The Democratic Party is secretly fighting over whether to try and force out Justice Sonia Sotomayor to avoid the specter of Donald Trump sending the U.S. Supreme Court further to the right. Senators are reportedly at odds over whether to put pressure on Sotomayor—the first Latina justice—to step down while Democrats still have the power to usher in her replacement.
Although she is only 70, Sotomayor suffers from Type 1 diabetes and is the oldest of the three remaining Democratic Party-appointed justices. There is no suggestion that she has any intention of walking off into the sunset of her own volition.
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Unfortunately for the Democrats, once again their party's demands for militant ideological purity are destroying their ability to actually do anything -- even save themselves...
Attempts among party activists last year to initiate the move were met, said Playbook, by accusations of “ableism” and “racism.”
