Sen. Bernie Sanders threw cold water on the prospect of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, 70, stepping down so that President Joe Biden can nominate a younger replacement before he leaves office.
In making the statement on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Nov. 10, Sanders, an independent from Vermont who caucuses with Senate Democrats, became the first U.S. senator to comment publicly on the topic since President-elect Donald Trump, a Republican, clinched an electoral victory last week. As a result of the election, Democrats are also poised to lose their majority in the Senate, which decides whether to confirm justices, when the new Congress meets in early January.
