Liberals face Manchin roadblock to replacing Sotomayor on Supreme Court

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Washington Examiner

Senate Democrats have rebuffed the Left’s attempts to give Justice Sonia Sotomayor the Ruth Bader Ginsburg treatment.

Members of the Judiciary Committee, tasked with approving her eventual replacement, have broadly dismissed a pressure campaign to send her into retirement and appoint a younger justice.

 

But it is Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), progressives’ arch nemesis in the Senate, who is making the calls for her to resign mathematically implausible in a chamber Democrats control by a single vote. He told the Washington Examiner that he would not vote to confirm any Supreme Court justice who cannot attract Republican support.

The pocket veto, which he calls “my own little filibuster,” is not quite new. He imposed it for all judges in March. But it has taken on greater relevance as Sotomayor, who turns 70 in June, faces a wave of calls for her to step down before the end of President Joe Biden’s first term.