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As someone who doesn’t think like you, why do you think Sotomayor is great? I get Kagan, with whom I usually disagree on constitutional issues, but who is a brilliant lawyer. Same with RBG. But I don’t see that in Sotomayor. So what is it that you love?

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I very much doubt that SCOTUS would overturn gay marriage. Gay marriage seems to be pretty well settled. Unlike abortion which had been contentious since the start of it'd poorly reasoned opinion. Even RBG noted this.

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I'm a medical student not a medical professional, but Type 1 Diabetes definitely reduces life expectancy and although keeping blood sugar controlled can help a type 1 diabetic live longer they still have a reduced life expectancy compared to someone without it. 25% seems conservative, as a 2015 study (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2088852) showed that the average age of death for a woman with T1DM was 68, 12 years earlier than a woman without.

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Why are dem nominees so old? R’s always make sure to put young and dumb judges in for lasting power.

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Treating people as instrumentalities who should make life decisions to achieve your goals is the opposite of progressivism.

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As I understand it age at death is not correlated with parents age at death.

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