I still believe that there would have been no way Reid would have allowed Mitch to block a SCOTUS appointment if it had come to that.But we'll never know.
"And while we're at it, we really should place the blame for Trump's presidency squarely where it belongs -- on the shoulders of Barrack Obama. If he hadn't made fun of Trump, Trump would never have run . . ."
You and I will probably never see eye to eye on this. And maybe Reid would have changed the law when absolutely forced to. Then again, he could have changed the law before events demanded it, and that would have been fine too.
OK - I'll give him Ginsburg. She was arrogantly short-sighted in the face of an obvious threat.
...but, in return, he has to give me Kennedy, who was in good health when he voluntarily retired to give his seat to Donald Trump to fill, despite knowing what would happen to not just the abortion rights that he was always moderate on, but to the LGBT rights that he led on.
Kennedy's mentor lived a miserable life as a closeted gay man and it gave Kennedy a genuine empathy to LGBT people. His opinions in Lawrence, Romer, Windsor and Obergefell almost rise to poetry and they changed America for so much the better.
...but making sure that a Republican would replace him was more important to him than that amazing legacy, and he did not even care that that Republican would be a creature like Trump.
...and so a fifth vote to crush Roe was thereby had, a vote that would never have come from Kennedy himself if he had stayed even at the risk of a Dem someday replacing him.
...and when the current Court comes for his decisions on LGBT rights there will be that fifth vote too...
Ginsburg was sort of delusional as to her longevity but Kennedy was cold-blooded. He knew what would happen and chose it deliberately.
This.If she had been a man, I and others would have been saying the same thing about how badly she screwed up by rolling the dice when there was chances to retire.I get why people love RBG but she screwed up, and that choice will have damned so many.
For me, I go back to Thurgood Marshall, who didn't have a choice in the end.I don't get how Ginsburg or others could have looked at that and done everything they could to ensure that wouldn't happen to them.
At the time Obama had asked her to retire, she had been through two different bouts of cancer, including one with a long term fatality rate of near 90%.I think Schmidt is an asshole of the highest order but for me, if Ruth's name had been Ralph Ginsburg and had done the same thing, I would call him out too.There comes a time when sometimes you have to step aside for a greater good and it didn't happen here.
Above , I addressed Kennedy's cold-blooded retirement under Trump but there was no male justice who was so often at death's door and still refused to step aside when they could have been replaced by an ally.
The only comparable situation that I can think of is Marshall, who hung on into ill health and incipient dementia and then we got Thomas, but Marshall was fine under Carter and could never have survived to Clinton. Obama was in place when Ginsburg could have taken a graceful and smart retirement.
I appreciate that Mr. Schmidt has reconsidered his past thought crimes.
But he is still a douchebag.
Yup.Sad to say AOC, whom I had high hopes for at one time is at the top of that list.
I go with Lauren Underwood.She gets the work done without undercutting other Democrats.
I still believe that there would have been no way Reid would have allowed Mitch to block a SCOTUS appointment if it had come to that.But we'll never know.
"And while we're at it, we really should place the blame for Trump's presidency squarely where it belongs -- on the shoulders of Barrack Obama. If he hadn't made fun of Trump, Trump would never have run . . ."
McCain also vocally opposed anti-abortion rights.
Typo alert!
You and I will probably never see eye to eye on this. And maybe Reid would have changed the law when absolutely forced to. Then again, he could have changed the law before events demanded it, and that would have been fine too.
OK - I'll give him Ginsburg. She was arrogantly short-sighted in the face of an obvious threat.
...but, in return, he has to give me Kennedy, who was in good health when he voluntarily retired to give his seat to Donald Trump to fill, despite knowing what would happen to not just the abortion rights that he was always moderate on, but to the LGBT rights that he led on.
Kennedy's mentor lived a miserable life as a closeted gay man and it gave Kennedy a genuine empathy to LGBT people. His opinions in Lawrence, Romer, Windsor and Obergefell almost rise to poetry and they changed America for so much the better.
...but making sure that a Republican would replace him was more important to him than that amazing legacy, and he did not even care that that Republican would be a creature like Trump.
...and so a fifth vote to crush Roe was thereby had, a vote that would never have come from Kennedy himself if he had stayed even at the risk of a Dem someday replacing him.
...and when the current Court comes for his decisions on LGBT rights there will be that fifth vote too...
Ginsburg was sort of delusional as to her longevity but Kennedy was cold-blooded. He knew what would happen and chose it deliberately.
So, how about him, Steve?
Steve?
Steve???
Ginsburg held the line for as long as she could. We should thank her for her service, not wish that it had ended sooner.
THANK YOU, STEPHEN. This is all.
This.If she had been a man, I and others would have been saying the same thing about how badly she screwed up by rolling the dice when there was chances to retire.I get why people love RBG but she screwed up, and that choice will have damned so many.
For me, I go back to Thurgood Marshall, who didn't have a choice in the end.I don't get how Ginsburg or others could have looked at that and done everything they could to ensure that wouldn't happen to them.
At the time Obama had asked her to retire, she had been through two different bouts of cancer, including one with a long term fatality rate of near 90%.I think Schmidt is an asshole of the highest order but for me, if Ruth's name had been Ralph Ginsburg and had done the same thing, I would call him out too.There comes a time when sometimes you have to step aside for a greater good and it didn't happen here.
I'll agree, emphasis on "or others".
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"Forget it; he's rollin'."
Because a male justice didn't do it.
Above , I addressed Kennedy's cold-blooded retirement under Trump but there was no male justice who was so often at death's door and still refused to step aside when they could have been replaced by an ally.
The only comparable situation that I can think of is Marshall, who hung on into ill health and incipient dementia and then we got Thomas, but Marshall was fine under Carter and could never have survived to Clinton. Obama was in place when Ginsburg could have taken a graceful and smart retirement.
Sometimes women actually do wrong things.