Some liberals have called for Sotomayor to resign, citing fears about the Court’s direction if Trump wins a second term.
United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Clarence Thomas pose for their official portrait on October 7, 2022 in Washington, D.C.As calls increase for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to resign from her position ahead of the 2024 presidential election , polling has demonstrated that a plurality of Americans don’t want Sotomayor to quit the Court just yet., Sotomayor has a net-positive favorability rating among American voters of 9 points.
Barro also said that if Biden nominated someone now to replace her, confirmation of a new justice would be a “slam dunk.” “It is all well and good to be mad at RBG, but then we just keep replicating that underlying problem, in the form of:. “Because we haven’t learned the lesson that you can pack the court, you can impose term limits, you can do jurisdiction-stripping. You can do systemic reform to change the fact that we live in a monarchy in which we wait for smoke signals to see which of the dauphins will next rule.
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