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Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan called on Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to retire on Monday so that President Biden could nominate another liberal justice to replace her, as former President Trump maintains leads in swing states ahead of the 2024 election.CNN host Jake Tapper asked the panelists during his show on Tuesday if they agreed with Hasan's argument. "With Joe Biden trailing Trump in several swing states and Democrats also in danger of losing their razor-thin majority in the Senate, are we really prepared for history to repeat itself? Sotomayor will turn 70 in June," Hasan wrote in a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/01/for-the-sake-of-all-of-us-sonia-sotomayor-needs-to-retire-from-the-us-supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">column for The Guardian.</a>"I have PTSD from 2020, I think the Democrats didn‘t learn lessons. Look, what are we talking about, abortion rights. How did that happen? Dobbs, how did the Florida decision happen today? DeSantis appointed five of the seven judges. Republicans are very good at stacking courts and getting their people on courts and thinking strategically about filling courts. Democrats aren't very good at seeing the power of the Supreme Court," Hasan told the other CNN panelists."And that’s why I worry. I worry that, why would you want to repeat history? Why take the risk? You have a Democratic president and a Democratic Senate, and you have a justice who is about to turn 70," he said.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sotomayor-describes-sense-despair-following-dobbs-abortion-ruling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SOTOMAYOR DESCRIBES SENSE OF ‘DESPAIR’ FOLLOWING DOBBS ABORTION RULING</a>CNN's Eva Mckend said she had really only heard calls from Hasan and Democrats widely have not been pushing Sotomayor to step down. She said she wasn't "so sure" about Sotomayor and argued it was a personal choice. <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/top-democrats-wont-join-calls-justice-sotomayor-retire-still-fear-ruth-rcna145912" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">NBC News reported</a> Wednesday that top Democrats would not be joining in on calls for the justice to retire. Asked about it during a press briefing on Monday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said it would be a "personal choice" for Sotomayor. Hasan pushed back on the idea that it's a personal choice during his CNN appearance and said it shouldn't be.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sotomayor-live-frustration-supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SOTOMAYOR SAYS ‘I LIVE IN FRUSTRATION’ ON SUPREME COURT</a>"It shouldn‘t be a personal choice. The U.S. Supreme Court is one of the only supreme courts in a democratic world that has lifetime tenure. It’s mad, England doesn‘t have it. Belgium doesn‘t have it. Spain doesn‘t have it. Australia New Zealand, you either have term limits or you have a 70 retirement age. What are people doing in their 80s on the Supreme Court? Or running for president, some might ask," he said. "Biden, elected Democrats, and liberals and progressives across the board should be both publicly and privately encouraging Sotomayor to consider what she wants her legacy to be, to remember what happened with RBG, and to not take any kind of gamble with the future of our democracy," Hasan argued in his column.Journalist and podcast host Josh Barro said in January that he was "surprised" <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/justice-sotoymayor-should-consider-whether-time-step-down-says-journalist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sotomayor hasn't "retired,"</a> as someone who is concerned about the balance of the court. Barro also wrote an op-ed calling on her to step down."It seems like that – it would be the right time strategically for her to step down in favor of somebody younger if she's very concerned about the political balance on the court," he said in January.Sotomayor spoke at the University of California Berkley Law school in January and said she lived in "frustration" among a conservative-leaning Supreme Court, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News Digital</a> previously reported."I live in frustration. And as you heard, every loss truly traumatizes me in my stomach and in my heart. But I have to get up the next morning and keep on fighting," Sotomayor said.

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content: Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan called on Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
 to retire on Monday so that President Biden could nominate another liberal justice
 to replace her, as former President Trump maintains leads in swing states ahead
 of the 2024 election.CNN host Jake Tapper asked the panelists during his
 show on Tuesday if they agreed with Hasan's argument. "With Joe Biden trailing Trump
 in several swing states and Democrats also in danger of losing their razor-thin
 majority in the Senate, are we really prepared for history to repeat itself? Sotomayor
 will turn 70 in June," Hasan wrote in a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/01/for-the-sake-of-all-of-us-sonia-sotomayor-needs-to-retire-from-the-us-supreme-court"
 target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">column for The Guardian.</a>"I have
 PTSD from 2020, I think the Democrats didn‘t learn lessons. Look, what are we talking
 about, abortion rights. How did that happen? Dobbs, how did the Florida decision
 happen today? DeSantis appointed five of the seven judges. Republicans are very
 good at stacking courts and getting their people on courts and thinking strategically
 about filling courts. Democrats aren't very good at seeing the power of the Supreme
 Court," Hasan told the other CNN panelists."And that’s why I worry. I worry
 that, why would you want to repeat history? Why take the risk? You have a Democratic
 president and a Democratic Senate, and you have a justice who is about to turn 70,"
 he said.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sotomayor-describes-sense-despair-following-dobbs-abortion-ruling"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">SOTOMAYOR DESCRIBES SENSE OF ‘DESPAIR’ FOLLOWING
 DOBBS ABORTION RULING</a>CNN's Eva Mckend said she had really only
 heard calls from Hasan and Democrats widely have not been pushing Sotomayor to step
 down. She said she wasn't "so sure" about Sotomayor and argued it was a personal
 choice. <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/top-democrats-wont-join-calls-justice-sotomayor-retire-still-fear-ruth-rcna145912"
 target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">NBC News reported</a> Wednesday that top
 Democrats would not be joining in on calls for the justice to retire. Asked
 about it during a press briefing on Monday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre
 said it would be a "personal choice" for Sotomayor. Hasan pushed back on
 the idea that it's a personal choice during his CNN appearance and said it shouldn't
 be.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sotomayor-live-frustration-supreme-court"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">SOTOMAYOR SAYS ‘I LIVE IN FRUSTRATION’ ON
 SUPREME COURT</a>"It shouldn‘t be a personal choice. The U.S. Supreme
 Court is one of the only supreme courts in a democratic world that has lifetime
 tenure. It’s mad, England doesn‘t have it. Belgium doesn‘t have it. Spain doesn‘t
 have it. Australia New Zealand, you either have term limits or you have a 70 retirement
 age. What are people doing in their 80s on the Supreme Court? Or running for president,
 some might ask," he said. "Biden, elected Democrats, and liberals and progressives
 across the board should be both publicly and privately encouraging Sotomayor to
 consider what she wants her legacy to be, to remember what happened with RBG, and
 to not take any kind of gamble with the future of our democracy," Hasan argued in
 his column.Journalist and podcast host Josh Barro said in January that he
 was "surprised" <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/justice-sotoymayor-should-consider-whether-time-step-down-says-journalist"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sotomayor hasn't "retired,"</a> as someone who is
 concerned about the balance of the court. Barro also wrote an op-ed calling on her
 to step down."It seems like that – it would be the right time strategically
 for her to step down in favor of somebody younger if she's very concerned about
 the political balance on the court," he said in January.Sotomayor spoke at
 the University of California Berkley Law school in January and said she lived in
 "frustration" among a conservative-leaning Supreme Court, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News Digital</a> previously reported."I
 live in frustration. And as you heard, every loss truly traumatizes me in my stomach
 and in my heart. But I have to get up the next morning and keep on fighting," Sotomayor
 said.
summary: Justice Sonia Sotomayor is facing another call from a liberal journalist
 to retire from the Supreme Court, so that Biden can appoint another liberal justice
 to the bench.
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