WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a diminutive yet towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington. She was 87.
DAMNIT.
Ugh.
Crap! So that means that we will need to increase the number of Justices to 11… might as well do 13.
May I suggest that any attempt of the Republican Senate to replace Ruth Bader Ginsberg by ramming through a nominee so close to this election or in the lame duck session be met with a Demoncratic pledge that any such action will result in an immediate impeachment of the Republican choice upon installment of a Democratic majority Senate.
I submit this because of the dreadfully inappropriate obstruction of the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland. This refusal to even give Judge Garland a legitimate chance to be confirmed should be met by an equally determined refusal to accept a new Republican nominee at this time.
I am depressed beyond all understanding.
No that would be crass partisanship and profoundly un-american.
Cheer yourself up… how much is 9 plus 2?
Just make sure, if you live in a blue state, to write your senators demanding they increase the number of justices. Have all your friends and family do the same.
Michigan. And we are rabid political right now.
Pack the court.
Well John Roberts, history and your eternal legacy as a jurist just became fucking real.
Hope you can remember that.
I don’t give a flying fuck what John Roberts has to say about RBG.
I hope you are being Onion-like sarcastic.
Sounds great. However, while impeachment requires a simple majority in the House, conviction requires a 2/3 majority in the senate. Yup, reality sucks. But, after all, there was no difference between trump and Clinton, so why vote to protect the courts?
Maybe you can recall a school assignment where you were required to read and learn about a figure that would touch you and ultimately change your life …what doors has this marvelous woman opened for thousands of inspired women who now understand what is possible by her peerless example.
As a gen x, I’m fuck tired of telling millennials how important they’re vote is. Sit out Clinton/Trump because of intellectual purity. I’m over 50. Unless they’ll be turning me into soylent green, I don’t have any mor skin in the game.
I am rolling up on 62 and out of gafs.
I’m leaving for ‘father knows best’
I’m sure Boof Kavanaugh is thrilled with no longer being the newbie on the Court. He should never have been there in the first place. Gorsuck either.
Do it anyway
Make them defend themselves
Protocol demanded a statement from Chief Justice Roberts, but history would be better served if he had elected to keep Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s name out of his mouth on the occasion of her death, unless it was to call for a replacement that will restore the balance of gender and moderate/liberal perspective that her tenure represented. She was too fine an American and too great a jurist to be granted anything less.