Aileen Cannon Should Replace Sonia Sotomayor, Former Gorsuch Clerk Says [Video]

Following the results of this year’s presidential election, a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch said on Friday that U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon should replace Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on the bench.

Following Donald Trump‘s electoral victory earlier this week, in which he won the popular vote and the Electoral College, there have been various calls on social media as well as, according to NBC News reporter Sahil Kapur “one official in the Biden administration,” urging Sotomayor to resign from the bench so that President Joe Biden, with support from a Democrat-majority Senate, would be able to appoint a new justice ahead of Trump’s second term.

Sotomayor, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009, is the first Latina and the third woman to serve on the Supreme Court. At 70, she is the oldest Democrat-appointed justice on the Court, which has a 6-3 conservative supermajority.

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