{"id":360103,"date":"2024-04-16T16:15:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T21:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=360103"},"modified":"2024-04-16T16:15:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T21:15:54","slug":"unpacking-the-court-why-the-left-wants-sotomayor-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=360103","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Unpacking\u2019 the Court: Why the Left Wants Sotomayor Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2024\/04\/16\/unpacking-court-why-left-wants-sotomayor-gone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Foundry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ever since losing control of the Supreme Court to a nominally conservative majority, many of the same liberals who have brazenly called for \u201cpacking the court\u201d are now just as brazenly seeking to unpack it.<\/p>\n<p>If ever there was proof that the Left views the Supreme Court as just another legislative body to lobby for their agenda, it\u2019s their shameless efforts to pressure liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, 69, to retire before the presidential election in November so President Joe Biden can nominate a younger\u2014and equally or more liberal\u2014replacement.<\/p>\n<p>According to a pair of March 27 articles in The Huffington Post and at AboveTheLaw.com, two leftist law professors are among the loudest voices calling for Sotomayor\u2019s resignation. \u201cI would love to see Sotomayor retire,\u201d one of them, Lucas Powe Jr., a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin. \u201cI would love to trade her for a 50-year-old justice.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Presumably one with two brain cells to rub together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Foundry. Ever since losing control of the Supreme Court to a nominally conservative majority, many of the same liberals who have brazenly called for \u201cpacking the court\u201d are now just as brazenly seeking to unpack it. If ever there was proof that the Left views the Supreme Court as just another legislative body to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats-party-of-fear-party-of-hate-party-of-death"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360104,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360103\/revisions\/360104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}