So her option to become a fitness coach and live a better example from the TED stage was looming large, you say? I’ll write that on the chipper blade here.
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Really Flossy?
Too soon
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The whole reason SCOTUS justices are given lifetime appointments is so their decision-making processes can be as insulated as possible from partisan political considerations. “I’d better retire now rather than risk letting a Republican President appoint my replacement!” goes against the spirit of that impartiality.
It was RBG’s job to make rulings as she saw fit. It was the voters’ job to make sure a manifestly unfit person did not take control of the White House and that the Senate didn’t fall under the control of hyperpartisan crooks who abdicated their Constitutional duties.
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How they got there is partisan AF.
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Cool idea in 1787. Appears to have failed now that it’s 200 odd years later.
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That’s the theoretical idea. No person with a functioning brain has thought this was the reality since Roe V Wade became the rallying cry for the GOP. There’s no way that she was that naive.
She was appointed after Reagan. She was on the supreme court through Bush 2.
ETA:
Per Wikipedia at least, she kept the job because she could immerse herself in work as a coping mechanism for the death of her husband, and she liked the idea of becoming the longest-serving supreme court justice (which iirc is like 35 years?) The cult of personality that built up around “Notorious RBG” probably didn’t hurt either; look at all the mourners in DC.
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In the interest of damning with faint praise, that’s a fairly normal, believable thing a human being might say. Are we sure an intern didn’t pull some ventriloquism there?
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Maybe don’t direct your disgust about the situation toward the one person who was still doing her job.
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Whatever. I hope her ghost is happy she’s left us in a situation where people like me get to lose a bunch of rights because a fascist gets to appoint SCOTUS positions.
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On top of everything else, this essentially resets the presidential campaign, and gives both Trump and purple state GOP senators a new lease on life.
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She’s not the one who put the fucking fascist an office.
For all she knew, retiring before she felt ready would have also deprived the first woman president of an opportunity to install a Supreme Court justice.
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It’s a goddamned race changer.
Essentially locking up any SCOTUS decision regarding voter fraud in the election.
Also any constitutional change thereafter
Putin is laughing his ass off.
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For all those crying she should have retired years ago so Obama. Could appoint her successor- Merrick Garland.
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Fair enough, but that’s just as much of a political gambit anyway.
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People shouldn’t be gathering at the supreme court, they should be hauling ass over to the senate.
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I would add that often times we find that the people who “stick around too long” are also either a) in roles that are not achieved easily and are b) the personality type that has the drive to achieve those roles. RBG was definitely in the both category. Expected her to retire when she clearly felt she had work and good to still do is simply antithetical to everything that got her into that position in the first place.
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Since papasan isn’t here to post it:
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Don’t tell him for a few months
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They are promising to not vote prior to the election because they need to appear moderate to win. Once the election is over, they’ll happily vote Tom Cotton in, regardless of hope the election goes.
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As if Mitch McConnel cares.
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