Senate resolution honoring Ruth Bader Ginsburg fails to pass after Ted Cruz objects to adding her 'dying wish'

Washington Examiner ^ | September 23, 2020 | Spencer Neale

[karpov]

A ceremonial resolution honoring the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was pulled after Sen. Ted Cruz objected to language added by the chamber's top Democrat about the liberal icon's dying wish.

"All the kind words and lamentations about Justice Ginsburg from the Republican majority will be totally empty if those Republicans ignore her dying wish and instead replace her with someone who will tear down everything she built," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said regarding the resolution.

Cruz objected to the inclusion of the wish, arguing that the Constitution states that justices do not get to appoint their successor.

"The Democratic leader wants to add a statement that Justice Ginsburg's position should not be filled until a new president is installed, purportedly based on a comment Justice Ginsburg made to family members shortly before she passed," the Texas Republican said. "That, of course, is not the standard. Under the Constitution, members of the judiciary do not appoint their own successors."

Schumer accused Cruz of using Ginsburg's "dying words" against her, but Cruz refused to yield. He argued that the inclusion of Ginsburg's deathbed wish was "beneath the dignity" of the Senate. The resolution failed to pass.

[karpov]

Good for Cruz. While considering a replacement, the Senate should not care what any justice's "dying wish" was. RBG was a fraud who should have run for office instead of being a judge. I'm sick of leftist heroes like RBG, the drug dealing criminal George Floyd, and their other criminals.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Senate resolution honoring Ruth Bader Ginsburg fails to pass after Ted Cruz objects to adding her ‘dying wish’

Honoring a dead Justice is usually an AUTOMATIC thing with a 100% pass rate. Why politicize it?

[ChronicMA]

the media and the Dems believe Trump is trying to appoint his own successor, namely himself. Perhaps they should support both Ginsberg’s and Trump’s wishes.

[livius]

Go Ted Cruz!

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

Goes to show that Schumer and the dems are out of ammunition on this one.

[Cold Heart]

democrats/scorpions, it’s what they do

[Gasshog]

So now there should be NO doubt the dying wish is FAKE. Just another lie in the Rat toolbox to steal the election and our freedoms!

The Rats have no shame

[liberalh8ter]

Good for Ted Cruz...we have NO IDEA what her dying wish was. This statement are: replacement was according to her granddaughter, not some written statement her personal attorney came out with. I’m also curious if RBG was even in that casket because she should have been buried within 24 hours. Heck, I’m even curious about her date of death.

[Sans-Culotte]

Well done, Ted.

[Ge0ffrey]

The left is expert at making things up whole cloth and repeating the lie until everyone believes it. Here’s another one, J. Edgar Hoover was a cross dresser.

[HighSierra5]

Good for you Cruz. Keep it up.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

There is at least 1 patriot and 99 losers in the Senate.

This is the reverse of Christ's parable of the lost sheep. We have one faithful sheep, and 99 lost, cowardly sheep.
 

[cornfedcowboy]

It couldn’t possibly be her dying wish. A clerk for Schumer probably wrote it.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

24 hours? Secular Jews scoff at the Torah. For all I know Ginsberg's last meal was a BLT.
 

[GreyFriar]

Perhaps she can be made the patron said of abortion by Pelosi and her renegade Catholic politicians.

[SMARTY]

They can’t help themselves, can they? Just like addicts

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

the Senate should not care what any justice's "dying wish" was.

I wonder what Justice Scalia's dying wish was?

[Bob434]

[[arguing that the Constitution states that justices do not get to appoint their successor. ]]

Spot on=- the left can stomp their foot all they like- melt down, and crawl into a corner and sulk for all we care- We’re replacing her-

[Political Junkie Too]

Good for Ted Cruz...we have NO IDEA what her dying wish was.

Since Ginsburg has been slowly dying for several years now, I think I can safely say that her "dying wish" was that Obama not be the President who replaces her.

Ginsburg's "dying wish" was to last long enough for Hillary Clinton to replace her.

She didn't get that "dying wish" from her Creator, so why should anyone honor a purported "dying wish" from her now?

-PJ

[ealgeone]

So now there should be NO doubt the dying wish is FAKE. Just another lie in the Rat toolbox to steal the election and our freedoms!

*****

THIS!