Con­gres­sion­al His­pan­ic Cau­cus rejects calls for Sotomay­or to retire from Supreme Court

Con­gres­sion­al His­pan­ic Cau­cus lead­ers issued a state­ment Sat­ur­day reject­ing calls for Supreme Court Jus­tice Sonia Sotomay­or to retire.
Some left-wing activists have called for Sotomay­or, 69, to step down from the high court under a Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­dent to avoid a repeat sit­u­a­tion of the vacan­cy caused by Jus­tice Ruth Bad­er Ginsburg’s death in 2020.
Gins­burg, 87, died near­ly four years into Repub­li­can Don­ald Trump’s pres­i­den­cy after not heed­ing calls to resign under Demo­c­ra­t­ic Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma. In his final months in office, Trump nom­i­nat­ed and Sen­ate Repub­li­cans swift­ly con­firmed Jus­tice Amy Coney Bar­rett, increas­ing the num­ber of GOP-appoint­ed jus­tices to six.
CHC lead­ers said they look for­ward to Sotomayor’s con­tin­ued ser­vice on the Supreme Court …