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 in a chamber Democrats control by a single vote. He told the Washington Examiner that he would not vote to confirm any Supreme Court justice who cannot attract Republican support.
Manchin is not the only Democratic obstacle. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), a Democrat-turned-independent senator, has stood in the way of Democratic priorities, as have several swing state Democrats running for reelection.
