"I do think cooler heads will prevail, I hope sooner rather than later,” Ginsburg said. “The president is elected for four years not three years, so the power he has in year three continues into year four.”Maybe members of the Senate will wake up and appreciate that that’s how it should be.” - Ginsburg on Sept. 7, 2016
Ginsburg is quite clear on the constitutionality of this issue. In fact, she was in favor of it for Garland.
But now she is supposedly against it with her own replacement?!
Is she just a political partisan rather than a judge on the SCOTUS? Her unsolicited political comments about Trump a few years ago, along with her activist voting record suggest that this could be the case.
But, on the other hand, it seems more likely that the Dems made up a "last wish" story as a way to try to derail a nomination just long enough to try to win the next election and change it. We know from the Kavanaugh fiasco that these Democrats will literally say or do anything to avoid another SCOTUS appointment by Trump. It would be sad that such wordly concerns would be the last dying thoughts of a person.
Anyways, here's your own heavily biased WaPo article, conor - back when they were trying to get this to happen, not now when they are trying to prevent it.
Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/ginsburg-suggests-senate-should-act-on-garland-nomination-but-says-it-cannot-be-forced-to/2016/09/07/0f10b7b6-754c-11e6-b786-19d0cb1ed06c_story.html
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People are treating RBG's death like she was a saint.
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(She was no Notorious GIP.)
Never has the last wish of a justice been an issue. I certainly don't remember talking about it when Scalia's life was terminated.
A normal person would have been worried about her family, not her political successor. If she were worried about that, she would have resigned under Obama.
Seems to soil her memory to think she would say that on her deathbed.
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Justice Ginsburg loved the Court and fully embraced its constitutional role. As an institutionalist, she understood how the balance of the Court will be substantially changed by replacing one its most liberal jurists with a very conservative one. [Hence, there is no reason to disbelieve RBG’s granddaughter.]
No doubt that was the calculus in 2016 when Scalia passed and the GOP majority took the position of “let the voters decide in November” even though November was 9 months away when Merrick Garland was nominated by a duly elected President Obama.
Now, here we are, but only 37 days until an election. Suddenly, the GOP majority does not want the voters to decide in November, particularly when they can rush in a conservative to take Ginsburg’s seat. Their rationale in 2016 suddenly went “Poof!”
As to Baron’s disingenuous pitch that the voters decided in 2018 to let Mitch do as he pleases, the Democrats won 22 of the 35 Senate seats up for election in 2018, which does not include the two Independent seats (Maine and Vermont). Democrat Senate candidates received 17 million more votes than Republican Senate candidates in 2018.
Yet, the Republicans retained the majority. Until Democrats stop losing elections, feel free to carry on with your game of Grand Theft Auto.
Just don’t pretend your side is principled or is acting per a mandate from the electorate.
What a shitty judge you accuse her of being!
And you also say that she is guilty of the very same thing that you accuse ACB of doing in advance.
Liberals accuse others of that which they do.
This is what RESPECT looks like for an American legend who honored her oath each and every day:
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Again, that is what RESPECT looks like.
A bipartisan tribute to a warrior for gender equality.
Now, go quickly edit your post so you won't appear so tribal and foolish.
...she adhered to what she herself believed and said, right?
she said the president is the president for 4 years, not 3. there would be no question in her mind about nominating her scotus replacement now unless you bring her core integrity into question.
and her "last wish"? who heard it? who reported it? it was incredibly important so why didn't she write it down for posterity and give it to a trusted source on both sides of the isle in her own handwriting? that "last wish" is totally bogus unless she was lying, which we all agree she would not.
try again.
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believe that Ginsburg is that self serving rather than a professional jurist?! What you suggest is demeaning to Ginsburg. By accepting this convenient, unconfirmable, deathbed story, you demean Ginsburg by implying that she is a partisan with a different set of rules for thee than for me
I linked the quote and the article.
So why the difference in opinion from a professional jurist when it applies to one party as compared to the other? Let me go get a coke to go with the pretzel that your going to be bringing.
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