RIP RBG
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- sarahfailin
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/1…
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the demure firebrand who in her 80s became a legal, cultural and feminist icon, died Friday. The Supreme Court announced her death, saying the cause was complications from metastatic cancer of the pancreas.
- garbage2
We are so fucked.
- It's going to get so much worse. I've looked for jobs in other countries. It's not pretty. I'm afraid I might have to go down with this former democracy.CyBrainX
- I called this out in some earlier post. RBG passes, Mitch rams another unqualified shitstain through, and further difficulties in expatriation because..garbage
- ..Americans are literally toxic.garbage
- BusterBoy4
Get fucked 2020.
I feel so sorry that she spent the best part of the last 4 years hanging on for dear life hoping to see out this Trump term...yet fell with the finish line in site and sadly he was the last President she saw.
- dorf2
I sank when I heard the news.
Her stature will never be forgotten regardless of what happens now.
- utopian3
RBG's body is still warm.
- McConnell is pure political scum.BusterBoy
- McConnell is the biggest piece of shitfooler
- There isn't going to be a fight.There'll be outrage but McConnell has the same majority and lack of fucks about anything he did with Gorsuch in 2016.CyBrainX
- After this soon to be Machiavellian maneuver is made, McConnell's name will be tied in infamy with Trump's.brandonp
- On the bright side, McConnell could easily lose his seat in November.CyBrainX
- Mitch McConnell got picked on all his life and is now addicted to power. He’s the kind of guy who pulls shit like this then laughs about it with rich pricksnb
- colin_s-2
kinda interesting to read all this shit about legacy when her actual legacy may end up being her great final and foolish misstep to not retire.
like, she may have set the judiciary back as much as she brought it forward by not retiring under obama's first term (at which point she had cancer twice and broken three ribs in a fall) when they had a massive liberal majority across the electorate.
whatever, though. mitch mcconnell is fucking salivating right now. even though the GOP got lampooned in 2018 after the kavanaugh debacle, in the end that dude is on the court and they didn't lose the senate over it.
so yeah i mean. "grind til you die" and all.
- This is why the left needs to show up and vote...and hopefully they will after this.yuekit
- People like McConnell weren't dropped into the government by magic, they are there because old people and conservatives vote in every election.yuekit
- Also interestingly Ginsburg was not the most left-wing Supreme Court justice, Sonio Sotomayor (appointed by Obama) is.yuekit
- So things can get better, conceivably we could have a MORE left SC a year from now. But unfortunately in our system it really does come down to votingyuekit
- Got to love a system whose sole protection against falling into unrestrained authoritarianism and dismantling of citizen's rights was an 87yo invalid.face_melter
- The system sucks, but good luck changing the entire system when people can't even be bothered to check a box on a piece of paper once every two years.yuekit
- Your point is somewhat taken but if there was no electoral college, Clarence Thomas would be the only conservative justice on the court.CyBrainX
- Thank God not ruled by a few cities that dont represent the majority of the us...deathboy
- Phrenological-12
Interesting. Could be the end of Roe v Wade soon.
I reckon this will mean Trump wins EC and PV.
- The end of Roe vs Wade, yes, possibly. Trump will be less likely to win because of this.The GOP is will be hurling their last daggers at democracy.CyBrainX
- before going into hiding like the sithCyBrainX
- Sure, that COULD happen if you ignored facts and demographics of the electorate.FNP14
- Not to mention the massive wave of democratic donations that have come in since Friday.FNP14
- Somewhere to the tune of 100 million from small-dollar donors for ActBlue since Friday 8pmFNP14
- And that's just one organization. Who knows what the stats are on votesaveamerica and all the other individual senate campaigns.FNP14
- nb4
I completely respect her decision to ignore Obama’s pressure to step down. Even though it didn’t work out in the end, politically speaking, she did get four more years as a judge. That’s a lot.
I also don’t agree that presidents should try to influence judges to step down as part of political strategy. This is a dangerous precedent. I love Obama, and I get it, but I was disappointed when he did this.
While a president may try to influence the court, all judges should be telling presidents and congressmen to mind their fucking business.
- Something tells me RBG did tell Obama to mind his business in the end. I'm sure it was done with subtlety and class that this country has quickly lost.CyBrainX
- ten bucks says she wanted to retire under clinton as a gesture towards women's progress and instead this happenscolin_s
- Totally agree about presidents not attempting to influence justices.MondoMorphic
- I dont agree, mostly because a life long seat at this level is not right. Everyone who works for gov must have a limited term for several reasons.Beeswax
- I also didnt know that Obama asked her this, she should have accepted. What high principle made her to reject that? Youi have don your duty for years and nowBeeswax
- let it go. Knowing that she didnt have ver many years ahead, she should have put her country first, instead of her seat.Beeswax
- Anyways I'm not an American and doesnt know the details of their politics but my basic values tell me that she had done wrong with that decision.Beeswax
- No one should be in a position for life. There's just too much pressure and negativity around that.formed
- No doubt Trumpster will now try to push to be in power for life.formed
- @beeswax I’m not sure you get the role of judges in America. They don’t “work for the government.” They absolutely sit outside the president’s influence.nb
- @nb I get that. Still judiciary system should not have lifelong positions as well.Beeswax
- Term limits would be good, sure. But judges should not be swayed by presidents or step down to help a party.nb
- There’s a massive difference between term limits and the act stepping down to further a political goal.nb
- Completely agree w/nb here... a "lifetime" appointment ends when you die (if you want). No preezy should be so bold as to ask you to step down...PonyBoy
- ... 'for the party' when your entire existence requires you be impartial (especially politically). A classy woman to the end. RIP, RBG. <3PonyBoy
- nb5
RIP RBG. You were the real deal, a true patriot. You’ll be missed.
- whatthefunk2
- Psalms 37:29 The righteous will inherit the land and dwell in it forevergrafician
- 28: For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.grafician
- יהי זכרה ברוךrenderedred
- With all due respect, this is the biggest piece of bullshit I've ever heard. Am I supposed to be relieved that the US is one more giant step closer to fascism?CyBrainX
- imbecile8
- 'Proof of sterilisation to obtain/retain emplyment'
What ... ? O_O
Was that actually a thing?!Continuity - I mean, the rest of this list is just fucking disgusting and shameful. But, this sterilisation thing really is next-level savage.Continuity
- https://www.washingt…imbecile
- not to make light of it but I was almost expecting to see •reduced the width of beating stick from 4" to no wider than a thumb aka the"rule of thumb"_niko
- and her replacement has a chance to reverse all of that.CyBrainX
- Memesdeathboy
- 'Proof of sterilisation to obtain/retain emplyment'
- nb3
“Dissents speak to a future age. It's not simply to say, ‘My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way.’ But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view. So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.”
- Ruth B. Ginsburg
- deathboy-7
This will be an I retesting pivot for msm. Riots no more. Coronavirus no more. Climate change no more. Supreme court justice is everybody ng we need to worry about. Trump ha timing let him pick according to bidens own thinking. Just gonna be great to see the narrative pivot and how it's handled
- OBBTKN1
By Sienkiewicz:
- sarahfailin1
2016, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas): “It has been 80 years since a Supreme Court vacancy was nominated and confirmed in an election year. There is a long tradition that you don’t do this in an election year.”
2018, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): “If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump’s term, and the primary process has started, we’ll wait to the next election.”
2016, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.): “I don’t think we should be moving on a nominee in the last year of this president’s term - I would say that if it was a Republican president.”
2016, Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.): “The very balance of our nation’s highest court is in serious jeopardy. As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I will do everything in my power to encourage the president and Senate leadership not to start this process until we hear from the American people.”
2016, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa): “A lifetime appointment that could dramatically impact individual freedoms and change the direction of the court for at least a generation is too important to get bogged down in politics. The American people shouldn’t be denied a voice.”
2016, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.): “The campaign is already under way. It is essential to the institution of the Senate and to the very health of our republic to not launch our nation into a partisan, divisive confirmation battle during the very same time the American people are casting their ballots to elect our next president.”
2016, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.): “In this election year, the American people will have an opportunity to have their say in the future direction of our country. For this reason, I believe the vacancy left open by Justice Antonin Scalia should not be filled until there is a new president.”
2016, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.): “The Senate should not confirm a new Supreme Court justice until we have a new president.”
2016, Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Col.): “I think we’re too close to the election. The president who is elected in November should be the one who makes this decision.”
2016, Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio): “I believe the best thing for the country is to trust the American people to weigh in on who should make a lifetime appointment that could reshape the Supreme Court for generations. This wouldn’t be unusual. It is common practice for the Senate to stop acting on lifetime appointments during the last year of a presidential term, and it’s been nearly 80 years since any president was permitted to immediately fill a vacancy that arose in a presidential election year.”
2016, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.): “I strongly agree that the American people should decide the future direction of the Supreme Court by their votes for president and the majority party in the U.S. Senate.”
“The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.”
Mitch McConnell, March 2016- RBG on the subject (Garland 2016): "There's nothing in the Constitution that says the president stops being the president in his last year, That's their job."PonyBoy
- RBG was correct... those dipshits you're quoting, sarah—unfortunately they're full of shit. It's Trump's job, not 'the american people' to pick.PonyBoy
- We actually have zero say... there is to be no public hearings... no senate / congressional jerk sessions... just Trump.
:/PonyBoy
- Ramanisky26
This level of disrespect is 1,000% on brand.
- wowimbecile
- twatsPonyBoy
- The party of family values.utopian
- Wow. No class. Republicans are shitty people, even the educated ones.nb
- Which bot made this?jaylarson
- They do it for the outrage, ignore it & its their failuremoldero
- ^ and if they win ?i_was
- Lol it reminds me of the Steve irwin halloween costumes and too soon ?.... Weight sexy ginsburg outfits!deathboy
- Winter.com is the official site of the National Republican Senatorial Committeenb
- I meant winred.comnb
- TBH when libs did it for RGB it was just as stupidcolin_s
- TBH, you offer nothing of substance or use to any conversation.imbecile
- any sexy costume for halloween though yet? money pot!deathboy
