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Could Kamala Harris replace Sonia Sotomayor on Supreme Court?

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A CNN legal analyst suggested Vice President Kamala Harris could be nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court.Attorney Bakari Sellers, who was a Democratic member of the South Carolina House of Representatives for eight years, said that 70-year-old liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor could retire from the Supreme Court, allowing President Joe Biden to nominate Harris.Harris was San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general before being elected senator, and then vice president. While electing an attorney with no judicial experience to the court is unusual, it is not unprecedented.President Barack Obama nominated Elena Kagan as a Supreme Court justice, even though she had never been a judge. Chief Justice John Roberts served for two years on the Washington, D.C., appeals court before he was nominated. When four party-aligned independents are considered, Democrats currently have a 51-49 majority in the Senate, which votes by simple majority on presidential nominations to the Supre...