Ginsburg supreme court retirement rumors

Justice Sonia Sotomayor made a point of describing how “tired” she is at a recent public event and how she’s working harder than expected on the eve of turning 70.

But the nation’s first Latina on the US Supreme Court has faced little public pressure from progressives to retire ahead of the November election in which Republicans could regain control of the White House, Senate—or both.

Progressives similarly felt uneasy calling for Ruth Bader Ginsburg to step aside while Barack Obama was in office.

Some regretted that silence when her death from pancreatic cancer at 87 mere weeks before the 2020 election paved the way for a 6-3 conservative court.

As was the case with Ginsburg, a feminist icon, there is a sensitivity in pushing for the retirement of the first woman of color to serve on the Supreme Court, said Paul Collins, a legal studies and political science professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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