Liberals face Manchin roadblock to replacing Sotomayor on Supreme Court - Washington Examiner

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Liberals face Manchin roadblock to replacing Sotomayor on Supreme Court - Washington Examiner

Senate Democrats have rebuffed the Left’s attempts to give Justice Sonia Sotomayor the Ruth Bader Ginsburg treatment. Members of the Judiciary Committee, tasked with approving her eventual replacement, have broadly dismissed a pressure campaign to send her into retirement and appoint a younger justice. But it is Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), progressives’ arch nemesis in the Senate, who is making the calls for her to resign mathematically implausible…