If you need more proof that the Democrat Party is in free fall following Donald Trump's massive win on Tuesday, look no further than their harebrained scheme to force a Supreme Court justice to retire before the GOP takes control of the Senate in January.

Democrats are facing some cold, hard truths this week, one of them being that they have lost control of the Senate. As of Friday morning, Republicans were assured of having at least 53 seats, with one race still to be called. This means that, come January, the GOP will be, in the words of an equally-panicky Politico, "revving up the old conveyor belt of conservative judicial nominees, tilting the courts further in their favor for decades."

Unbeknownst to the braintrust over at Politico, that's exactly what voters want. The idea that the political party who was just handed an overwhelming mandate for change by the American people would have the power to influence the judiciary is causing the left some serious distress. Someone should ask them how they feel now about packing the Supreme Court and eliminating the Senate filibuster.

One of the things the now-impotent Democrat Party thinks they can do to disrupt things before the 119th Congress is sworn into office on January 3, 2025, is a desperate, lame-duck attempt to affect the Supreme Court. And they have Justice Sonia Sotomayor in their sights.

Per Politico:

For Democrats, this is a hair-on-fire moment. And though the discourse in the media is presently dominated by recriminations about how this all happened, another arguably more urgent conversation is blowing up largely outside of public view: whether to push for 70-year-old Supreme Court Justice SONIA SOTOMAYOR to step down while Dems still have the power to approve her replacement.

Lest you think this is some sort of Tim Walz-esque, knee-jerk reaction by the left following their electoral thrashing, Politico says it "isn’t simply some flight of fancy happening among progressive activists online. It’s a conversation members of the Senate are actively engaged in."

Alrighty then.

The idea is such an incredibly bad one that nary a Democrat senator, even retiring ones, has stepped forward to publicly introduce the idea to the American public. But proponents of the plan see Sotomayor, who is 70 and has type 1 diabetes, as a political liability at a time when Democrats are losing their grip on power. It would be one last gasp of fast-dwindling influence to force a retirement on Sotomayor, something they failed to do with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in order to secure a far-left voice and vote on the Court for decades to come.

Voters have voted against this kind of leftist chicanery before. If you'll recall, one of the main reasons Donald Trump was first elected back in 2016 was the stomach-churning idea that Hillary Clinton, if elected, would be able to appointment multiple Supreme Court justices, which would adversely affect America possibly for generations.

Democrats have taken this convoluted path before. In 2022, the left harassed Justice Stephen Breyer into retiring after waging an intimidation campaign against him:

It was never a particularly subtle effort. Demand Justice, the far-left group dedicated to judicial nominations in the vast Arabella Advisors dark-money network, even launched a “Breyer Retire” campaign, complete with an online petition telling the justice to step down immediately and a billboard truck driving around the Supreme Court building to convey that message. And the day after the announcement, the same truck took a victory lap, thanking Breyer.

This led to the independent-minded Breyer being replaced by Ketanji Brown Jackson, a leftist who is so enmeshed in the liberal nonsense culture that she can't even define what it means to be a woman. 

Whether or not Democrats move forward with forcing Sotomayor into retirement remains to be seen, but one leftist judicial activist remarked, “Democrats are not going to win elections forever. They’re not going to be able to nominate Supreme Court justices indefinitely. They need to act when they have power.”