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| She was a hero to the rights of women, people of color and progressives. Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away. |
WEAR A MASK! SAVE A LIFE!
IF YOU ARE SICK, STAY THE FUCK HOME!
The NOTORIOUS RBG was her nickname and it was a honor for her to be a part of the court.
Her death will rock Washington, DC as well as the fights for equal rights, civil rights and women's rights. They will now have to face an onslaught of challenges that could rollback marriage equality, Roe v. Wade, Brown v. Board of Education and expand rulings like DC v. Heller.
Donald J. Trump will likely get a Supreme Court nominee confirmed right before the election and it will change the court for a generation. His pick will be conservative and he's signaled that he's willing to pick Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron or former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi as possible replacements.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away at the age of 87.
The progressive Supreme Court justice had massive health issues. It finally took its toll on the oldest woman to be presently sitting on the court.
Trump, Mike Pence, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Rep. Kevin McCarthy (D-CA) and the Court were notified. Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) were notified as well.
She succumbed to pancreatic cancer.
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| Trump will quickly get a nominee confirmed. |
Ginsburg, the second woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice who served for 27 years on the highest court of the land, battled several bouts of cancer after being first diagnosed in 2009.
Her death clears a way for Trump to get a third pick, something Barack Obama was denied back in 2016 when Antonin Scalia died. McConnell denied Obama's pick of Merrick Garland and it caused a firestorm of controversy.
You are reminded that McConnell said that during an election year, a president shouldn't be able to pick a Supreme Court nominee. Guess he'll ignore his own thoughts about this.
Ginsburg had possibly told Trump and the Court about her illness.
"Our Nation has lost a jurist of historic stature," said Chief Justice John Roberts. "We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn, but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her -- a tireless and resolute champion of justice."
Ginsburg died surrounded by her family at her home in Washington, D.C., the court said. A private interment service will be held at Arlington National Cemetery. The Congress hasn't set a memorial service for her as of yet. I am guessing that Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter will attend services if possible.
When he nominated her, President Bill Clinton called her "the Thurgood Marshall of gender equality law." In 2015, writing about her as one of Time's 100 most influential people in the world, Justice Antonin Scalia compared her to the same former justice: "She became the leading (and very successful) litigator on behalf of women’s rights — the Thurgood Marshall of that cause, so to speak."
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| Mitch McConnell denied Barack Obama his third Supreme Court pick. He won't deny Donald J. Trump his third pick. |
And as the frequency and barbed tone of her dissents increased later in her career, she became a liberal icon, sometimes dubbed "The Notorious RBG."
"No other justice, however scrutinized or respected, has so captured the public imagination," wrote Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik in a 2015 book of that name. They added: "Across America, people who weren't even born when Ginsburg made her name are tattooing themselves with her face, setting her famously searing dissents to music, and making viral videos in tribute."
During the 2016 campaign, she repeatedly blasted presidential candidate Donald Trump and found herself scolded by those who thought justices shouldn’t get involved in partisan politics — and the target of a Trump tirade. "Justice Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court has embarrassed all by making very dumb political statements about me." Trump tweeted in July 2016.
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| The Republicans are motivated to vote this election. Will the Democrats get motivated now that the Supreme Court's balance is at risk of falling to the conservative wing for a generation! |
She said that as long as she could, she will fully serve a member of the Court.
"I have often said I would remain a member of the Court as long as I can do the job full steam. I remain fully able to do that."
She isn't the only member of the Court who had a medical issue. Roberts had suffered a mild seizure last month after he injured his head in a fall.
Clarence Thomas, the sole African American and member of the conservative wing has considered retiring.
Nothing is confirmed about any of these members. However if anyone retires or dies, Trump will easily get a nomination confirmed. Now, the progressives should be motivated to get out and vote.
Because if we continue to listen to the anti-Biden leftists, we'll lose.
Trump is running on a white nationalist platform. He will try to pin all the blame on Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as a last ditch effort to win over white voters. With Russia propaganda and agitators from both sides of the spectrum trying to sow discourse, it's going to take a miracle to drag Joe Biden across the finish line.
We are in a fucking coronavirus pandemic. We have civil unrest from coast to coast. We have natural disasters getting worse. We have an economic crisis in the country. All this while we're only less than a few months from Election Day.
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