Ruth Bader Ginsburg RIP

Thank you RGB for your service and a life well-lived.

Drumpf and Undertaker Mitch are about to leave more poison in their wake. Heaven help us all.

Oh Please wrote:

It's as sad as anyone else dying ... the real tragedy is being able to be a supreme court justice at age 87. Lets get some term limits folks. Supreme court justices, congressmen and senators.

This the correct answer. 20 year term max.

Ginsburg was a center voice. She often ruled for big business and for police.

First of all condolences to the Ginburg Family and Friends.

As for the Replacement, Ginsburg was voted on to the Supreme Court by a 96-3 Vote.

One way to Honor her is for President Trump to pick a replacement who will be voted in by a similar OVERWHELMING VOTE, By BOTH Parties, Think of a Replacement who has a chance to be voted in by a 100-0 Vote. Do NOT Replace her with someone who will squeek in by a 51-49 vote, A Replacement who gets in by a close vote, a replacement who gets in by an overwhelming vote (Meaning at least 90 Votes) keeps the Country United.

Mitch McConell already said he will go ahead with the replacement before the election.

Suddenly Mitch will start pushing something through the senate. Confirmation vote before or after the election?

That was the past.

Things changed when Merrick Garland was not even given a vote.

Garland was literally floated as an acceptable choice by Republicans ahead of time and they still wouldn’t confirm him.

If Scalia died a year earlier, McConnell still would have held up the vote until 2017.

If Hillary won and the Senate stayed the same, I’m not sure McConnell would confirm anyone she put up.

Kennedy would not have retired.

We’d have 7 Justices right now.

douglas burke wrote:

First of all condolences to the Ginburg Family and Friends.

As for the Replacement, Ginsburg was voted on to the Supreme Court by a 96-3 Vote.

One way to Honor her is for President Trump to pick a replacement who will be voted in by a similar OVERWHELMING VOTE, By BOTH Parties, Think of a Replacement who has a chance to be voted in by a 100-0 Vote. Do NOT Replace her with someone who will squeek in by a 51-49 vote, A Replacement who gets in by a close vote, a replacement who gets in by an overwhelming vote (Meaning at least 90 Votes) keeps the Country United.

Mitch McConell already said he will go ahead with the replacement before the election.

If people took an honest look at what Ted Cruz brings to the table in terms of legal deliverables and faith, he would get 90+ votes out the Senators.

Here is the list of how they were voted in Sandra Day O' Conner was voted in 99-0 Hopefully Trump picks someone to replace RBG who everyone is happy with and they get in 100-0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nominations_to_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States

douglas burke wrote:

First of all condolences to the Ginburg Family and Friends.

As for the Replacement, Ginsburg was voted on to the Supreme Court by a 96-3 Vote.

One way to Honor her is for President Trump to pick a replacement who will be voted in by a similar OVERWHELMING VOTE, By BOTH Parties, Think of a Replacement who has a chance to be voted in by a 100-0 Vote. Do NOT Replace her with someone who will squeek in by a 51-49 vote, A Replacement who gets in by a close vote, a replacement who gets in by an overwhelming vote (Meaning at least 90 Votes) keeps the Country United.

Mitch McConell already said he will go ahead with the replacement before the election.

Brett Kavanaugh was unfairly savaged by the Senate Democrats. Why would the Republicans opt for a nominee who might garner such a vote after what the Senate Democrats did to him? The Senate treated him like garbage. Turnabout is fair play.

The election results will not be accepted by either side

It will have to go to the Supreme Court...

Trump just sealed it

douglas burke wrote:

As for the Replacement, Ginsburg was voted on to the Supreme Court by a 96-3 Vote.

One way to Honor her is for President Trump to pick a replacement who will be voted in by a similar OVERWHELMING VOTE, By BOTH Parties, Think of a Replacement who has a chance to be voted in by a 100-0 Vote.

Merrick Garland

I wonder what such an overt act of unification would do to Trump's re-election prospects.

Murkowski says she will vote NO on a replacement before the next president assumes office. Romney will do the same. A few more senators will join them. Trump will not get another justice seated.

The reason is McConnell in 2016 when he refused to consider Merrick Garland: "That was too close to an election, and that the people needed to decide. That the closer you get to an election, that argument becomes even more important."

https://www.alaskapublic.org/2020/09/18/alaska-senator-murkowski-said-friday-she-would-not-vote-for-a-justice-ahead-of-election/

douglas burke wrote:

Here is the list of how they were voted in Sandra Day O' Conner was voted in 99-0 Hopefully Trump picks someone to replace RBG who everyone is happy with and they get in 100-0.

The highest acceptance would be Obama on the SCOTUS. Only the freedumb caucus will vote no. For Obama it would be 75-25.

ted cruz wrote:

Wait until Amy Barrett is nominated and the Dems, like they did to Kavanaugh, ask her:

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Won't be her. My prediction is Amul Thapar. Nominated by Trump fairly soon, rammed through the Senate by McConnell after the election.

bello wrote:

Won't be her. My prediction is Amul Thapar. Nominated by Trump fairly soon, rammed through the Senate by McConnell after the election.

It will not be anyone nominated by Trump. Watch the rats abandoning ship. Any GOP senator with a November election would be committing political suicide by aligning with Trump at this juncture. Graham, Collins, etc. will distance themselves from this and Trump.......and right soon!

“My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed,” Ginsburg said.

A. Her wish isn’t relevant

B. Does re-elected Trump count as a new president?

the least intelligent, lowest character President of our life time gets to leave another lasting stain on the country. A departing skidmark.

awesome.

[quote]bad timing wrote:

“My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed,” Ginsburg said.

A. Her wish isn’t relevant

-- A few Republican Senators have already said they will honor her wish, and hold McConnell to his reasoning for denying Garrick in 2016.

B. Does re-elected Trump count as a new president?

-- If reelected Trump it won't be official until after the election is certified, which is several weeks after Nov. 3rd. If Trump contests a lost he is not the president. There is no scenario where Trump gets to shove another SCOTUS member in before he leaves office. Time is too short. And enough Republican Senators won't play along.

Sharkz Jamp wrote:

the least intelligent, lowest character President of our life time gets to leave another lasting stain on the country. A departing skidmark.

awesome.

Several Republican Senators won't let it happen.

I hope you're right. To see a handful of R senators refuse to confirm at this time, how refreshing would that be? Would be a tiny sliver of light shining during dark times.

george c wrote:

It will not be anyone nominated by Trump. Watch the rats abandoning ship. Any GOP senator with a November election would be committing political suicide by aligning with Trump at this juncture. Graham, Collins, etc. will distance themselves from this and Trump.......and right soon!