Notorious RBG has cancer again.

[Conager]

Where is Rory to start the death-watch countdown? Oh, right.

I don't like her politics but she's a decent human being with a good sense of humor and a very good Supreme Court Justice or justifiable legend.

The Republicans will cand and let the Dems have input on her replacement who will be, no doubt, horrific as a jurist

 

[HisArpy]

I disagree that she's been a "good supreme court justice".

Too often she has let her personal beliefs color her opinions on law. Often to the detriment of the rule of law and our society. Her refusal to step down in the face of her deteriorating health that is leading to her inability to actually BE a Supreme Court Justice sitting in her chair in the courtroom is just one example of where RBG puts RBG first and everyone/everything second.

 

[Bad_Egg]

True.

I disagree that she's been a "good supreme court justice".

Too often she has let her personal beliefs color her opinions on law. Often to the detriment of the rule of law and our society. Her refusal to step down in the face of her deteriorating health that is leading to her inability to actually BE a Supreme Court Justice sitting in her chair in the courtroom is just one example of where RBG puts RBG first and everyone/everything second.

.....

 

[surdeep]

So she needs to stay alive for 5 months or 5 years.

Is there a pool?

 

[Rightguide]

I disagree that she's been a "good supreme court justice".

Too often she has let her personal beliefs color her opinions on law. Often to the detriment of the rule of law and our society. Her refusal to step down in the face of her deteriorating health that is leading to her inability to actually BE a Supreme Court Justice sitting in her chair in the courtroom is just one example of where RBG puts RBG first and everyone/everything second.

When she started justifying her decisions with references to international law, she forever failed her judicial oath.

 

[HisArpy]

So she needs to stay alive for 5 months or 5 years.

Is there a pool?

IMO, no matter who wins this November, next year the President will be nominating a new SCOTUS justice.

 

[Conager]

Can't wait for the howls when the late RBG is replaced by ACB.

 

[DeluxAuto]

Can't wait for the howls when the late RBG is replaced by ACB.

You down with OPP? Other People's Prius'.

 

[Conager]

They thought Scalia for Garland was reasonable, so Ginsberg for Barrett is fine.

Willard Romney will fuck it up, though.

 

[RobDownSouth]

They thought Scalia for Garland was reasonable, so Ginsberg for Barrett is fine.

Willard Romney will fuck it up, though.

Murowitz of Alaska said today she won't vote until after the inauguration.

Lindsay Graham swore in 2018 he would not vote for a replacement Justice in 2020 "after the primaries have started".

 

[HisArpy]

Murowitz of Alaska said today she won't vote until after the inauguration.

Lindsay Graham swore in 2018 he would not vote for a replacement Justice in 2020 "after the primaries have started".

Any Republican who decides to sit on their hands in order to appease the Left will lose their primaries in 2022. There are 2, Merkowitz in one of them, who are in danger of that happening right now.

 

[Conager]

Obama and Schumer said the Senate should do their job, confirm the President's pick!

 

[Conager]

Presidential hopeful Joe Biden:

"So now I hear all this talk about the Biden rule. It's frankly ridiculous. There is no Biden rule. It doesn't exist. There's only one rule I ever followed on the Judiciary Committee; that was the Constitution's clear rule of the advice and consent. Article Two of the Constitution clearly states, whenever there is a vacancy in one of the Court's created by the Constitution itself, the Supreme Court of the United States, the president shall -- not may -- the president shall appoint someone to fill the vacancy with the advice and consent of the United States Senate. And advice and consent includes consulting and voting!"

I realize that four years ago was a confusingly long time ago for Slow Joe, but he seems to have forgotten entirely about his emphatic insistence that the president has a duty to Nominate and the Senate must vote.

 

[Conager]

Asked if the Senate should approve s new Justice in an election year:

“That’s their job. There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.” Ruth Bader Ginsburg 2016

 

[SpeareChucker]

It all depends on who controls the Presidency and the Senate.
Assuming that there are minimal Republican defections, this is
a done deal; McConnell can run roughshod in the Harry Reid model,
furthermore, the Left is signaling that they are, indeed going to come
completely unhinged for this spectacle and that is going to help Trump with
the voter in the middle and the undecided as they witness the character assassination
of a good woman...

The Left does not own the RGB seat -- elections have consequences.

RGB did a lot of good things for women's rights, but now it's time
to get back to Justices who do not try to make the law from the bench.

If you want the laws changed, get your Congress back to being activist
and stop asking the courts to do the job of the Congress
that is afraid of its own shadow and being voted out.

 

[bellisarius]

It all depends on who controls the Presidency and the Senate.
Assuming that there are minimal Republican defections, this is
a done deal; McConnell can run roughshod in the Harry Reid model,
furthermore, the Left is signaling that they are, indeed going to come
completely unhinged for this spectacle and that is going to help Trump with
the voter in the middle and the undecided as they witness the character assassination
of a good woman...

The Left does not own the RGB seat -- elections have consequences.

RGB did a lot of good things for women's rights, but now it's time
to get back to Justices who do not try to make the law from the bench.

If you want the laws changed, get your Congress back to being activist
and stop asking the courts to do the job of the Congress
that is afraid of its own shadow and being voted out.

I neither mourn nor celebrate her death, we all go that way eventually. And while she did do some things well, and actually stepped up to smack down some of Obama's more egregious EO's, in the end her hubris brought us to this point in history.

The fact is that she should have stepped down in 2012 allowing Obama to replace her with another "the Constitution is a living document" type of judge. In the end she put herself before the "movement" she supported.

 

[SpeareChucker]

I neither mourn nor celebrate her death, we all go that way eventually. And while she did do some things well, and actually stepped up to smack down some of Obama's more egregious EO's, in the end her hubris brought us to this point in history.

The fact is that she should have stepped down in 2012 allowing Obama to replace her with another "the Constitution is a living document" type of judge. In the end she put herself before the "movement" she supported.

I agree. Especially if she was that concerned about her team/polity holding the seat.

I just saw a clip of President Trump promising that his pick would be a woman.
I simply cannot wait to watch the Democrats go full-throttle on a woman
right before the election, and knowing that they are going to lose
this seat, they are promising, elect us and we will!

... pack the court.

That's going to win over the middle too...
It's not a very radical idea.

 

[RobDownSouth]

I don't think the Democrats should "pack the court" when they regain control of the Presidency, House and Senate.

They should instead CUT the number of Supreme Court seats down from the current bloated nine seats to the original number of seven seats, which Congress has the legal right to do.

That would mean the two most junior "justices" would be out.

Buh bye Kavanaugh
Buh bye last minute Trump confirmation

 

[SpeareChucker]

So protestors have descended upon McConnell's home in Kentucky.



That's just so wrong. It's not, in my opinion, the right way
to engage in your right because his family
has a right to privacy...

 

[RobDownSouth]

So protestors have descended upon McConnell's home in Kentucky.



That's just so wrong. It's not, in my opinion, the right way
to engage in your right because his family
has a right to privacy...

Right to privacy?
Weren't you banhammered for posting Luke's personal information publicly here? or was that Queerbait? All the doxxing that goes on around here, I lose track of who's doxxing who?

 

[SpeareChucker]

It's following me around now; I wounded its fragile pride
with an honest assessment of its motives...



[for it, not me, I'm all ]

 

[BrokenBarbie]

In other news, RBG sent in three mail in ballots yesterday...

 

[SpeareChucker]

In other news, RBG sent in three mail in ballots yesterday...

OK

That's two I've laughed at.


I am simply the worst of mankind...

 

[RobDownSouth]

I am simply the worst of mankind...

Be best.

 

[coati]

If you want the laws changed, get your Congress back to being activist
and stop asking the courts to do the job of the Congress
that is afraid of its own shadow and being voted out.

Your wish, as stated above, shall come true.

The majority of Americans are sick and tired of being bullied by a system that was built upon appeasing rural states. The minority-elected Trump and minority-elected control of the Senate have sown so much conflict and chaos that an even greater majority than that voting for Hillary Clinton in 2016 will run the "New Confederates" out of office. Big changes will result, over the next decade.

In the words of Leonard Cohen, democracy is coming to the U.S.A.