Democrats' plan to force Sonia Sotomayor retirement unlikely to succeed

With Democrats losing control of the Senate, some on the left have been discussing forcing Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor into retiring while Democrats still control the Senate.

Democrats want to replace Sotomayor now while they have control of the Senate and the White House, both of which they will lose in January. However, it appears that she has no plans of complying with this plan and will not retire early.

The Senate is reconvening for a lame-duck session to finish business before Trump is sworn in, and the GOP assumes the Senate majority. Democrats have a very small window to get Sotomayor out and her replacement in.

This movement to push Sotomayor out was born out of the trauma Democrats experienced when the late Ruth Bader Ginsberg refused to retire under former President Barack Obama.

She would end up dying in office while Trump was in office during his first term allowing him to replace her and shift the Supreme Court to the right.

Democrats are now afraid that with four years in office, Trump could replace Sotomayor as well as the two oldest Republican justices making the court a decisive 7-2 conservative lean for years to come.