was - readily apparent.
(I will try to apply a 'thingie' to the next post that comes within an approximate football field .. )
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A woman must retire! A younger one at that! Disgusting show of misogyny.

As the only Democratic judges are women.

And I definitely was unhappy that RBG didn't retire.

However, there is no indication I know of of serious life-threatening stuff with Sonia, so I think they are way off base.

who said there was no difference between Hillary or Trump, and they would “not vote against the lesser of the two evils “

Haven’t they done enough damage?

In 2016, in every critical swing state Hillary lost by less than 1%, while Jill Stein received 1% of the vote.

It didn’t take much

Do these wonderful legal intellectuals think Biden will lose? If Biden loses, the odds aren’t to good for the Senate since both are determined by statewide elections

My advice, how about getting out the vote to win the WH, and both houses of Congress, since it won’t matter if Trump is reelected, because the country will be finished in that case

Just focus on winning the election instead of stupid last minute games that would most likely be blocked by the Senate republicans anyone

That is where we need to spend time. Winning the election

I think to have her retire would be saying that Joe has already lost the election.

Can we stop with recon talking points?

Since the 6-3 Court split, she's kind of assumed an aura of elder liberal leader on the Court. I know she's only been there, what, 15 years. But anyone who listens to oral arguments regularly will get it. There's heft and gravitas when she gets going.

vacancy.

It would not be surprising if a reelected Biden was forced to face a Republican Senate for the remainder of his term, and there is a high probability for the White House to change party hands after two terms.

This could be Sotomayor’s last chance to retire and ensure a like-minded replacement for a very long time.

It might not be fair, but it is a strategic consideration that shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand.

What's the difference between 6-3 and 7-2, anyway? The Trump 3 are there for decades.

I was a big proponent of Justice Ginsburg retiring as we got closer to the 2016 election. She was a brilliant Justice and so respected. I'm sure she never thought Hillary Clinton would lose the 2016 election to Trump so she hung on banking on Hillary getting elected and then Pres Hillary Clinton appointing a new SCJ to replace her. Unfortunately, as we all know, that wasn't how things worked out.

She was an ailing 87 year old Justice and hung on for s long as she could, but passed in September 2020 and Trump replaced her with Amy Coney Barrett on October 27, 2020 just a month before the November 2020 election which saw Joe Biden boot Trump out of office. But it was too late then.

Are we now facing a similar situation? In my heart I just know Biden will runaway with this election, but for some reason my head is telling me something different.

From oldest to youngest, the ages of the current Supreme Court justices are:
Justice Thomas, 75.
Justice Alito, 73.
Justice Sotomayor, 69.
Chief Justice Roberts, 69.
Justice Kagan, 63.
Justice Kavanaugh, 58.
Justice Gorsuch, 56.
Justice Jackson, 53.
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It is based, in the first place, on the mistaken notion that if only Ruth Bader Ginsburg had retired while Obama was president and Democrats held the Senate, we would be in a different situation with respect to the Supreme Court. But what these folks fail to remember is that McConnell was hellbent on preventing Obama from naming a third justice to the court. And Republicans, at that point, still had the filibuster with respect to Supreme Court nominees, and they wouldn't have hesitated to use it!

Dems about to lose the Senate and White House? I'll believe that bs when I see it.