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She's a 69 year old type 1 diabetic...
You know what the average lifespan for a type 1 diabetic woman is?
68 years old...
She should have stepped down immediately and let Biden replace her. Instead if Biden keeps fucking up, trump could very likely get another.
She does have the very best healthcare in the country though...
True.
But stress is something that needs to be avoided to help increase lifespan with type 1 diabetes.
And she's not shy about how she's doing
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/sotomayor-says-surprised-by-supreme-court-pace-tougher-workload
Just like RBG, she's taking it personal and thinking only her can "fight the good fight".
She's great and all, but we can find someone 30 years younger with a much lower risk of dying while Republicans have power.
This is bigger than any one person.
No, they can't guarantee Sinema or Manchin so they don't for sure have 51 votes to confirm. If Sotomayor leaves before there's a guarantee she'll get replaced with someone else on the left, the consequences could be very bad.
If she were more worried about the country than her own position she would have stepped down. And yes I know this throws shade on RBG. I'm still fucking angry she didn't step down before it was too late. It's not like she didn't have plenty of warning. I judge the justices by their actions and it seems they don't give enough of a shit. And now the rest of us pay the price.
With the benefit of hindsight, we know that even with Obama in office, the Republican Senate would have blocked a new appointment for RBGa seat after 2014. Perhaps it was naive of her to stay beyond the age of 80, but not many were calling for her to retire in 2014.
It really only became apparent how fucked the situation became when Merrick Garland's nomination was blocked in 2016 and then especially when Trump was elected. Looking back, we can predict when the optimal time to retire would have been, but in the moment, it wasn't so clear.