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Love the Notorious RBG!
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I’m 65. I would “settle” for five female SCOTUS in my lifetime. Hurry up!
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Chief Justice Ginsburg has such a nice ring to it.
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Scalia and Thomas being replaced by liberal women would make for some pretty good Fox News segments.
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I really don’t think she means it in the way everyone is taking it. She’s not saying there should definitely be nine women on the Court, although she is indicating (correctly) that no one should have any problem with that.
I think what RBG is specifically doing is deftly eviscerating the premise of the question. The question poses an absurd double-standard threshold in the concept of “enough.” Enough women? Why would there ever be an accepted limitation on the presence of females, in any profession, association, or institution? So she answers it logically: the only possible way the condition of “enough women” can be satisfied is when all the seats are filled with women. In addition, she is silently underscoring the fact that, for 85% of its existence, the Supreme Court was 100% male. And no man ever asked publicly if that was more than enough.
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She’s given an answer from a feminist’s point of view, that is, if the old white men and one old black man could think more like women, empathize with them and their particular concerns as women, many of childbearing age, parents, occasionally underpaid workers, etc. we could certainly accept less than nine.
"Ruth Bader Ginsburg Declares How Many Women Should Sit On SCOTUS "
Well, I wish you would’ve retired last year so the president could have at least kept the number of women at three.
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The left should be out in force recruiting a thousand RBGs to run for office.
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Hey, I’d settle for – three (?) – any change would be an improvement over the Fascist Four.
Works for me as long as they are not drawn form the Liberty University style area of the fever swamp.
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Huh? We have three women on the bench right now.
It’s a good thing your wish for her to retire didn’t come true. She’s one of a kind, with liberal bona fides going back for decades. We’ll never see these qualifications in another SCOTUS nominee in our lifetime because she or he wouldn’t be confirmed by this Senate.
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How many is “enough” women for the courts? How about exactly one-half of all positions, since women are 50% of the human population and are mentally no better nor worse than men?
I also think that she displays her sense of humor with a great answer to a fairly stupid and definitely unanswerable question. Headlines would be thick and heavy if she had tried to take the question seriously.
I also liked her self-deprecating indication that a lawyer needs no talent whatsoever and still can rise to the top of her profession! Unlike an opera singer…
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Justice Ginsburg’s sentiment is easily understandable. Her career went from a time the U.S. Attorney’s office believed no woman was tough enough to serve as prosecutor to now when there are three on the high court. And remember, it took more than two centuries for the first woman to be appointed to the high court.
That being said, I’d settle for Stephen Breyer and eight other progressive justices. No problem if all eight are women. Breyer, Roberts, Kennedy and six progressive women or men would be the more realistic not so bad court. Any court that is Scalia, Alioto & Thomas-less would be much improved.
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I’m all for more women on the SC but if there pulled from the dregs of the right wing that wouldn’t make much of a difference. A female version of Roberts is no kind of goal to be shooting for.
I look forward to the day when we won’t have to worry about the sex or race of our judges because they judge fairly.
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THAT is the correct answer!
Duh! Don’t know what I was thinking. Three more maybe?