Former MSNBC host calls on Justice Sotomayor to step down from Supreme Court: 'Why take the risk?'

Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan called on Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to retire on Monday so that President Biden could nominate another liberal justice to replace her, as former President Trump maintains leads in swing states ahead of the 2024 election.

CNN host Jake Tapper asked the panelists during his show on Tuesday if they agreed with Hasan's argument. "With Joe Biden trailing Trump in several swing states and Democrats also in danger of losing their razor-thin majority in the Senate, are we really prepared for history to repeat itself? Sotomayor will turn 70 in June," Hasan wrote in a column for The Guardian.

"I have PTSD from 2020, I think the Democrats didn‘t learn lessons. Look, what are we talking about, abortion rights. How did that happen? Dobbs, how did the Florida decision happen today? DeSantis appointed five of the seven judges. Republicans are very good at stacking courts and getting their people on courts and thinking strategically about filling courts. Democrats aren't very good at seeing the power of the Supreme Court," Hasan told the other CNN panelists.

"And that’s why I worry. I worry that, why would you want to repeat history? Why take the risk? You have a Democratic president and a Democratic Senate, and you have a justice who is about to turn 70," he said.

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CNN's Eva Mckend said she had really only heard calls from Hasan and Democrats widely have not been pushing Sotomayor to step down. She said she wasn't "so sure" about Sotomayor and argued it was a personal choice.

NBC News reported Wednesday that top Democrats would not be joining in on calls for the justice to retire.

Asked about it during a press briefing on Monday,