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Democrats Push Sotomayor to Resign From Supreme Court

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/democrats-supreme-court-sonia-sotomayor/2024/11/08/id/1187246/

Democrat U.S. senators and other party members are mulling convincing Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to resign so President Joe Biden can replace her with another leftist judge before President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20.

The 70-year-old Sotomayor, nominated by then-President Barack Obama in 2009, is the oldest Democrat-appointed justice on the court.

She's also a life-long diabetic. In 2018, paramedics were called to her home after the justice suffered "symptoms of low blood sugar."

Lawmakers long have known about Sotomayor's health issues, but as with Biden's cognitive issues, Democrats refrained from admitting potential problems caused by the condition.

Now, Democrats see Sotomayor's situation as a way to seat someone on the high court before Trump takes office with Republicans in control of the Senate. The GOP won a majority in the chamber during Tuesday's elections.

A Democrat senator told Politico that the topic has been discussed by members, who realize making an attempt to replace Sotomayor would be "a risky play," according to the outlet.

Also, no senator appears to be willing to be the first person who publicly calls for Sotomayor to step down.

However, Democrats have discussed possible replacements, with D.C. Circuit Judge J. Michelle Childs being mentioned.

Biden considered Childs before nominating Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace former Justice Stephen Breyer. Seen as moderate, Childs was vetted and even received backing by a few GOP senators such as Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.

Even before all the states were called on Tuesday night, some Democrats were suggesting that Biden be given the chance to nominate one more Supreme Court justice.

"Sotomayor should retire tomorrow and let the lame duck Senate confirm her replacement," Miranda Yaver, an assistant professor of health policy and management at the University of Pittsburgh, posted Tuesday night on X.

"This would probably be a good day for Sotomayor to retire," David Dayen, editor of The American Prospect, wrote on X.

Time, though, is not on Democrats' side when it comes to trying to replace Sotomayor in little more than two months.

"We would have to have assurances from any shaky senator that they would back a nominee in the lame duck, because what do you do if she announces she's going to step down and then [West Virginia independent Sen. Joe] Manchin doesn't support her and then [Republican Sens.] Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski back off and say they're not going to support a new nominee?" one source told Politico. "Do you just rescind that [Sotomayor resignation] letter?"

The outlet added that Democrats might be better off focusing on confirming lower-court judges, filling vacancies Trump wouldn't be able to fill.

Sotomayor is the first Latina and the third woman to serve on the Supreme Court.

San Francisco now has a Jew mayor.

San Francisco's First Black Female Mayor Concedes to Levi Strauss Heir

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/election-san-francisco-mayor/2024/11/08/id/1187241/

San Francisco’s first Black female mayor, London Breed, conceded the race for mayor to Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie on Thursday, pledging a smooth transition as he takes over the job.

The Associated Press has not yet declared a winner because tens of thousand of ballots have not yet been counted and added to the ranked choice voting calculations.

Breed, who was raised by her grandmother in public housing, could not overcome deep voter discontent and was trailing Lurie, a philanthropist and anti-poverty nonprofit founder.

“At the end of the day, this job is bigger than any one person and what matters is that we keep moving this City forward,” Breed said, adding that she had called Lurie to congratulate him. “I know we are both committed to improving this City we love.”

While San Francisco’s streets have been cleaner and homeless tents much harder to find in recent months, Breed’s fellow Democratic challengers on the campaign trail repeatedly hammered her administration for doing too little, too late as homeless tent encampments, open-air drug use and brazen retail theft proliferated during her six years in office.

Political analyst Dan Schnur said there’s been a demand nationwide for change in leadership.

“London Breed didn’t create the crime and homelessness crises, but voters blamed her for not fixing them,” he said.

She faced four big-name challengers, including two San Francisco supervisors and a former interim mayor.

But voters flocked to Lurie, 47, a city native from a storied family who pledged to bring accountability and public service back to City Hall. He is the founder of Tipping Point Community, which says it has invested more than $400 million since 2005 in programs to help people with housing, education and early childhood.

“I’m deeply grateful to my incredible family, campaign team and every San Franciscan who voted for accountability, service, and change,” Lurie said in a statement. “No matter who you supported in this election, we stand united in the fight for San Francisco’s future and a safer and more affordable city for all.”

Lurie pumped nearly $9 million of his own money into his first-time bid for mayor, which drew criticism from Breed and other opponents. But he said that as a political outsider, he needed to introduce himself to voters and in the end, some voters said they liked that Lurie’s financial wealth shielded him from being beholden to special interests.

Lurie is an heir to the Levi Strauss & Co. fortune through his mother, Mimi Haas, who wed Peter Haas when Daniel was a child. Peter Haas, a great-grandnephew of Levi Strauss, was a longtime CEO of the iconic clothing company who died in 2005.

Both the Levi’s name and Haas family philanthropic foundations are deeply embedded in San Francisco’s history and identity.

Lurie’s father,Brian Lurie, is a rabbi and longtime former executive director of the San Francisco-based Jewish Community Federation.

Breed won election as mayor in June 2018 to serve out the remainder of Mayor Ed Lee’s term.

She was reelected in 2019 to a full term that has lasted five years instead of the typical four, after voters changed the election calendar to line up with presidential contests.