Dem Sen­a­tors Get Anx­ious Over Prospect Of Anoth­er Gins­burg Sit­u­a­tion On SCOTUS

Democ­rats in the Sen­ate are express­ing con­cerns about the pos­si­bil­i­ty of a sce­nario that echoes Supreme Court Jus­tice Ruth Bad­er Gins­burg sud­den­ly dying and giv­ing way to a con­ser­v­a­tive major­i­ty dur­ing Don­ald Trump’s pres­i­den­cy.
A report from NBC News explored how this anx­i­ety is cen­tered on Jus­tice Sonia Sotomay­or, the old­est lib­er­al mem­ber of the court at 69 and a life­long dia­bet­ic, not step­ping down while Pres­i­dent Joe Biden is in office and Democ­rats con­trol the Sen­ate.
“I’m very respect­ful of Jus­tice Sotomay­or. I have great admi­ra­tion for her. But I think she real­ly has to weigh the com­pet­ing fac­tors,” Sen. Richard Blu­men­thal (D‑CT) told the news out­let. “We should learn a les­son. And it’s not like there’s any mys­tery here about what the les­son should be. The old say­ing — grave­yards are full of indis­pens­able peo­ple, our­selves in this body includ­ed.”
Though Blu­men­thal said Sotomay­or is “a high­ly accom­plished and, obvi­ous­ly, ful­ly func­tion­ing jus­tice right now,” he not­ed that “jus­tices have to make their per­son­al deci­sions about their health, and their lev­el of ener­gy, but also t …