"Debate Over Justice Sotomayor's Retirement Sparks Concern Among Democrats"

Democratic senators are not publicly calling for liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor to retire, but express unease over the possibility of history repeating itself after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's refusal to step down led to a conservative majority. Some liberal commentators and legal advocacy groups are calling on Sotomayor to retire while President Biden is in office and Democrats control the Senate, but elected officials are hesitant. Sotomayor, who is 69 and a lifelong diabetic, has not signaled any plans to retire, and her choice is not immediately pivotal as the liberal minority lacks the votes to move the court to the left without conservative buy-in.