Discussing Sonia Sotomayor’s retirement is not sexist

Should Just Sonia Sotomayor retire during the Trump Administration?

Due to her supposed failing health the Liberal wing of the country made an unsuccessful attempt to persuade Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step down early this year so that Joe Biden could replace her before the election that he had the potential to loss.

It's to late for that strategy now; but liberals, is it still a bad idea for her to go?

The court is conservative and it will be for some years; with or with out Sonia Sotomayor. Would it be strategic for liberals to allow it to go more conservative?

My argument is simply. The liberals want nothing more than to pack the court, and while they may not be in a position to do it for a few years they will some day. Why not allow the court to become more conservative so that they have an even greater arguments to increase the seats once they are in power again. They are not going to win back the court through national retirements.

Discussing Sonia Sotomayor’s retirement is not sexist – it’s strategic

Sexism and Sonia Sotomayor
A month ago Josh Barro (a man) at the Atlantic wrote a piece headlined Sonia Sotomayor Should Retire Now. Around the same time the Guardian’s Mehdi Hasan (a man) similarly opined that “for the sake of all of us, Sonia Sotomayor needs to retire from the US supreme court.” The University of Colorado Boulder law professor Paul Campos (a man) also went on CNN to argue that 69-year-old Sotomayor should consider stepping down as a justice in order to give Joe Biden time to fill the seat with another liberal judge should the worst happen. And pundit Nate Silver (you guessed it … another man) said much the same thing.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that once you can count at least three instances of something, then, congratulations, you’ve got a trend. In this case, various commentators proclaimed, an extremely gendered trend. The fact that a bunch of men were clamouring for a high-profile woman to retire immediately sparked cries of sexism.

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a reply to: Dandandat3

Trump has a mandate from the American people.

They gave him back the white house, along with the House and Senate.

It's too late for the regime to replace her. The Republicans should refuse to confirm anyone until Trump takes office.

Isn't the whole problem "packing the court?"

Aren't these justices supposed to know the constitution inside and out, and only follow that to make a decision?

They shouldn't "lean" any way, should they?

a reply to: watchitburn

Understood;

My argument is that the only real way for the Democrats to bring the court back to center, or move it to the left, any time soon would be to increase the number of Justices. Otherwise, they would not be able to install enough new Justices to take back the court for at least 20 years. When they regain power earlier than that, and they will; packing the court would accomplish the goal faster.

The problem for Democrats is that the American people are not supportive of increasing the number of Justices.

Allowing the court to become more conservative than it currently is could persuade more people to accept the idea.

a reply to: chiefsmom

No they shouldn't, but they do.