I am convinced she is only staying until she can participate (and possibly write the majority opinion) making same sex marriage a constitutional right.
She wants to leave her mark on history (in this case a stain) and then leave before Obama leaves office, so he can pick her replacement.
Although activist justices took advantage of widespread ignorance of the Constitution and got away with establishing the PC “right” to have an abortion for example, it remains that the Supreme Court has no constitutional authority to establish constitutional rights.
As required by the Constitution’s Article V, either Congress or the states must propose an amendment to the Constitution to the states which would expressly establish so-called “rights” like gay marriage and abortion. And then it is entirely up to the states to either ratify or ignore the proposed amendment.
Also, as previously mentioned, note that if the 17th Amendment hadn’t been ratified there would probably be all different faces on the Supreme Court at this time and we wouldn’t be concerned about activist justices trying to establish gay rights and abortion rights outside the framework of the Constitution.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear.