Reply #192: It is not so much that she is too old in the abstract. It is that Dummya's appointees were so

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young. Ideally, Obama's appointees would be at least as young as Roberts and Alito were, if not younger, so as to have a good actuarial likelihood of outlasting them by as much as possible. However, Sotomayor is not only older than they were when appointed but is also a Type I Diabetic. In her actuarial favor is her gender, though.