Stop the Stupid Talk About Justice Sotomayor

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In a desperate play to save the face of the liberal media’s mindless and unswerving backing of Kamala Harris for President, a liberal pundit Sunday floated nominating failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris to replace US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor while the Democrats still cling to power.

 

It was reported in the Sunday afternoon online edition of the New York Post that Bakari Sellers, a CNN commentator and former state lawmaker in South Carolina, was adamant on social media that progressives need to ramp up pressure on Sotomayor, a 70-year-old type 1 diabetic, to step aside even as she resists the effort.

“Sotomayor needs to resign. The court is currently 6-3. [Her resignation] would limit Trump’s ability to make it 7-2. It’s silly to believe there is no difference,” Sellers wrote on X.

Yes, in theory, he is right, since after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in 2020, the Senate moved at “warp speed “ to confirm Justice Amy Coney Barrett in that time. But now, as each day passes, the time is beginning to run out.

The current Senate term officially expires on January 3. And for all intents and purposes, the Senate will recess for the Christmas Holiday on or about December 20.

The Senate is not expected to return until Wednesday this week, following the recent Election, and the Thanksgiving recess will soon be upon us. So, that leaves just five real weeks that the current Democrat-controlled Senate can act.

And that assumes Justice Sotomayor is willing to resign this week. Effective immediately. Chances of that happening are slim, at best.

While there are allegedly some candidates who may have been “vetted”, you can be sure that the Republicans, and perhaps Senator

Joe Manchin, will stonewall the hearings for their own vengeful purposes.

And if the Democrats put forward the name of Kamala Harris as some have mentioned, there is no way she would pass muster given the way she treated Justice Brett Kavanaugh when he was forced to endure her now hypocritical grilling. Especially after what we learned about the way her husband treated women and still denigrated Kavanaugh based on falsehoods.

So, leave Justice Sotomayor right where she is. She is a liberal Justice, but not a detriment. Anything else to be done now would only hurt the Court. And its reputation.

Enough with the stupid and asinine liberal ideas.