Democrats are still traumatized by Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death just before the 2016 election—that helped pave the way for three Trump-appointed Supreme Court justices.
Sotomayor was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes when she was just seven years old, and the Huffington Post earlier this yearThese are challenges for someone with lifelong diabetes, but they are not disqualifying. The Court is intentionally opaque about much of what it does, so there are no regular health updates on justices with lifetime appointments. SCOTUS recently put out its first ethical guidelines, which Ford notes “are weaker than what’s in place in lower courts.”
The decision is intensely personal, which for Sotomayor means being honest with herself about the course of her condition and how it might affect life expectancy. She has been on the Court for fifteen years. As the Court’s first and only Latina, she doesn’t want to cut short her unique perspective to take one for the team.: “President Biden believes that decisions to retire from the Supreme Court should be made by the justices themselves and no one else.
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