She was completely lucid when I sat next to her at a dinner a few years ago. We spoke for at least an hour.
'Missing' seems like a stretch. 'Hasnt been seen in 6 months' is not true. Here she is last month. People hiding an elected officials mental condition should be criminally charged
I still think we need age and term limits...... But, BUT......lobbying for cash, must be eliminated at all costs, that alone is what is killing this country, the representatives do the lobbyists bidding not their constituents Lobbying is basically FOR SALE governance and is the biggest issue we face making it through to a better system. DD
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/justice-sotomayor-vs-the-court-packers-610d15b5?mod=hp_opin_pos_4 Justice Sotomayor vs. the Court Packers She thinks there’s no way to apply term limits to the sitting Justices. By The Editorial Board Aug. 20, 2025 5:19 pm ET Bad news for Democrats scheming to pack the Supreme Court: Even Justice Sonia Sotomayor thinks one of their big ideas is unconstitutional. This month an activist group called Fix the Court posted an audio tape of a 2024 talk Justice Sotomayor delivered in Switzerland. She sounded open, at least in the abstract, to the idea of term limits for the nine. “I think we may be the only country in the world that has life tenure,” she said. “We have had some very senior Justices who have probably been on the Court longer than they should have been.” Yet she also cited former Justice John Paul Stevens, who stepped down at 90. “It wasn’t because he had lost any mental acuity,” she said, and “our Court would have been the lesser if he had not been there.” But listen to this. “The problem with a term limit is how will they institute it?” Justice Sotomayor said. “I am promised my job for life, and that can’t be taken away constitutionally—I don’t believe even with a constitutional amendment—because you cannot have a retroactive law changing something that you’ve earned.” In other words, today’s Justices can stay as long as they like, “so you might not get the value of term limits.” She was careful to emphasize that she wasn’t endorsing any specific plan. “I have my own personal view,” Justice Sotomayor said, “but I do think that it’s an issue that Americans have to think about very closely.” Her candid read of the constitutional problem, though, is a damper on the left’s ambitions for court-packing. President Biden’s blue-ribbon commission on Supreme Court reform debated term limits, including whether Congress could impose them without a constitutional amendment. One idea was that Congress could pass a statute redefining the judicial job description, so “after eighteen years of service, Justices become Senior Justices and stop participating in the ordinary work of the Court.” That’s sleight of hand, and there’s no way it’s constitutional. But it’s nice to hear that Justice Sotomayor is among the skeptics. Appeared in the August 21, 2025, print edition as 'Justice Sotomayor vs. the Court Packers'.
