CNN —Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has made clear she has no plans to step down, according to people close to her, despite calls from some on the left that President Joe Biden should try to name a successor before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
“She’s in great health, and the court needs her now more than ever,” said one person close to the justice.
Some progressives have suggested Sotomayor, the most senior liberal on the conservative Supreme Court, should step down so that Biden could try to name a replacement in the short window before Trump takes office in January.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said Sunday that he doesn’t think Sotomayor should step down from the court.
In May, Sotomayor told an audience at Harvard University that she sometimes cries after the court hands down its decisions.
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