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5-4

Retire, Sonia [TEASER]

5-4

Prologue Projects

News Commentary, News, Government

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Listen, we're not going to do the whole merch thing again, but it's time to hang up the robe and hit the beach. Or: another episode where we call for Sonia Sotomayor to retire.


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5-4 is presented by Prologue Projects. Rachel Ward is our producer. Leon Neyfakh and Andrew Parsons provide editorial support. Our researcher is Jonathan DeBruin, and our website was designed by Peter Murphy. Our artwork is by Teddy Blanks at Chips NY, and our theme song is by Spatial Relations.


Follow the show at @fivefourpod on most platforms. On Twitter, find Peter @The_Law_Boy and Rhiannon @AywaRhiannon.



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0:00.0

Look you want to play blind man go walk with a shepherd but me my eyes are wide fucking open

0:04.8

What the fuck does that mean? I mean that's it for me from here on end you consider my ass retired

0:10.7

Jesus Christ. Don't blast me.

0:13.0

God damn my do-

0:14.0

I said don't do that.

0:17.0

Hey everyone, this is Leon from Prolog Projects.

0:21.0

On this episode of 5-4, Peter, Rianen, and Michael are once again calling

0:26.6

for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to retire. It's not a comment on Sotomayor's

0:31.8

credentials or her talent. It's about a comment on Sotomayor's credentials or her talent.

0:33.4

It's about protecting a liberal seat on the court and not repeating the mistake

0:37.8

the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made before her death in 2020.

0:41.2

Over the past month, calls for Sotomayor to retire have increased.

0:45.6

She's 69 years old. Her health has been in the spotlight due to her lifelong diabetes

0:50.0

and they want her to retire this year so that President Biden and a Democratic Senate

0:54.2

can replace her without the possibility of her leaving the court under a Republican.

0:58.6

But plenty of Democrats say she should keep her seat as long as she wants, even though it carries the risk of repeating

1:05.0

the folly that replaced RBG with ACB.

1:09.0

This is 5 to 4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks.

1:15.0

Welcome to 5-4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have caused our nation to slowly

1:23.4

become steadily less cool and relevant like Coachella. I'm Peter, I'm here with

1:28.8

Rianen. Hi. And Michael. A nation and a music festival in decline. That's right. I don't care if celebrities still go. I don't think it's that cool anymore. When the talk of the town is Doja Cat. I can't do it. I can't do it.

1:48.0

Yeah, all the influencers coming up at Coachella right now on my social media, like I'm just like this is just like kind of sad like I don't know like

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