, who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes as a child, was accompanied by a medic during a February 2018 trip she made to South Florida,Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett, left, and Sonia Sotomayor speak with retired U.S. Appeals Court Judge Thomas Griffith, not shown, during a panel discussion at the winter meeting of the National Governors Association, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, in Washington.
Marshals Service records further revealed that in 2021 and 2022, Sotomayor went on at least four trips where her baggage included “medical gear” or included a redacted description of “baggage/medical supplies.” “It’s quite possible the Democrats will lose control of the Senate in the next election, and who knows how long it could be before there’s a next opportunity for a Democratic president to make a new appointment into the seat she sits in. Justice Scalia stuck around through the 2006 election, did not make it to 2017, which would have been the next opportunity,” Barro
Before Biden’s 2022 appointment of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the left-leaning group Demand Justice ran a campaign attempting to pressure then-Justice Stephen Breyer to retire from the high court in order to pave the way for Jackson, who became the first black woman to sit on the nine-member bench.