It's why people keep insisting there has to be funny business with Anthony Kennedy retiring when he did.People simply don't want to admit he was smart enough to do what RBG didn't do in ensuring his replacement was someone he wanted and not what the opposite party would have wanted.To your other point, people can't get mad at Breyer for staying on when they keep making excuse for RBG doing so.
Yep--I'm mad at both. For whatever reason--vanity, blindness to what the GOP has become, or even the closeness of working with their foes so that they can think "Scalia is a good guy, he brought me candy that time" and all is good so long as they have "qualified jurists" on the Court--our side just doesn't get it. Republicans seem to be the only ones who know there's a fight going on. And now our side is so invested in treating Ginsburg et al like heroes that they can't accept that these people can screw up royally.
Just look at Amy Barrett's smirk, and remember what the end result of all this is.
Between lifetime Justices and elected local judges it’s admittedly an odd set up when viewed from outside the US border but some observations:-the same calls to retire vs expire are being made for Breyer as for Ginsburg; louder now actually that the consequences are more widely understood so no, it’s position not gender -“there’d still be a conservative majority so what difference would it have made” this stance presupposes a crystal ball and ignores that while far from perfect a 4-4 split gave Roberts cover to find middle ground -“she had the right to stay as long as she wanted” undeniably, yes; however, as we’re fond of pointing out based on our individual stance on any specific right (1A, 2A etc) they come with the responsibility to consider the greater good
Goes with lower courts as well.We just saw an 81 year old moderate Clinton jurist on the 4th Circuit take his senior status back because he didn't like the person Joe Manchin selected.I guess he thinks Mitch McConnell will make a better pick?
I think Putin gets far too much credit. We have an entire political party dedicated to destroying the government, the culture, and the infrastructure of the United States, positing foreign influence isn't really necessary. While it's very large Russia is neither a rich nor a powerful country, their GDP is smaller than that of Italy.
Putin is a nationalist, as long as Russia and its interests are left alone he tends to be pretty quiet. He was of course interested in keeping Clinton out of the White House, her anti-Russian bigotry was so extreme she helped instigate a coup to put actual Nazis in charge of Ukraine when it looked like the two countries were going to ally with each other. If I were Russian I would probably have applauded the effort (probably if I were Ukrainian too). Rump was no threat to anyone but his own country, of course he was left alone. As long as Biden leaves Russia alone it's likely that Putin will continue to keep his hands out of US politics.
Going after Ginsberg is part and parcel of the Kato Institute's plan to screw America. We see posters here who only and always post negative things (true or not) about each and every public progressive. That's their PR mission. To muddy up the left.
That's nice- 40 years later, with a significantly larger population, Biden got more votes. His EC margin certainly wasn't though- and that's the one that counts. And Biden was the bright spot of 2020...
That's certainly one of the problems. The millions who don't vote regularly is another. All the swing voters who can't wait to run back to daddy GOP as soon as the Dems clean things up a bit is another . They're ALL problems.
It's why people keep insisting there has to be funny business with Anthony Kennedy retiring when he did.People simply don't want to admit he was smart enough to do what RBG didn't do in ensuring his replacement was someone he wanted and not what the opposite party would have wanted.To your other point, people can't get mad at Breyer for staying on when they keep making excuse for RBG doing so.
It went to her fans heads as well thinking she was immortal.
Yep--I'm mad at both. For whatever reason--vanity, blindness to what the GOP has become, or even the closeness of working with their foes so that they can think "Scalia is a good guy, he brought me candy that time" and all is good so long as they have "qualified jurists" on the Court--our side just doesn't get it. Republicans seem to be the only ones who know there's a fight going on. And now our side is so invested in treating Ginsburg et al like heroes that they can't accept that these people can screw up royally.
Just look at Amy Barrett's smirk, and remember what the end result of all this is.
I am not. I'm a CPA. And, you may well be correct.
Very well put. Time to re-read The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, if that's even apropos; I can't remember.
Find a woman to blame. Evergreen strategy since Eve.
Between lifetime Justices and elected local judges it’s admittedly an odd set up when viewed from outside the US border but some observations:-the same calls to retire vs expire are being made for Breyer as for Ginsburg; louder now actually that the consequences are more widely understood so no, it’s position not gender -“there’d still be a conservative majority so what difference would it have made” this stance presupposes a crystal ball and ignores that while far from perfect a 4-4 split gave Roberts cover to find middle ground -“she had the right to stay as long as she wanted” undeniably, yes; however, as we’re fond of pointing out based on our individual stance on any specific right (1A, 2A etc) they come with the responsibility to consider the greater good
Goes with lower courts as well.We just saw an 81 year old moderate Clinton jurist on the 4th Circuit take his senior status back because he didn't like the person Joe Manchin selected.I guess he thinks Mitch McConnell will make a better pick?
I think Putin gets far too much credit. We have an entire political party dedicated to destroying the government, the culture, and the infrastructure of the United States, positing foreign influence isn't really necessary. While it's very large Russia is neither a rich nor a powerful country, their GDP is smaller than that of Italy.
Putin is a nationalist, as long as Russia and its interests are left alone he tends to be pretty quiet. He was of course interested in keeping Clinton out of the White House, her anti-Russian bigotry was so extreme she helped instigate a coup to put actual Nazis in charge of Ukraine when it looked like the two countries were going to ally with each other. If I were Russian I would probably have applauded the effort (probably if I were Ukrainian too). Rump was no threat to anyone but his own country, of course he was left alone. As long as Biden leaves Russia alone it's likely that Putin will continue to keep his hands out of US politics.
Let's have people of all sexes write in to their reps and senators, demanding that the ERA be added to the US Constitution. There's a start.
Going after Ginsberg is part and parcel of the Kato Institute's plan to screw America. We see posters here who only and always post negative things (true or not) about each and every public progressive. That's their PR mission. To muddy up the left.
Bullshit. She should've retired, everyone knows it, and neither the author's gender nor hers changes that fact.
The weird, postmortem valorization of Ginsburg is wildly in conflict with objective reality.
Weird, but when women take a shit, it actually stinks.
Her fans are SO MUCH WORSE than she ever was.
That's nice- 40 years later, with a significantly larger population, Biden got more votes. His EC margin certainly wasn't though- and that's the one that counts. And Biden was the bright spot of 2020...
That's certainly one of the problems. The millions who don't vote regularly is another. All the swing voters who can't wait to run back to daddy GOP as soon as the Dems clean things up a bit is another . They're ALL problems.