Some voices on the left are calling for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to retire “for the sake of us all,” as one columnist, Mehdi Hasan, wrote at The Guardian. Hasan argues that the 69-year-old Sotomayor, appointed in 2009 under Democrat Barack Obama’s administration, should retire to safeguard the Supreme Court from her seat being filled by a “far-right conservative” under a Republican presidency. Hasan and the broader progressive left worry about a replay similar to what happened with Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s replacement by former President Donald Trump-appointed Amy Coney Barrett, leading to the Court’s 6-3 conservative majority.
Hasan highlights concern about Sonia Sotomayor’s age, as she will turn 70 in June, and her health issues, particularly that she has had type 1 diabetes since childhood, which required paramedics’ response to her home in 2018. Hasan says a…
