Sotomayor to sit out Colorado 'faithless electors' Supreme Court case

Baca, a former state senator, has been Sotomayor's friend for decades. Baca's sister and brother-in-law lived for a time in Sotomayor's New York apartment, and Baca herself had a prominent spot at the justice's Senate confirmation hearing.

Sotomayor's recusal is unlikely to make any practical difference. Even if the justices turned out to be divided 5-4 in the Colorado case, her absence would result in a 4-4 tie, meaning the outcome would have no legal significance; her participation in the other case would count, however, and it would be the controlling decision.

Good 👍

I don’t want a few overcrowded failing democratic cities determining the vote for the rest of the nation. Every state deserves representation

Posted twice a day for the past week. Let it GO.

how convenient -

Weird for a Supreme Court judge to throw a tantrum like this. Does she still get paid for not showing up to work? Can we impeach and remove her from the court?

America needs the Electoral College.

Maybe she’ll spend some time away from the food troft!

They shouldn’t be hearing cases involving “faithless electors”. They should be hearing a case for removing the electoral college!

Kavanaugh is friends with trump so he should sit out on case about trumps tax returns right?

Let see ... senators who declared they had no intention to be unbiased and others who were actually witnesses got to judge wether trump was guilty but this SCOTUS judge must recuse. Why even argue the merits when we know the outcome?

Read the article and she did the right thing. Not sure the outcome will be but I wish more would do the same.

Wtf

Hopefully this is a trend. Sit out all cases please, and thank you.

Popular vote should be the one to take the white house. Not a handful of people picking for millions of others.

WHY?!!!!!!

So we could end up with a tied opinion🤓

Amazing how the left wants to change a system that has worked since the beginning to ENSURE equally ... only bc the left wants power at only cost ...

Too bad... get her on the record against it somehow

That pesky old electoral college.

The electoral college is not going nowhere it's in the Constitution.

The Electoral College is already an unfair, BS system. Now Electors want to be able vote for whoever they want, INSTEAD OF HAVING TO VOTE FOR THE CANDIDATE WHO WON THE POPULAR VOTE IN THEIR STATE? If that's the case, then there's NO POINT in even having constituents vote. GTFOH🤬

You don’t see much integrity on the left. Do I believe she could judge the case objectively? No, but that’s because she doesn’t judge any case objectively. Even so. I do respect her for this decision. It is refreshing to see some integrity in DC.

Ethics? How dare she do that.

If anything there should be no electoral college.. But.. When it gets to the electoral college, you have to respect the will of the people.. They didn't vote for your personal choice, they voted an you represent that vote.. You personal opinions meaning nothing at that stage..

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