Posted on 02/04/2017 6:44:06 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Ginsburg is hanging by a thread. She has the left in a panic as she is 83. Breyer will soon be 79. Throw in Kennedy and it is not out of the realm of possibility that Trump will have three more picks in the next four years.
Replacing Ginsburg and Breyer would be tremendous for America. The left would be reduced to Fred Flintstone and the Idiot Latina on the bench.
What a nightmare for Ginsburg. She now doubt dreamed of retiring in June to have the first woman president, and a reliable leftist, choose her replacement. What a cruel world. ;^)
” “A vacancy created by Kennedy would be fraught with symbolism that the Court could really move in a more conservative direction,” one aide told me. “Democrats will be under enormous pressure from their base to fight the Trump nominee to the death. A highly qualified woman with a compelling life story would help.” “
Yeah, and you can shove that idea up your...!
” The left would be reduced to Fred Flintstone and the Idiot Latina on the bench.”
LOL OK, who is Fred Flintstone?
I was looking at Elena Kagan’s background to see what her life expectancy would be. She is short(5’4”) and stocky. (being kind)
Her father’s obituary:
Robert Kagan, 67, Lawyer for Tenants
Published: July 25, 1994
Robert Kagan, a New York lawyer and a former chairman of Community Board 7, on the Upper West Side, died on Friday at the New York University Medical Center. He was 67 and had lived on the Upper West Side for the last 30 years.
The cause was pneumonia, and he had heart surgery in December, said his son Marc.
Her mother’s obituary:
KAGAN, GLORIA GITTELMAN
Published: July 13, 2008
KAGAN—Gloria Gittelman Born April 29, 1930; Died on July 11, 2008. Cherished wife of the late Robert Kagan. Beloved mother of Marc, Elena, and Irving.
Unlike the left with Justice Scalia, we won’t be killing off a progressive justice just to get a court we favor.
It's all a matter of perspective. One man's (or woman's) disaster may be another man's blessing.
Rafael Edward “Ted” Cruz (born December 22, 1970) Age 46....
I like the age and life expectancy... as long as he is protected from the lefties who hate him.
“Is Ginsburg going on any retreats soon?”
Are you suggesting that there are “pillows waiting?” Turnabout would be “fair play!”
We don’t need another woman on the supreme Court. We need an American.
Kennedy, Ginsburg and Breyer will all go during Trump’s terms of office. I will bet that Kennedy and Ginsberg will “leave” during the first term either voluntarily or ‘involuntarily.” Trump’s replacements will be his greatest gift to our country as they will far outlive his eight years in office.
Or a nation’s blessing.
Disappointing, I know.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2009/05/sweet_justice.html
MAY 29 2009
Sonia Sotomayor, the 54-year-old federal judge currently serving on the 2nd Circuit, is poised to become the nation’s first Latina on the Supreme Court—and also the first justice with Type 1 diabetes. Her medical condition has sparked a debate over her suitability to serve on the high court. While Sotomayor’s diabetes is unlikely to affect her work in the near future, the potential for a catastrophic complication—by no means unique to her situation—highlights a serious deficiency in the nation’s oversight of Supreme Court justices.
The 50-year Harvard-based Medalist study also concluded that patients like Sotomayor “live without severe complications for an extreme duration of the disease.” As a result, Sotomayor’s health prospects are unlikely to be more concerning, for example, than those of Chief Justice John Roberts (who suffered a generalized seizure recently), Ruth Bader Ginsberg (who has battled two cancers), or Clarence Thomas (who is overweight). But, of course, there are no guarantees she’ll stay healthy. Though improbable, she (or another justice) could have a stroke, heart attack, or damage to blood vessels to the eyes, causing blindness.
in 1974, when Justice William O. Douglas had a stroke. In a 2000 article titled “Mental Decrepitude on the U.S. Supreme Court,” David Garrow reviewed 15 similar cases of justices who continued to serve on the high court while demented, addicted to drugs, or otherwise mentally incapacitated. Most recently, in 2004 Susan Okie argued in the New England Journal of Medicine that then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist was less-than-forthcoming about his deadly thyroid cancer, which may have compromised his judicial abilities.
The fundamental problem is that the Supreme Court is entirely self-governing, unlike any other governmental body. The president is subject to the 25th Amendment, which provides a clear procedure to remove him from office should he become unable to “discharge the powers and duties” assigned. Since 1980, federal judges must answer to complaints charging them with being too ill to make decisions—but the Supreme Court is immune from that law.
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Ginsburg Has Surgery for Pancreatic Cancer
By ADAM LIPTAKFEB. 5, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/washington/06ginsburg.html
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent surgery at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York on Thursday for what was apparently early-stage pancreatic cancer, according to a statement released by the Supreme Court.
The surgery followed the discovery of a lesion during an annual checkup in late January at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. A scan revealed a small tumor, approximately one centimeter across, in the center of the pancreas, the court’s statement said.
Justice Ginsburg was treated for colon cancer in 1999.
According to the American Cancer Society, pancreatic cancer has one of the lowest five-year survival rates, at about 5 percent over all for all stages.
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I know, it's about as close to a death sentence as you can get. It took my Dad in a few months, and a family friend in 3 weeks. I can't believe she survived this long. However, I'm glad she did, or Obama would have gotten another pick.
I just realized that we have a very unhealthy group of SC Justices right now.
Anyone ever read the book “Illuminati” by Larry Burkett (Excellent Christian author)?
It’s a fiction book where the president has an accident happen that kills off all the supreme court justices who disagree with him politically. The year is 2001 and the world is on the brink of economic collapse as the Illuminati, a deadly secret organization, succeeds in placing one of their people in the office of the presidency of the United States, gaining control of world events.
I everybody aware that Neil Gorsuch is living in Boulder Colorado, aka, The Republic of Boulder? Hope this isn’t a red flag.
Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg Gets Heart Stent
http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20141126/ginsburg-heart-stent
Trump will have a GOP Senate for at least four years. The Senate map for 2018 makes it downright impossible for Dems to take over.
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