Justice Sonia Sotomayor has no plans to step down from her position on the U.S. Supreme Court before the end of President Joe Biden's term, according to ABC News sources

Despite urgent speculation in liberal legal circles and some talk among Democratic senators about potentially pushing Justice Sonia Sotomayor outright to resign, sources close to the senior liberal justice have told ABC News that she is not expected to be in the middle Resigning during the term will affect the 2024 election results.

Sotomayor, 70, is in good health and participates vigorously in the court's work. She is well below the average retirement age of 75 and her diabetes, which she has suffered from since childhood, remains well treated.

Judges are appointed for life and have generally bristled at public pressure campaigns to resign. Among other things, caving in to public pressure could further politicize the court's image and would likely be a major problem, several court analysts said.

Sotomayor, the first Latina to serve on the Supreme Court bench, has embraced her role as a key counterweight to the conservative majority and made clear she still has much to fight for.

Speaking at Harvard in May, Sotomayor, who was nominated to the court by then-President Barack Obama, said that “every loss really traumatizes me in my stomach and in my heart” but that she chooses to “keep fighting.”

“There are moments when I feel deeply sad,” she said at Harvard. “And there are moments when, yes, even I feel despair. We all do that. But you have to own it. You have to accept it. You have to shed the tears, and then you have to wipe them away and get up and fight a few more.”

Still, many Democrats are devastated by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death from liver cancer in late 2020 at age 87, giving then-President Donald Trump the opportunity to nominate his third justice to the Supreme Court. Ginsburg had been in poor health for years and missed the chance to retire early and let Obama nominate her successor.

Ousting Sotomayor from office, assuming she agrees, could be politically risky, and a successful confirmation before Trump's inauguration on January 20, 2025 would be logistically impossible. This reality appears to have sunk in among some key democratic actors.

On NBC's “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Sen. Bernie Sanders said he “doesn't think that's a sensible approach” when asked whether he thinks Sotomayor should be pressured by Democrats to resign.